Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Work Documentation
1996-2012
Carlos Amorales
Abraham Gonzales 130, interior 15
Col. Juarez, Del. Cuauhtemoc, Represented by
C.P. 06600, Mexico City. carlos@nuevosricos.com Galeria Kurimanzutto in Mexico City and
Tel 5255 52769039 www.estudioamorales.com Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris
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Index of Works
Page 5: Supprimer, Modifier et Page 15 and 16: La Hora Nacional, 2010
Preserver, 2011
Page 17: Black Cloud Aftermath,
Page 28: Flames Maquiladora,
Page 6: We Will See How Every 2007- 2011 2001-03
thing Reverberates, 2012
Page 18: Black Cloud, 2007 Page 29:
Amorales vs Amorales,
Page 7: Vertical Earthquake, 2010 1999-2003
Page 19: Drifting Star, 2010
Page 8: Germinal, 2010 In Conversation With Ray
Page 30:
Page 10: Fructidor (from the French Page 21: Psicofonias, 2008
revolutionary calendar series),
2011 Page 22: Useless Wonder, 2006
Page 12 and 13: Throwing the Studio Out Page 26: Nuevos Ricos, 2003-09
of the Window 2010
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Coal Printing Machine Exhibited for the first time in a former coal mine in symbols that supposedly can invoke demons but which
2012 Belgium, this paper labyrinth generates from the out- also are considered to be the predecessors of the elec-
Installation: machine, coal, steel, epoxy paint and put by a machine which draws with coal. By making an tronic circuits that are in use today. The machine func-
analogy between the mine’s excavated underground and tions through the span of the exhibition, changing the
paper banners
the Hades, the drawings are repetitive patterns of magic structure of the labyrinth day by day.
Variable dimensions
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Supprimer, Modifier et Preserver An updated version of the French civil code was printed process, the erasable books became a tool to question the
2011 with graphite and then given to different lawyers to erase, meaning of social rules that where written centuries ago
Books made with graphite, paper and cardboard. modify or preserve the laws that each one considered but which are still in use: by erasing some rules a moment
fundamental for its own practice or for the law in general. of suspension was created.
Video projection on wall with sound.
By encouraging a discussion with the lawyers through this
Duration: 28’42”
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We Will See How Everything Reverberates A group of mobiles where installed in an art space by ting the mobiles sound as musical instruments. The piece
2012 rendering the hanging structures that Alexander Calder became a registration of the visitor’s attitudes and moods;
Steel, cooper and epoxy paint used for his mobiles but substituting the colorful abstract whereas some people are shy and subtle when hitting the
shapes with cooper cymbals. Beyond the act of contem- cymbals, others tend to be aggressive and loud.
Installation with variable dimensions
plation the public was given access to drum sticks for let-
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Vertical Earthquake Crooked metal rulers where made by following the patterns. A work that in one hand is a formal study about
2010 cracked lines that appeared in the buildings that collapsed how a chaotic form becomes organized by its constant ap-
Steel rulers, graphite on wall in Mexico City’s earthquake in 1985. The rulers hanged pliance, it is as well a reflection about how a moment of
from a nail on the wall and then pencil lines where traced social anarchy can be used to become a newer order.
Dimensions according to space
to form semi circles made by the repetition of the zigzag
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Germinal Newspaper juxtaposing images from Mexico City’s 1985 the catastrophe layered the first steps for a change that
2010 earthquake and anarchist texts from the last century. This took fifteen years to happen, in 2000. Based on pictures
Serigraphed journal on paper, graphite and paint. work proposes a reflection on how a two week lapse of of the broken buildings, the newspaper copies where
53 x 37,5 cm spontaneous anarchy was a profoundly influential after- drawn with chaotic pencil lines, as to stain the reader’s
math for challenging the then official party government in fingers.
Mexico. The citizen movement that was generated from
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Apple Jus Can The Tounge of the Death Experiments in placing the pictographic language into
2012 2012 popular media; one is a commission to intervene a jus
Graphic intervention on a commercial juice can. photo roman, silkscreen on paper. can which will be massively distributed, the other takes
a popular form like a photo roman which was edited with
Comissioned by a jus company in Mexico. 75 x 57 cm (29.53 x 22.44 in)
gruesome media images from those killed in the last six
years war against the Narco in Mexico.
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Fructidor (from the French revolutionary Playing Between the Lines The pictograms used as abstract motifs to, first, com-
calendar series) (musical score series) pose a series of twelve paintings symbolizing the French
2011 2011 revolutionary calendar and then an intervened page from
a musical score by Dvorak (Slavic Dances) where the
Laquer paint and wax varnish on canvas Ink on offset printed paper
pictograms interfere with the reading of the music.
