Gabriel Orozco's Corplegados
Education: High School

Gabriel Orozco's Corplegados

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Graphic Design
The High School of Art & Design, New York

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to have worked in collaboration with The High School of Art & Design’s Graphic Design teacher Andrew Bencsko and his senior class around the exhibition Spacetime which took place at MGG NY from 2021 - 2023.

Rising seniors had the opportunity to see an ongoing exhibit of Gabriel Orozco's work at Marian Goodman Gallery before the summer break. Taking inspiration from Orozco's Corplegados series, where the artist would work on a life size sheet of paper folded in half four times during his travels, the designers were supplied a sheet of drawing paper measured to their height. They were asked to design their own Corplegados based on a personal journey of their choosing that could be literal or abstract in it execution and were allowed to use any variety of media. 

The final works were included in the Graphic Design Exhibit taking place at the High School of Art and Design from February 27 through March 13, 2023. 

Student Work

Gabriel Orozco's Corplegados

The Corplegados series are an extension of Gabriel Orozco's notebooks. The word roughly translates to mean 'folded bodies'. The works...
Installation View at Marian Goodman Gallery, 2011
The Corplegados series are an extension of Gabriel Orozco's notebooks. The word roughly translates to mean "folded bodies". The works are life-size sheets of paper that Orozco would fold up and take with him on his travels between 2007 and 2011. Orozco drew, painted and wrote all over the surfaces of the paper. The application and layering of the various media permeated the paper and soaked through to the back side forming an unpredictable, ghostly reflection of the front. They were originally exhibited in double sided glass frames so one could view both sides of the paper. Each drawing transitioned from bright, colorful, painterly gestures to linear, geometric shapes and a muted palette. These contrasts reflected the different psychological and environmental changes to which the artist and his drawings were exposed to over extended periods of time.
Gabriel Orozco Dark Dragon, New York, Lac Du Bourdon, 2009-2011 Gouache, acrylic, pastel on paper Paper: 72 x 37 3/4...
Gabriel Orozco
Dark Dragon, New York, Lac Du Bourdon, 2009-2011
Gouache, acrylic, pastel on paper
Paper: 72 x 37 3/4 in. (182.9 x 95.9 cm)
Frame: 80 7/8 x 46 1/4 x 1 5/8 in. (205.4 x 117.5 x 4.1 cm)
Gabriel Orozco Observatory Plan, Roca Bianca, New York, 2009/2010 Gouache, pastel, graphite, photo collage on paper 72 7/8 x 39...
Gabriel Orozco
Observatory Plan, Roca Bianca, New York, 2009/2010
Gouache, pastel, graphite, photo collage on paper
72 7/8 x 39 in.
(185.1 x 99.06 cm)
Gabriel Orozco Forehead Drain, Roca Bianca 2009, New York 2010 Gouache, acrylic, pastel, graphite, ink, photo collage on paper 72...
Gabriel Orozco
Forehead Drain, Roca Bianca 2009, New York 2010
Gouache, acrylic, pastel, graphite, ink, photo collage on paper
72 1/4 x 38 in. (183.5 x 96.5 cm)
Gabriel Orozco Blackbirds in the trees, Lac Du Bourdon, 2010 Gouache, charcoal on paper 72 1/4 x 38 1/2 in....
Gabriel Orozco
Blackbirds in the trees, Lac Du Bourdon, 2010
Gouache, charcoal on paper
72 1/4 x 38 1/2 in.
(183.52 x 97.79 cm)
“Corplegado:  uncertain, contradictory, fragmented, dispersed, analytical, hypothetical. Hesitation against certainty. Conscious construction of an unconscious operation. […] Identity. Existential documents. Skins. Split personalities. Lines of self-realization. Empty eyes. Eyes as holes. Impression of the reflection. Existential exploration. Layers of development time. Substantial presence. Overlapping worlds. Fragmented realities. Collapsing bodies.”
–Gabriel Orozco in Written Matter (2012), p.334

WRITTEN MATTER

Written Matter. (This link opens in a new tab). presents selections from the notebooks of Gabriel Orozco. These texts, sketches,...

Written Matter presents selections from the notebooks of Gabriel Orozco. These texts, sketches, and images from notebooks spanning 1992 to 2012 offer insights into Orozco's artmaking process, revealing his thinking, methods, and rationales. The texts, translated from the original handwritten Spanish, offer personal truisms, compelling insights, observations, and notes on process and method, forming a subterranean stream that runs parallel to his artwork.

The notebooks are fundamental to Orozco's work, serving as a travelogue and personal dictionary that, when consulted, allow him to resume the trajectory of his thought anywhere. Because Orozco chooses not to work in a studio, his notebooks act as a different kind of studio space, on paper and bound between covers.

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