Since the early 1990s, Gabriel Orozco has forged a career marked by continuing innovation, roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting to create a heterogeneous body of objects that resists categorization. Published to accompany his first major museum retrospective, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition catalogue was designed by Pure+Applied in close collaboration with the artist himself. Conceived of as an astronomical guide to Orozco’s artistic universe, the book offers a comprehensive examination of two decades of the artist’s career. The design draws on the aesthetics of Orozco’s personal notebooks of sketches, drawings and collages, and reproductions of these notebooks, previously unseen by the public, are the primary visual leitmotif. The book explores Orozco’s career year by year, combining biographical information with focused discussions of selected objects, and includes the artist’s own reflections on the work he has made. The typeface Swift, originally designed as a newspaper font, is used to showcase Orozco’s vernacular sensibility.

A complex, highly aestheticized and conceptual body of work dovetails seamlessly with the scholarly essays that illuminate it. Only the edges intended to be seen are visible.