240 x 180 cm (94.49 x 70.87 in) each 27.5 x 40 cm (10.83 x 15.75 in) each
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Vagabond in France and Belgium The abstract forms that where previously condensed from image. The forms being alphabetic pictograms, the text is
2011 the Liquid Archive are explored as typefaces in a series in fact a short story by writer Roberto Bolaño in which he
of posters that turn into a booklet. By downscaling the describes his searching for an artist and poet who worked
6 posters and silk screened book on paper
forms into the size of a printable type, the forms began with this sort of asemic writing in Belgium.
Posters: 120 x 180 cm each to play ambiguously as they can be perceived like text or
Book: 30 x 42 cm
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Throwing the Studio Out of the Window 2010 This installation implies the artists studio space as a archived into what resulted as a series of abstract shapes
Installation reproducible form in itself, rebuild in 1:1 scale inside a containing bits of those former renderings. The collab-
gallery, that contains the visual language that defines it. orative working process annihilated the Liquid Archive
Pencil on wall, wood, paint.
By transforming the digital information into actual ob- as an artistic resource, transforming it into a source with
Dimensions: jects and inviting 20 artists to overdraw the studio walls, open meaning.
a fragmentation of the figurative visual language was
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Throwing the Studio Out of the Window 1. Principal elements of the digital archive of images by chance.
2010 turned into drawing tools. 4. Tracing the forms with a pencil on the wall´s surface.
Views from the working process. 2. Appliance of the drawing tools by draing on the tool´s 5. Images resulting from filling up the gaps in between the
boders.. pencil lines.
3. Composition made by overlapping the drawing stencils
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Herramientas de Trabajo In this film different figures are tossed over a white It is in Arp’s last studio where a collection of hand thorn
2010 surface to create chance compositions. This work was papers are kept. Those papers where tossed over blank
16 mm B/W film transferred to digital video, conceived after a research invitation from the Cabaret surfaces for making chance compositions in a similar
Voltaire in Zurich to explore Hans Arp’s oeuvre and manner as how, now with digital means, the Liquid Ar-
without sound
personal archives in different museums and foundations. chive was used.
One channel video projection, 12’ 15”
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La Hora Nacional A stop motion like animation film resulted from a two to the order of his own archive of images and propose an
year research into the Pre-Colombian collection of a alternative reading of the national cultural heritage. To
2010
private museum in the state of Puebla, Mexico. After overcome the dramatic representation of this historical
16 mm color film transferred to noticing that the collection wasn’t scientifically ordered art crafts in museums (zenith light on colorless terra-cotta)
digital video, with sound but arranged by nationalistic ideological conventions, the the figures where immersed in color paint, radically trans-
One channel video projection, 5’ 59” artist decided to make replicas, rearrange them according forming them and opening their interpretation.
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La Hora Nacional 1. Display of a Pre-Columbian piece at the museum. 5. Replicas of Pre-Columbian pieces made by copying
2008-10 2. Institutional documentation of the piece. the archive photographs.
Views from the working process. 3. Comparison between both the artist and the museum 6. Immersion of the replicas in paint.
archives. 7. Filming of the pieces to imply a narrative alternative to
4. Reclassification of the museum collection according to the institutional.
the artist´s archive classification.
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Black Cloud Aftermath Images a the lecture where the migration of a plague of display which generated a series of dresses and further
2007- 2011 moths is narrated: from a mental image followed by it´s copies by other companies. Notions of authorship, piracy,
PowerPoint lecture by the artist. materialization as an art installation, to it´s exhibition free market, memory and anonymity are discussed in a
and -by crossing through the art world system- how it was lecture that has been presented as an ongoing research.
appropriated by a fashion brand that used it as a shop
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Black Cloud The dream like image of a vaulted space filled with a context of an art fair, a museum, the house of a collector
2007 swarm of moths motivated its materialization in paper and finally in a former church. The piece was installed
30,000 paper moths glued on the walls and ceiling. and installation by occupying the entirety of the artist’s by using the entirety of the rooms, both in the public and
studio. From this initial moment the piece was packaged private areas, without making distinctions, adjusting to
Dimensions variable according to space.
and send to be exhibited in an art gallery, then in the the architectural conditions.
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Drifting Star Large scale three-dimensional rendering of the initial in the space of the museum. The installation, when seen
2010 scene of the animation film Dark Mirror, where the shape in motion, causes the same visual illusion of 3D anima-
Installation of a bird splinters in an explosion, thus becoming an tion films. This piece was presented for the first time in
abstract motif. The spatial position of each piece was first a show in Israel, where it referenced to the historical
Hanging acrylic plates
calculated in a 3D virtual environment and then hanged process of that country, in an abstract way.
Dimensions according to space
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Dark Mirror (sculpture) Transformable Spider Webs Both pieces are three-dimensional renderings modeled
2008 2008 from recurrent images belonging to the Liquid Archive.
