Gabriel Orozco – Poetically Addressed

Gabriel Orozco was born in Veracruz, Mexico.
His work explores philosophical problems, such as the concept of infinity, and evokes the poetry of chance connections through found materials or situations, that he alters then photographs to create surprising and often, creating humorous scenarios from the simple quotidian means. All presented with presence, power and intellectual rigor.

Orozco pays meticulous attention to what he calls the “liquidity of things” as seen in mundane and evanescent objects and elements of everyday life—the momentary fog on a polished piano top, a deflated football, tins of cat food balanced on watermelons, light through leaves, the screech of a tire, chess pieces on a chessboard, a ball of clay, an abandoned kite.
“People forget that I want to disappoint,” he has said. “I use that word deliberately. I want to disappoint the expectations of the one who waits to be amazed. When you make a decision someone is going to be disappointed because they think they know you. It is only then that the poetic can happen.”

He is fun & his name is John Baldessari

John Baldessari is a conceptual artist who has influence many other great artists, such as: Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and Barbara Kruger among others.
His work consists of synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language into visual juxtapositions that challenge ‘conceptual art’ meaning with wit and irony.
He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, explores it in sometimes delightful, sometimes poignant and almost always surprising and inventive ways by injecting humor and dissonance into his vernacular imagery.

 

No face Yi Hsin Tzeng

YI HSIN TZENG collects large amounts of international commercial images from her daily visual environment. The action of altering and appropriating not only establishes her regurgitated aesthetics but also proclaims a regained control of the image.
She see herself as a loyal painter, who looks for various media and approaches to fulfill her intention. Her current work mainly investigates the shape and the color of human desire by the approach of combining found images or objects with the playful mark-making. This body of work usually presents in the form of organic liquid, which she name “Flows.” “Flows” not only represent the invisible relationship between figures, but also projects her grotesque fantasies or cynical comments towards the use and iconography of images. Under this colorful sugar-coated appearance, she tries to establish a regurgitated aesthetic, an ambiguous paradise—seductive, disturbing, sweet and humorous at the same time.