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04-11-08
Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague solo show april 11 - july 13, 2008 Philadelphia Museum of Art tel: (215) 763-8100 Over the last decade, Carlos Amorales has developed a unique visual vocabulary that he has used and reused, both alone and in collaboration with other artists, in mediums ranging from drawing and animation to installation and performance. In his growing and multifaceted body of work, Amorales presents a personal view of the world in which familiar images and objects are capable of invoking collective experiences of anxiety and fear, and in so doing questions and critiques the nature of our daily certainties. Amorales’s fantasy worlds are inhabited by shadows of humans, birds, animals, and insects that coexist in ambiguous but invariably hostile surroundings. In these dark and inhospitable universes, the metamorphosis of humans into animals and of animals into humans occurs naturally, with shapes and forms merging with one another and evolving into threatening hybrids. These surreal visions are heavily influenced by gothic literature and mythological motifs, but are rooted in everyday reality. The result is a fragmented, |
 Faces, 2007, Direction by Carlos Amorales, Animation by Ivan Martinez Lopez, Music concept by Julián Lede, Digital animation after paper cutout plates, Duration; 11 minutes, 36 seconds. Courtesy Carlos Amorales and Yvon Lambert Gallery New York/Paris postapocalyptic vision of life at the beginning of the twenty-first century in which the distinctions between good and evil, normal and abnormal, human and animal are blurred. more information: www.philamuseum.org |
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Fundación/Colección Jumex | National Museum of Art | Mexico City the practice of everyday life curated by Frédéric Bonnet november 27, 2008 - march 15, 2009 12-04-08 |
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kurimanzutto in artforum Linda Yablonsky's article about our inauguration at scene & herd 12-03-08 |
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Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo | Mexico City Recursos incontrolables y otros desplazamientos naturales Curated by Olivier Debroise (1952-2008) group show 11-26-08 |
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