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Gabriel Orozco
Mexican artist
Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist. He gained his reputation in the early 1990s for his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation.
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In 1998, Francesco Bonami called Orozco "one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too."[1][2]
Biography
Early life and education
Orozco was born in 1962 in Veracruz, Mexico to Cristina Félix Romandía and Mario Orozco Rivera, a mural painter and art professor at the University of Veracruz.[citation needed] When Orozco was six, the family relocated to the San Ángel neighborhood of Mexico City so that his father could work with artist David Alfaro Siquieros on various mural commissions.
His father took him along to museum exhibitions and to work with him, during which time Orozco overheard many conversations about art and politics.
Orozco attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 a