Gabriel Orozco on Energy and Technique in Artpress Interview

In a 1997 interview with Robert Storr published in Artpress, Gabriel Orozco discusses his artistic practice, which involves taking objects and moving them culturally and physically. Orozco, who studied at the Academia San Carlos in Mexico City, worked in Brazil where he befriended Cildo Meireles, Tunga, and Waltercio. The conversation covers the context of this activity, the place of conceptual art in Mexico, differences with Brazil, an exhibition by German artist Kiefer in Mexico City, and references to other artists in Orozco's own works. Orozco shares his views on the arrogance of Mexicans and the tendency of North Americans to generalize and view Southern countries through exoticism, not expecting abstract or conceptual art from them.