Damián Ortega
Organón 13
Lot closes
June 7, 03:36:00 AM GMT
Estimate
90,000 - 100,000 USD
Current Bid
75,000 USD
2 Bids
Reserve met
Lot Details
Description
Damián Ortega
b. 1967
Organón 13
Executed in 2024.
Pigmented concrete (7 pieces)
15 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (40 x 40 x 40 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York
Damián Ortega (b. 1967, Mexico City, Mexico; lives in Mexico City) makes sculptures, installations, performances, and films that alter everyday objects and familiar processes, revealing the interdependence of component parts within social systems and machines. Inspired by the walls of Inca structures, Organón 13 explores the materiality of concrete and its transformation from a flexible, almost organic state into geological, fossilized matter. In 2007, the MCA presented Ortega’s work in the group exhibition Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, and his work is in the MCA Collection. Solo exhibitions of Ortega’s work have been presented by Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Museu de Arte Moderna, Río de Janeiro, Brazil; and Garage Museum, Moscow.