A color photograph of Ancient American ruins.

"1,2,3,4….,"

Date1993

Mediumdye destruction print on Ilfochrome paper

DimensionsImage: 12 7/16 × 18 11/16 inches (31.6 × 47.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Matted: 24 × 30 inches (61 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 24 × 30 inches (61 × 76.2 cm)

Portfolio/Series"Printed Matter Photography Portfolio II: Landscapes, 1996-98."

Credit LineGift of Zoë and Joel Dictrow.

Object number2013.4.8

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Copyright© Gabriel Orozco, Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextMexican artist Gabriel Orozco does not label himself a photographer. Instead, his artistic practice glides between sculpture, photography, installation, and painting, denying easy categorization. This variety is furthered by his international mindset as he travels between his studios in New York, Paris, and Mexico City. Orozco’s work is often focused on the quotidian, altering found materials in everyday life to create surprising and poetic moments captured as sculptural objects or a photograph. His photographs are usually modestly-sized and printed in color and rarely feature human forms, instead focusing on landscape and the detritus in front of him as if to point it out to the unobservant passerby. 1,2,3,4 is a photograph of a historic, crumbling architectural form. The scene feels ordinary, yet evokes an uncanny stillness from the absence of human life. The dilapidated structure evidences nature’s inevitable reclamation of the land.

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