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Gabriel Orozco "Four Bicycles (There Is Always One Direction)".
Gabriel Orozco, “Four Bicycles (There Is Always One Direction)” (1994)
It’s interesting to consider how Orozco’s “Four Bicycles” functions differently than Ai Weiwei’s “Forever, Bicycles” (2003).
Orozco’s feels like a prototype for some kind of impossible extreme biking, a challenge to the idea of movement, as discussed in the audio track from MoMA above, whereas Ai’s 42-bicycle sculpture is more of an enclosed space, an re-construction of bicycle structures into something else, a denial of movement. Here is a nice list of other bike reconstruction artworks.
