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Exhibition of new work by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco at Marian Goodman Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Gabriel Orozco which will be on view through October 15th. This is Orozco’s first solo exhibition to follow his recently completed retrospective tour that began in December 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and traveled to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and ended at the Tate Modern, London, in May of this year. Two new bodies of work are introduced in this exhibition. In chronological order, the first, titled Corplegados, is a series of large format drawings realized over the course of the last four years as a private, intimate activity amidst busy preparation for his retrospective. The Corplegados, or literally ‘folded-bodies’, are all purposefully life-size. Orozco folded the paper four times in halves to become portable documents which accompanied him on