GABRIEL OROZCO FLEURS FANTOMES

Mexican artist Gabriel Orozcos eponymous, in situ work at Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire is the subject of this book, an installatio n inspired by the torn and faded remains of wallpapers and tapestries he found there, in rooms closed off and forgotten since 1938. These modest vestiges and extremely fragile traces of a living history captured Orozcos imagination, and he was invited to devise a n artistic intervention as part of a special commission. He meticulously studied the palimpsest of the floral motifs, photographing them in orde...[Read more]