Materia en Reposo II (Brasil)

2004 - Photography (Photography)

27,9 x 35,6 cm

Damián Ortega

location: Mexico City
location: Berlin
year born: 1967
gender: male
nationality: Mexican
home town: Mexico City, Mexico

Damián Ortega’s work explores specific economic, aesthetic and cultural situations and in particular how regional culture affects commodity consumption. He began his career as a political cartoonist and his art has the intellectual rigour and sense of playfulness often associated with his previous occupation. He first came to wider attention with Cosmic Thing at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, consisting of a Volkswagen beetle dismantled and suspended from the ceiling, an ironic deconstruction of a cult object of Mexico’s consumer society.


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Related artist(s) to: Damián Ortega » Anish Kapoor, » Carlos Amorales, » Damien Hirst, » Gary Hume, » Jeff Wall, » Olafur Eliasson, » Sergey Bratkov, » Subodh Gupta, » Abraham Cruzvillegas, » Akram Zaatari

Pipe Opening
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Jeff Wall

2002

As suggested by its title, Pipe Opening (2002) depicts a hole in a wood wall exposed by the removal of a pipe...

Wright Imperial Hotel
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Abraham Cruzvillegas

2004

Wright Imperial Hotel (2004) is a sort of bow and arrow made out of feathers, a São Paulo phone book, and other materials...

Useless Wonder
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Carlos Amorales

2006

This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006)...

Why fear the future?
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Carlos Amorales

2005

Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, this deck of cards is a selection of images from Carlos Amorales’s Liquid Archive...

From Useless Wonder 04
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Carlos Amorales

2007

This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006)...

El hombre que hizo todas las cosas prohibidas
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Carlos Amorales

2014

Carlos Amorales, based in Mexico City, works in many media and combinations thereof, including video, drawing, painting, photography, installation, animation, and performance...

A girl and her brother. Studio Sherazade. 1960s
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Akram Zaatari

1960

“When you position your hand on someone’s shoulder, your shoulders become straight and horizontal...

Anonymous. Madani,’s parent’s home. The Studio, 1949-50
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Akram Zaatari

1950

“Other photographers used to send me negatives of cross-eyed people, asking me to retouch them...

"Baqari’s wife", Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon
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Akram Zaatari

1957

“These are negatives that were scratched because of a jealous husband from the Baqari family, who never let his wife out by herself...

Anonymous, Studio Sherhazade
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Akram Zaatari

1950

“In the 1980s I started using coloured paper backdrops, one of which was yellow...

"Anonymous (Jradi and a friend)", Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon
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Akram Zaatari

1972

“The two men were relatives and both were in the Lebanese Army.” Hashem El Madani...

"Two young men from Aadloun", Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon
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Akram Zaatari

1966

“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...

Anonymous, Madani's parents home
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Akram Zaatari

1950

“While taking the picture it was challenging to make the boys sit properly without moving...

Two Palestinian Sisters
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Akram Zaatari

1950

Hashem El Madani, a studio photographer in Saida, began working in 1948...

"Najm", Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon
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Akram Zaatari

1956

“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...

"Anonymous", Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon
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Akram Zaatari

1970

“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...