Fallen Chair

Fallen Chair
Artist: Damian Ortega
Country: Mexico


Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Ortega is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. This exhibition, the first-ever survey of Ortega’s work, shows the arc of his artistic output with a range of sculpture, installation, video, and photography.

In Ortega’s work, objects are never allowed to rest they are pulled apart, suspended, or rearranged, calling attention to the dynamism of the world around us and the hidden poetry in the everyday. A former political cartoonist, Ortega brings a subtle, incisive wit to his surprising manipulations of familiar, humble materials—bricks, old tools, Coca-Cola bottles,  tortillas, and even a Volkswagen Beetle are assembled and reassembled in playful and imaginative ways.

Damian Ortega is an artist known for taking things apart and putting them back together again. "I'm interested in those everyday attempts to produce meaning" Damian Ortega.
With this piece Damian has created meaning, the visual meaning of a fallen chair becoming upright like Duchamp's Nude descending staircase,
Damian has rendered into reality, this movement.
His work is the product of a restless mind, one that like a child, has not settled into acceptance but questions everything, he is an amazing artist.