A brush with... Gabriel Orozco

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Gabriel Orozco talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. You can also watch this conversation as a video on the YouTube channels of The Art Newspaper and Bloomberg Connects. Gabriel Orozco was born in 1962, in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and lives today between Tokyo, Mexico City and New York. His work is grounded in a singular take on realism, using everyday objects and images and transforming them through complex forms of games or rigorous structural approaches. He has said that everything he does has to do with different forms of transportation, so that his materials become…