Carlos Amorales
With his large-scale exhibition project Nuevos Ricos, Carlos Amorales (born in Mexico City in 1970) is presenting an overview of this important and thematically interconnected artistic period for the first time. Amorales’ œuvre includes performance, installation, drawing, animation and video. Back in 1999, the artist began his Liquid Archive. He initially set up this digital picture archive solely as a system for organising his pictorial material but subsequently developed it into an inexhaustible source of pictures and a central part of his oeuvre. His multifaceted work with this archive makes the artistic work not only immediately recognizable as a Carlos Amorales production, but also attests to the visual singularity of his art. In the form of a database the Liquid Archive serves as an artistic tool equipped with an immense pool of motifs and figures. In addition to the letters of the alphabet designed by Amorales in red and black colours, the archive contains a wealth of templates all of which contain nocturnal, dark, frightening aspects. With this figurative inventory, including hybrids, hermaphrodites, wolves, skulls and apes on their knees or creeping along, as well as insects, spiders, moths, birds, arid regions, fruitless trees and aircraft – modern birds – Carlos Amorales creates surreal, mythical, dark fantasy worlds which are analogous to horror films and thrillers – a dark parallel world to everyday existence.
NUEVOS RICOS
Kunsthalle Fridericianum: Carlos Amorales
