CARLOS AMORALES

Carlos Amorales (born Mexico City 1970) currently lives and work in Mexico City.

He uses graphic production as a tool to develop linguistic structures and alternative working models that allow new forms of interpretation and foster collectivity. In his projects, Amorales examines identity construction processes, proposes a constant re signification of forms present in his work, and provokes a clash between art and pop culture.

Since 1998 Carlos Amorales has been collecting a series of digital graphics into a totality he calls Liquid Archive. Drawing upon a variety of sources such as magazines, books, the Internet, and, above all, photographs that he had taken, the artist has assembled letters of the alphabet, abstractions, images of animals, insects, trees, airplanes, portraits of people, various objects, but also dripping blood, hair, masks, and spider webs. Utilizing the technique of rotoscoping, in which the designer’s hand intervenes in a given image, Amorales simplifies the initially heterogeneous material into silhouettes and, through the use of the computer, transforms them into vectorial graphics. Precisely because it is based on images that are in reality pure mathematical sequences and can be further manipulated, the artist describes his archive as “liquid.”

Selected past exhibitions:

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Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, DK (2023)

Queensland Art Gallery, QGOMA, Brisbane, AUS (2022)

Stedelijk, Amsterdam, Holland (2020)

Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, Switzerland (2017)

De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, Holland (2016)

Guggenheim Museum, New York , USA (2014)

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2013)

Tate Liverpool, UK (2009)

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2007)

MoMA, NY, USA (2007)

Selected public collections:

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Tate Modern London, UK

Museum of Modern Art di New York, USA

Walker Art Center di Minneapolis, USA

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland

Fundación/Colección Jumex, Messico