Carlos Amorales

Born:
1970
Residence:
Mexico, Mexico
Nationality:
Mexican
Trust:
APT London
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  • An essential guide to the 57th edition of the event that has the whole art world talking, featuring new work by Mark Bradford and an exhibition curated by trolls

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  • Highlights of the National Pavilions in the Arsenale.

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  • The most important global art event of the year is upon us, as thousands descend upon the slowly submerging islands in the Venetian Lagoon to view the microcosm of the art world that is the 57th Venice Biennale. In keeping with the theme of the exhibition by this year’s curator, Christine Macel, Viva Arte Viva, in which she “orientate[s] the Biennale toward the art and the artists,” we are looking at the most sensational National Pavilions through the artists whose art will activate them.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Last month’s Art Fair Philippines exemplified a trend seen throughout Manila, where galleries, non-profit art spaces and museums are taking bold risks and forging ahead with a more worldly perspective

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  • This year, Art Fair Philippines celebrates its 5th edition, which will welcome 46 galleries from the region and offer an engaging program of talks, including “Curating across Asia”, bringing together MACBA director Ferran Barenblit, writer Sarah Thornton and curator Diana Campbell Betancourt.

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  • As ZsONA MACO came to a close Sunday evening, tens of thousands of Mexican citizens were expected to rally in Mexico City’s streets to protest portions of U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda that they believe will negatively impact their country.

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  • The 2017 Venice Biennale, opening on May 13, has revealed the list of one hundred and twenty artists participating in the international exhibition “Viva Arte Viva,” curated by Christine Macel.

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  • In her first solo exhibition in North America, Aleksandra Domanović brings together a body of work that spans her practice, including her ongoing paper stacks and video and installation work at the Plug In ICA.

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  • The Guggenheim’s “Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today,” presented by the UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, is a sweeping survey of 37

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  • The Guggenheim’s “Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today,” presented by the UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, is a sweeping survey of 37

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  • Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show, hosts a nightly program at the Oceanfront, organized by Creative Time.

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  • The artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial, Lewis Biggs, has announced the names of 60 leading and emerging artists who will participate

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  • Discussions with Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and readings of wall panels within his exhibition of computer-collage drawings, titled “Discarded

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  • In 2008, the city of Liverpool was named Europe's Capital of Culture. The Liverpool Biennial's chief executive and artistic director

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  • In conjunction with the newly reopened Israel Museum comes an impressive display of contemporary art in the form of the exhibit “Still/Moving,”

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  • In 2007 and 2009, Mexico City-based artist Carlos Amorales created two huge installations, both entitled Black Cloud. The works positioned thousands

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BIOGRAPHY

 

Carlos Amorales was born in 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico, where he continues to live and work.

Amorales uses a broad range of media, including performance, animation and installation. His narrative-based practice often involves recounting stories into which he weaves characteristic symbols drawn from his native Mexican culture. His works are dark, poetic fantasies that allegorically represent scenarios of social injustice. They depict pared-down worlds in which the forces of good and evil face off under the same mask, whether in the guise of silhouettes against a graphic backdrop, or real lucha libre wrestlers fighting inside a live ring, as with "Amorales vs. Amorales" (1999).

The artist describes himself as a director. For "Dark Mirrors" (2005), he commissioned an animator and a score-composer to produce a video using his personal archive of images. His practice also includes running a production studio as well as the record label ‘Nuevos Ricos’.

Carlos Amorales has recently presented solo exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2010), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009), Sala Verónicas, Murcia (2009), MeetFactory Gallery, Prague (2009), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (2008), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2008) and at Yvon Lambert, London (2008).

His work has been shown as part of “A Certain State of the World?” at Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow (2009), Performa 07, New York (2007), “Historias Animadas” at Caixa Forum, Barcelona, and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain and Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France (2006), “Propria Visión / Our Vision” at The Queens Museum of Art, New York (2006) and “The Pantagruel Syndrome”, T3 – Torinotriennale tremusei, Turin (2005).

His major performance project with traditional Mexican wrestlers has been exhibited in the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Modern, London (2003). The same year he represented The Netherlands in the exhibition “We are the World” as part of the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice (2003).

Carlos Amorales is represented by Yvon Lambert, Paris, London and New York, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City.


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