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Gabriel Orozco
The Heart of the River (El corazón del río)1991

Not on view
Color photograph of a collapsed brick wall lying flat on graveled ground, with broken masonry fragments scattered nearby

Gabriel Orozco, The Heart of the River (El corazón del río), 1991, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Gabriel Orozco
Mexico, Veracruz, active United States, New York City, Madrid, Mexico City, born 1962
Title
The Heart of the River (El corazón del río)
Place Made
Mexico
Date Made
1991
Medium
Dye destruction print
Dimensions
Primary support: 15 7/8 × 20 in. (40.32 × 50.8 cm) Image: 12 1/2 × 18 5/8 in. (31.75 × 47.31 cm) Mat: 21 × 27 1/4 in. (53.34 × 69.22 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation
Accession Number
AC1996.109.2
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Copyright
© Gabriel Orozco