id: 171232 accession number: 2013.90 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.90 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:40.909000 Tool Bones I-VI, 2013. Damián Ortega (Mexican, b. 1967). Plaster; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller 2013.90 title: Tool Bones I-VI title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2013 creation date earliest: 2013 creation date latest: 2013 current location: creditline: Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller copyright: --- culture: Mexico, 21st century technique: plaster department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Damián Ortega (Mexican, b. 1967) - artist Lives in Mexico City and Berlin --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE 2013 - purchased from the artist, Damián Ortega, by Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Each component of this artwork contains tools covered in fabric and white plaster. digital 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES