"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions"
Claude Levi-Strauss
I'm beginning the post today with a short, two minute video I made last December in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit was by an artist named Gabriel Orozco. This little segment was a monitor set up with a series of designs that had only a slight change to each design, that of color.
As you will see, a lot of change takes place in a design with a small color alteration. I showed this video today to my classes following a 15 minute film on Orozco documenting his work and artistic attitude.
More on him and the film after the video. Enjoy
The movie we watched on Gabriel Orozco was very interesting. He works in a wide variety of media.
He started out just walking around shooting pictures of interesting anomalies in his environment, such as cracks in the sidewalk, niches in walls, potholes, and "accidents" in the street. He got up next to a dumpster and discussed the need to "get intimate" with things around him. His wife discussed his placing items in the grocery out of context making them more interesting...box of cereal on fruit scale, potatoes sitting on writing tablets, and cat food sitting on watermelons. The kids got a kick out of that.
We watched the movie, took notes, and I had the students share with one another their favorite part of the presentation. Following is a series of 4 photos as I zoomed in on the designs shown in the video that hung on all four walls of another room in the gallery from floor to ceiling. Each design is about
9" X 12" in size.
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