Video: "Disassembled" sculptures by Damian Ortega
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
How does the world work and what does it consist of? As a child, many of us tried to find the answer to this question, disassembling toys, alarm clocks into the smallest details - in a word, everything that could be disassembled. Mexican Damian Ortega is no longer a child, but his methods of cognizing the world are still the same: the sculptor disassembles various objects into their component parts, and then hangs them up in space - and the original installation is ready!
One of the most striking works of Ortega is an unnamed installation presented at the Cosmic Thing exhibition in the USA. To create it, the author disassembled his own Volkswagen Beetle into parts, and then hung all the elements in the correct order, but at some distance from each other. By the way, it would be nice to adopt this idea of Ortega for educational institutions where they study the device of cars: both very clearly and not at all boring in comparison with the diagrams in textbooks.
The author was so interested in the automotive topic that a few years later Damian demonstrated to the public what "Materialista" is - this is the Spanish name for transport transporting building materials.
Another piece made in a similar technique is the installation “Controller of the Universe”. True, the author did not have to disassemble anything here: he simply hung a lot of tools on a wire: saws, hammers, axes - thus creating a kind of frozen explosion.
Damian Ortega was born in Mexico City in 1967 and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His talent is recognized all over the world, as evidenced by his personal exhibitions at the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture (Paris), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), The Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Tate Modern (London), the Pampouli Art Museum (Belo -Orizonte, Brazil).
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