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Whether spitting toothpaste onto graph-paper, painting molecular-like semi-circles onto banknotes and photographs or mapping a checkerboard of distorted graphite squares over the surface of a human skull, a pervasive theme of much of Gabriel Orozco's art is the disruption of the grid. The grid is one of the most elemental and basic patterns of regular form. It is symbolic of logical thought and of mathematical progression. Its disruption by the interspersion of alternative but equally logical graphic systems (such as his atomist circle drawings) or supposedly random patterns (such as spat toothpaste for example) drawn from real life, translates his art into an open form game.
Horses Running Endlessly can in many ways be considered a physical manifestation, in game form, of this tendency in his art. A modified chessboard of 256 squares consisting of four rather than two different colours, Orozco's game also consists solely of knights (or horses). In chess, the knight has the strangest and most complex of moves moving in a single move a combination of one square forward and two to the side or alternatively two squares forward and one to the side. This makes the knight the only chess piece able to hop over the other pieces, to, theoretically at least, leave the two dimensionality of the grid, while manoeuvring within its structure and the structure of the game.
In Horses Running Endlessly Orozco has translated the laws and physical form of chess into a new open and potentially endless game that, strangely mixing the image of horses and the grid, both reflects and demonstrates the whimsical deconstructive logic at the heart of his art.
Horses Running Endlessly can in many ways be considered a physical manifestation, in game form, of this tendency in his art. A modified chessboard of 256 squares consisting of four rather than two different colours, Orozco's game also consists solely of knights (or horses). In chess, the knight has the strangest and most complex of moves moving in a single move a combination of one square forward and two to the side or alternatively two squares forward and one to the side. This makes the knight the only chess piece able to hop over the other pieces, to, theoretically at least, leave the two dimensionality of the grid, while manoeuvring within its structure and the structure of the game.
In Horses Running Endlessly Orozco has translated the laws and physical form of chess into a new open and potentially endless game that, strangely mixing the image of horses and the grid, both reflects and demonstrates the whimsical deconstructive logic at the heart of his art.