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De La Torre's portfolio
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(Don Bergfors) Waiting for Gabriel Orozco, San Diego Airport, from the series “10 Artists, 10 Drivers, 10 Cities”
2005 - 07
C-Print
48” x 60”.
Description: “10 Artists, 10 Drivers, 10 Cities” is a series of 10 drivers at 10 different Airports waiting for 10 famous artists. A Limousine Service Driver is patiently waiting, with a sign in their hands for one of the ten artists that will never arrive. The artists include Gabriel Orozco, Olafour Elliason and Santiago Sierra, among others. The artists’ names are selected based on their international presence within contemporary art spaces including museums, galleries, publications and art events in the last five years. The Process involves hiring a Limousine Driver to go to the Airport and pick up a given artist. Drivers are expected to arrive 5 minutes before the arrival and wait for10 minutes. These photos will not be staged. The driver is real and he believes the artist he is waiting for will more likely arrive. Like in Waiting for Godot where two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. However he never comes and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves.
2005 - 07
C-Print
48” x 60”.
Description: “10 Artists, 10 Drivers, 10 Cities” is a series of 10 drivers at 10 different Airports waiting for 10 famous artists. A Limousine Service Driver is patiently waiting, with a sign in their hands for one of the ten artists that will never arrive. The artists include Gabriel Orozco, Olafour Elliason and Santiago Sierra, among others. The artists’ names are selected based on their international presence within contemporary art spaces including museums, galleries, publications and art events in the last five years. The Process involves hiring a Limousine Driver to go to the Airport and pick up a given artist. Drivers are expected to arrive 5 minutes before the arrival and wait for10 minutes. These photos will not be staged. The driver is real and he believes the artist he is waiting for will more likely arrive. Like in Waiting for Godot where two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. However he never comes and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves.
(Dan Mancillas) Waiting for Olafur Eliasson, Salt Lake City Airport, from the series “10 Artists, 10 Drivers, 10 Cities”
2005 - 07
C-Print
48” x 60”.
Description: “10 Artists, 10 Drivers, 10 Cities” is a series of 10 drivers at 10 different Airports waiting for 10 famous artists. A Limousine Service Driver is patiently waiting, with a sign in their hands for one of the ten artists that will never arrive. The artists include Gabriel Orozco, Olafour Elliason and Santiago Sierra, among others. The artists’ names are selected based on their international presence within contemporary art spaces including museums, galleries, publications and art events in the last five years. The Process involves hiring a Limousine Driver to go to the Airport and pick up a given artist. Drivers are expected to arrive 5 minutes before the arrival and wait for10 minutes. These photos will not be staged. The driver is real and he believes the artist he is waiting for will more likely arrive. Like in Waiting for Godot where two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. However he never comes and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves.
2005 - 07
C-Print
48” x 60”.
Description: “10 Artists, 10 Drivers, 10 Cities” is a series of 10 drivers at 10 different Airports waiting for 10 famous artists. A Limousine Service Driver is patiently waiting, with a sign in their hands for one of the ten artists that will never arrive. The artists include Gabriel Orozco, Olafour Elliason and Santiago Sierra, among others. The artists’ names are selected based on their international presence within contemporary art spaces including museums, galleries, publications and art events in the last five years. The Process involves hiring a Limousine Driver to go to the Airport and pick up a given artist. Drivers are expected to arrive 5 minutes before the arrival and wait for10 minutes. These photos will not be staged. The driver is real and he believes the artist he is waiting for will more likely arrive. Like in Waiting for Godot where two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. However he never comes and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves.
Untitled
2008-02-11 20:16:50
2008-02-11 20:16:50
Untitled
2008-02-11 20:20:12
2008-02-11 20:20:12
Paisaje_03, from the series "Paisaje"
2008-02-11 20:22:01
2008-02-11 20:22:01
Paisaje_04, from the series "Paisaje"
2005 - 07
Lambda print mounted on plexi
33" x 44"
Description: Paisajes is a series of black and white photographs. The photographs are of landscapes of some of the 900 assembly plants in the city of Tijuana. Tijuana has nearly 50 Industrial Parks and more than 900 assembly plants, “maquiladoras”. Most of them are transnational. The first Industrial Parks were installed in the outskirts in the 1960/70s. Due to the fast growth of the city, Tijuana grows 1 acre a day, the Industrial Parks are now simultaneously Residential Zones. Nevertheless the mechanisms that are used for the construction of such Industrial Parks deny the human presence in these areas. Bulldozers, caterpillars and other types of heavy machinery settle in the “colonias” shaping hills and valleys allowing the construction of transnational assembly plants in which filters, batteries, cassettes, TV sets, oxygen masks, clothes, toys, keyboards, etc. are assembled. With the aid of the computer the photographs have been altered: some of the houses have been erased, windows, doors and fences also have been erased from the assembly plants to emphasize their sculptural aspect and to mimic the language used by those who design and install the Industrial Parks
2005 - 07
Lambda print mounted on plexi
33" x 44"
Description: Paisajes is a series of black and white photographs. The photographs are of landscapes of some of the 900 assembly plants in the city of Tijuana. Tijuana has nearly 50 Industrial Parks and more than 900 assembly plants, “maquiladoras”. Most of them are transnational. The first Industrial Parks were installed in the outskirts in the 1960/70s. Due to the fast growth of the city, Tijuana grows 1 acre a day, the Industrial Parks are now simultaneously Residential Zones. Nevertheless the mechanisms that are used for the construction of such Industrial Parks deny the human presence in these areas. Bulldozers, caterpillars and other types of heavy machinery settle in the “colonias” shaping hills and valleys allowing the construction of transnational assembly plants in which filters, batteries, cassettes, TV sets, oxygen masks, clothes, toys, keyboards, etc. are assembled. With the aid of the computer the photographs have been altered: some of the houses have been erased, windows, doors and fences also have been erased from the assembly plants to emphasize their sculptural aspect and to mimic the language used by those who design and install the Industrial Parks