B.K. I
Artist
Gabriel Orozco
(Mexican, born 1962)
Date2004
MediumPigment print
DimensionsImage: 11 × 7 3/4 in. (27.9 × 19.7 cm)
Support: 12 × 10 in. (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Support: 12 × 10 in. (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of John Robertshaw III, 2014
Object number2014.7.5
DescriptionFrontal view of human skull with pattern of squares drawn on it in graphite.eMuseum Notes
This photograph presents a view of Orozco’s sculpture Black Kites (graphite on human skull), created in 1997 for the contemporary art festival Documenta X in Kassel, Germany. The organic irregularities of the human skull contrasts with the precise, geometric form imposed upon it by the artist. The obvious wear and yellowing of the skull – having survived a lifetime of use by its inhabitant – also contrasts with the black regularity of the grid the artist attempts to apply over its uneven surface.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- still lifes
- skull (skeleton component)
- deaths
- drawings
- patterns (design elements)
- sculptures
- graphite
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