EXHIBITION: GABRIEL OROZCO

The exhibition of Gabriel Orozco's works on paper and canvas, photography, installations and sculptures is currently shown in Tate Modern. Orozco's practice is a creative and inventive play with found objects which altered and reconfigured gain new meanings.

One of his signature works is La DS, reconfigured Citroen DS. The industrial functional object becomes a static sculpture. The act of transformation deprives the object of its original function and at the same time emphasises its inherent quality of speed through its new shape.

One of the main themes of Orozco's practice is the sense of transience and the ephemeral, which can be seen in the series of photographs attempting to capture fleeting moments or in the installations, for example, Chicotes 2010, the installation of burst tyres collected from along Mexican highways.

In Orozco's works humble everyday objects and situations gain aesthetics which viewers are invited to recognize and reassess.

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EXHIBITION: JOHN STEZAKER

Whitechapel Gallery features an exhibition of John Stezaker's art, collages made out of movie stills, vintage postacards and book illustrations.

One of the characteristic qualities of Stezaker's practice is the use of the contrast, juxtaposing qualities and elements, for instance, black and white /colour, male/female, presence/absence.

Stezaker's artworks make an impact on the viewers due to their characteristic quality of simplicity and familiar references to pop culture and symbolism which evoke instant associations. The titles also play an important role in reading an image as they define, summerise, the subject matter and prioritise a certain interpretation.

The titles of the images: Tabula  Rasa, Love, Bridge, Untitled.

Exhibition Book (2010) John Stezaker. London: Ridinghouse and Whitechapel Gallery.