October 17, 2010

Damian Ortega

24 september 2010

Damián Ortega: The Independent
New commission for The Curve, Barbican Art Centre, London
15 October 2010 - 16 January 2011
The Curve

Over the period of a month, from mid-September, acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega is working in The Curve creating new works on a regular basis in response to aspects of the daily news.

Each day he is taking inspiration from a newspaper; whether a news item, a photographic story or graphics selected from local, national or international press which he translates into a physical interpretation, be it a sculpture, installation, proposition or prototype for a future project. Over the calendar month the works will accumulate in the gallery to become both a sculptural chronicle of a particular period of time – and a dynamic reinterpretation of the notion of an art commission.

Damián Ortega is one of the leading sculptors of his generation. His Barbican commission follows important solo shows at ICA Boston (2009) and Centre Pompidou (2008), White Cube (2007) and Tate Modern (2005). He began his career as a political cartoonist before he turned to art, and the development of his characteristically ‘mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction’.
Damián Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City and currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany.