The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 6, 2024
Tool Bones I-VI
2013
(Mexican, b. 1967)
Location: not on view
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Each component of this artwork contains tools covered in fabric and white plaster.Description
Damián Ortega's Tool Bones I-VI comprises six objects. Each component is created with interlaced tools that are covered in fabric and white plaster, resulting in forms that resemble bones. Through this process, Ortega reconfigures ordinary items into organic-abstract objects that evoke questions of mortality and human existence.- 2013 - purchased from the artist, Damián Ortega, by Cleveland Museum of Art
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.90