Orozco´s whale to Visit NY MoMA

 

After having been hung by cable wires in 2006, during the very commented inauguration of the Vasconcelos megalibrary, the first of two fins of the grey whale?s skeleton, intervened with black lead lines by plastic artist Gabriel Orozco, have been dismounted.

 

With the disassembly and packaging g of the piece, named Mobile Matrix, it will start a journey to New York by air, divided in six parts, to be reassembled and exhibited as part of the Orozco retrospective that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will organize from December 8th to March 2010.

 

This retrospective into the artists more tan 20 years of work, is the second individual exhibit for a Mexican creator at the MoMA, after the one organized to celebrate painter and muralist Diego Rivera during the 30?s

 

The artwork is valued at an estimated 3 million pesos and all the moving expenses, including insurance and specialists? fees, workers and functionaries are being taken care of by the museum as is customary with loans from one institution to another and according to international agreements.

 

The grey whales? skeleton, which will be back at the Vasconcelos megalibrary by the end of March and the beginning of April 2010, was found in Isla Arena, Baja California Sur, on February 2006.

 

Parts of the skeleton were reassembled with a metal structure; it?s composed of 169 bones and is over 11 meters long and weighs 1,169 thousand kg.

 

Orozco?s intervention consisted of circles and graphic curves over the skeleton in order to represent, according to information given by INBA, "the movement and sound that whales make".

 

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/11/14/index.php?section=cultura&article=a05n2cul