Painted resin Aluminum, paint and black and white film The bird shape was sectioned with the pattern of the
spider web, the web lines used as a cutting tool, fragment-
Dimensions Dimensions variable
ing it and giving the impression of being broken when
subjected to the gravity of the real space.
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Psicofonias Double screen projection displaying images from a and mechanically performed music. The program func-
2008 computer program that interprets the structure of digital tions as a translating device were images are converted to
Installation of two channel black and white video drawings as music. Psicofonias is based in the player music or vice versa, it’s the first abstraction of the visual
piano music composed by Conlon Nancarrow in which language contained in the Liquid Archive and the last
connected to a MIDI system, two floating screens
he punched pianola rolls that where read by the machine from the animation series that where made with it.
and sound system. Dimensions variable
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Useless Wonder This work was made after assembling a small animation travel was replaced by the image of a wondering world
2006 studio that contributed and resourced from the Liquid Ar- map that becomes chaotic and then rearranges itself. The
Two channel video animation projected on a chive. The narrative suggested in the film is freely based music was composed to be synchronic with the different
on “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantuck- moments of the film, as in classic animation.
floatting screen.
et” by Edgar Allan Poe whereas a fantastic 18th century
8min, 35 sec
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Dark mirror An experiment to delegate the artistic authorship to oth- in accompanying silent films composed and played the
2005 ers, this animation was commissioned to a motion graph- score by looking at the same visual elements available.
Two-channel video projection on floating screen, ics artist who was asked to use freely the vector images Both sides (sound and image) where confronted together
from the Liquid Archive and generate the film’s visual when the work was shown publicly for the first time, plac-
color with sound, 15 minutes loop. Animation by
narrative (1). For the back view (2) a musician specialized ing the artist as spectator of it’s own work.
Andre Pahl; music by Jose Maria Serralde.
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Why Fear the Future? A deck of Tarot-like cards was printed with esoteric to the cards was diffrent -some where rational, some
2005 compositions made with images taken from the Liquid intuitive- many common points of interpretation where
Two-channel video projection on wall, Archive. The cards where given to diffrent Tarot readers reached. The filming of this process is a basic form of
and asked to propose the rules for displaying them and to animation, suggesting that card reading, by telling stories
color with sound, 25 minutes, loop.
give an interpretation. Although each person´s approach through images, could be a primitive form of cinema.
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Liquid Archive Views from the computer interface where the actual files alize the archive it was cutted out as black paper forms
2000-10 of the archive are organized in several categories and sub- that where displayed on 15 vitrines (2.). Forms like birds,
Vector Drawing paper cutouts, vitrines categories (1.). The files are vector graphics therefor they animals, Rorchach spots, human figures, typefaces and
exist only as data that can be used for means such as are textures, where arranged by grouping them by mirroring
Variable dimensions
animation works, collages, printing or paintings. To visu- the computer archives (3.)
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Nuevos Ricos Music label initiated with a musician and a designer as a and images distributed for free, no acceptance of spon-
2003-2009 platform to publish music and popularize anarchistic at- sor logos and experimenting with show business rituals)
Record label, in collaboration with Julian Léde and titudes within the Mexican youth. Through the years that the label gained global recognition. It was an attempt for
the label existed and because a series of anti capitalism stimulating an historical moment when the country was
Andre Pahl. Music publishing, website, visual prod-
rules stated in a manifesto published in its website (music opening up for democracy.
ucts and performances.
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Devil Dance A jester costume with a faceless devil’s mask was used from the performer, creating an impersonal distance that
2000-2003 for performing within the audience of a concert or an although sympathetic it was nevertheless uncanny. The
Performance art show, by inviting them to dance. The mask frustrated dance was performed in several places as a travelling
the possibility for eye contact and alienated the dancing show with musician Julian Léde, becoming the prelude
character from the public and simultaneously this one for the record label in which both collaborated later.
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Flames Maquiladora Departing conceptually from the production of garments who contributed with labor for free in exchange of being
2001-2003 by craftsman associated to the wrestling world (masks, entertained by making. parts in a manual process. Not
Installation, disguise and shoes makers) this travelling installation one shoe was completed in the three year existence of the
functioned as a temporary sweatshop that ideally pro- project, which was the aim, as the production was to be
variable dimensions
duced sport shoes. The production scheme functioned utopic.
under the principle that it was the exhibition’s audience
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Amorales vs Amorales Los Amorales (book) The final outcome of the Amorales masked character
1999-2003 Published in 2001 by Artimo was, first, a series of wrestling matches that happen both
8 channels video in monitors Page selections in wrestling arenas and in museums, and second, the
edition of a book containing images, conversations and
With sound Edited by Linda Van Deursen and
sentences that form the narration of the entire project.
