Renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco presents new exhibition in London in June

LONDON May 29 (People's Daily Online) —— Renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is to present a new solo exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery London running 13 June - 7 August 2015. He will present new paintings, scrolls, sculptures, drawings and photographs made over the last year in Japan and Mexico.

The itinerant nature of Gabriel Orozco's practice has been a defining characteristic of his career, providing him with inspiration through travel and immersion in foreign cultures. In 2015 he took up residence in Japan where the majority of this exhibition was created, including a series of 28 collages on traditional scrolls.

The scrolls are displayed both on the gallery walls and in their own individual wooden presentation boxes. While the compositions are characteristic of Orozco's complex formal experiments with interlocking circles, here they are constructed from appropriated swatches of traditional Japanese silks.

Experimenting with and altering found objects, Orozco crosses fluidly and fluently between varying modes of production. Something else that grew from his time spent in Japan are a series of wooden totemic sculptures made from drawing, painting and collaging found local materials. Made of components that are ubiquitously Japanese, comprised of the packaging material and other detritus of urban Tokyo, they are placed leaning against the walls and columns of the gallery space at varying intervals and heights.

Briony Fer said: "Orozco's working method involves making a few basic decisions about his materials and process which then allow him to avoid or at least minimize making the kinds of choices usually deemed ''aesthetic''. …he has consistently worked in this way, applying self-imposed limits at the same time as allowing the work to be open to the possibilities of chance and contingencies of place."

Orozco appropriates materials that had an original and specific functionality, objects that have their own set of rules and criteria which he deconstructs, reassembling them according to his own process and decisions. In speaking about his use of found materials, Orozco has stated:

"It is important to understand where these materials came from, what they were designed for and how I try to give their intrinsic structure a new way of functioning, metaphoric on the one hand, but also utilitarian and in some way real. To continue and extend the possibilities of the historical and mythic content of those objects and not just their mechanical structure."

Finding inspiration in the urban environment and domestic objects as well as the human body and nature, Orozco makes visible the poetry of serendipity. For him, photography has been a constant mediator of his nomadic lifestyle. His photographs balance the diaristic tone of an artist's notebook with an intense study of the world around him. Working with his iPhone allows Orozco the freedom to capture the beauty of a fleeting moment, chance encounter or spontaneous intervention into the landscape.

Gabriel Orozco was born in 1962 in Veracruz, Mexico. He lives and works between Paris, New York and Mexico City.