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From: Eva
Category: Reviews of worldwidereview
Date: 31 August 2004
Orozco's show wasn't great, but not bad enough to get so worked up about. I appreciate that's partly your point - that it's boring - but the show must nonetheless have stirred something to get you so worked up? Or was it the location of this work rather than just the quality, in a gallery for the special few; that Orozco was showing at the Serpentine which is a place for the "feted international startist"? Would you have liked more works if you'd seen fewer in an alternative art space? The exhibition did contain some good art, and there were small poetic moments. The geometric cut outs and paintings made from bank notes were attractive and it's always fun to subvert a country's monetary system. The squared up scull made me think about infinity, as grids tend to - not that I can totally get my head around infinity (bad pun, the worse for being pointed out) - while also echoing Holbein Ambassadors' anamorphous scull and also the Mexican day of the dead.
If you think I'm just pretending to find worth here or that I'm a conformist cretin, then you can fuck off and stop closing debate - because I did see it, so ha!
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