Various time lenghts Carlos Amorales
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In Conversation With Ray Rosas 51’27” Making a double of oneself -Amorales- as a portable where equated; the gallerist with the promoter’s and the
Amorales Interim 9’45” character, was a seven years long experimental project art museum with the arena. Three seminal videos mark
Arena 2 de mayo 14’ 24” and sociological research about the meaning and use of the first steps into the development of this concept: the
2007, masks. To mirror the wrestling world with the art world making of the mask as a portrait as seen by others, the
each is a one-channel video with sound became an idea where the artist and the wrestler’s role confrontation with oneself and then with the other.
Presented in two monitors and one projector
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Index of Texts
Page 36: Pleased To Meet You
by Lisette Smitts
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CA: That’s one way I’m trying to return to Joan Jonas: Performance is a word that is too CA: Could you relate practice or performance
the three dimensions of performance after the general. I think of performance, in its pure to some aspect of your childhood? To certain
animation experience. It’s been a bit slow and form, as being conceived and made by one memories? Or particular ways of doing things?
clumsy, but it’s getting there. Recently I’ve been person. Or by more than one, as well, and more
working with Galia on her performance where than likely in the context of the art community. JJ: Most children like to put on little theatrical
she dresses as a wolf. We have done it in a very I’m a visual artist and so the concerns are visual shows, or performances. I would stage events
simple way. I felt that the second time we did it, and structural while being about perception. On with an old friend on a lawn (once in a thun-
it was more fluent and had power. a sliding scale, there’s conceptual performance derstorm) using objects and a trunk full of old
at one end and clothes, for our parents, and I loved doing that.
JJ: How do you work with Galia as a dancer? theater at the other, and performance exists That’s why I’m interested in amateur theater
and the tradition of people doing summer work with one-liners. They take one concept ply tell you about it, or you could see a picture 65
productions in their backyards, expressing the and represent it clearly to the public. You, on of it, and you would be able to grasp it. But
desire to perform, to act out narratives, stories. the other hand, took performance in a different with the kind of work that you and I do, that’s
We’re in a period of turmoil now when, histori- direction, which seemed more complex to me, not possible. A picture is only a little fragment
cally and politically, performance is an impor- perhaps of the piece. You
tant way of representing thoughts or ideas that because I identified with it much more. How have to experience it. The same goes for Ma-
cannot be expressed verbally. you feel about it? rina and Ulay, or for the work Marina’s doing
now. Their work is about duration, about do-
CA: When you choose to work in performance, JJ: The reason I was attracted to performance ing something so long that they collapse. The
you find that there is no training for it. Most in the ’60s was because at that time there wasn’t experience of time is Chris’s too, though being
performance artists go to a regular arts school, so-called installation art. I was making sculp- a visual artist he also makes objects. A lot of
where they might have been painting and then ture, and I couldn’t say everything I wanted people have done some performance but then
one day decide not to paint anymore, but to put with an object. In a performance I could add all simply go on to other forms. When I first started
themselves in front of an audience. Maybe some these other dimensions — sound, movement. out, the audience would
schools have a performance art department? I didn’t use many words in the beginning. But occasionally be only a dozen people, but it’s
I worked with literature, film, and poetry as amazing how they spread the story of the
JJ: There are people who teach performance, sources. I could turn the performance. It was then forgotten for a time,
but I don’t think there are any departments. I structure of poetry into a three-dimensional but now we’re remembering a lot. Everybody’s
teach, say, architecture students at MIT who movement situation, which allowed me to looking back and reconstructing that period.
are doing performance for the first and last make more complex structures, which is what
time. I really enjoy seeing their attempt to say I wanted. I’m not a writer, and couldn’t write CA: Often people think of the ’60s in terms of
something in movement, using drawing, video it down. I had to do it in a nonverbal way by conceptual art and happenings.
projection, or their bodies. Having no training constructing images.
gives them a fresh energy, and they learn how JJ: There were a lot of things going on then —
to think creatively. This discussion is not about CA: I feel the same way. I can’t write a script. there was the whole film world and Jack Smith
defining one medium. It’s about making art. Or Because I don’t write, I find substitutes for it. doing very baroque performances in his fantas-
poetry. Performance is just another medium, Do you think this way of proceeding slows the tic space at midnight on Saturdays. Sometimes
another channel. The process is very similar. I understanding of your work on the part of the when people look back at one person’s practice,
consider my class to be a poetry workshop in a audience? they think that it was going on by itself, isolated
way. from everything that was going on around it.
JJ: I don’t think of it as slowing anything down. And that’s not the way it was.
CA: There is something I’ve noticed about the Something to be learned from conceptual work
period of perfor- mances by Chris Burden or, is that sometimes you don’t have to see a piece CA: You all had interactions.
especially Marina Abramovic and Ulay –– they in order to understand it. Somebody could sim-
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JJ: Yes. For example, