Gabriel Orozco Black Kites (Papalotes negros), 1997 Black Kites was made after Orozco experienced a major medical emergency. He decided...
Gabriel Orozco Black Kites (Papalotes negros), 1997 Black Kites was made after Orozco experienced a major medical emergency. He decided...

Gabriel Orozco Black Kites (Papalotes negros), 1997

Graphite on skull
8 1/2 x 5 x 6 1/4 in.
(21.6 x 12.7 x 15.9 cm)
(5475)


Black Kites was made after Orozco experienced a major medical emergency. He decided he wanted to create a piece using a slow and solitary process and thus began the methodical procedure of covering a real human skull in a dense and shiny graphite grid, similar to a checkerboard. The work is a meditation on our own fate and mortality.

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