Dimensions: image: 200 x 165 mm
Copyright: © Gabriel Orozco, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, NY | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: Gabriel Orozco, born in 1962, created this untitled piece held within the Tate Collections. Its dimensions are 200 by 165 millimeters. Editor: Immediately, I sense a kind of quietude. A meditative, almost melancholic feeling. It’s subtle, this square floating in a sea of white. Curator: The square's materiality is fascinating; the texture implies a process-based interaction. There's a tension created by the soft edges against the defined shape. Editor: It’s like looking at a faded memory. Or maybe a minimalist’s Rorschach test. What do you see in the square, beyond the formal elements? Curator: I perceive the artist's engagement with space, volume, and absence—a comment on the very nature of representation itself. Editor: Perhaps it's also about the power of suggestion. The empty square invites us to project our own meanings onto it. A mirror reflecting our inner landscape. Curator: An interesting thought. Ultimately, the artwork achieves a delicate balance between simplicity and complexity. Editor: Right, and that’s the magic, isn't it? It's quiet, yet profoundly engaging.
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This is one of a suite of twelve prints in a portfolio entitled Polvo Impreso meaning ‘printed dust’. The images were created by pressing layers of lint onto soft ground etching plates and printing the resulting texture, using the chine collé technique, onto natural Gampi (a very thin paper) laid on Fabriano Tiepolo paper. The portfolio was printed by Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica, USA and published by the artist and Editions & Artists’ Books Johan Deumens, Heemstede, the Netherlands. Tate’s copy is the twenty-second in the edition of twenty-five plus seven sets of artist’s proofs. Ten copies are bound books; the remaining fifteen are in loose portfolios, presented in a box. Tate’s is one of the loose portfolios.