Work of Damian Ortega

Work of Mexican artist Damian Ortega during the show entitled Tool Bit, in Kiev, on Thursday, February 10, 2011. Ortega’s exhibition highlights central works of his oeuvre in combination with two specially produced pieces for the PinchukArtCentre. Ortega will bring Nine Types of Terrain (2007), showing nine short 16mm projections of bricks falling like dominoes, in formations derived from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”, and also Project for Social Housing (2007), Moises (2007) and two new sculptures, which are connected to the Ukrainian metal industry. As the artist says, the selection of works is interesting in this show, because all of them are speaking of points of contact between the tool and matter. A crash, an impact, a knock between two different materials to make us understand and feel the instant of time, a second or a click of transformation from one thing to another. Photo by Andrey Skakodub / UNIAN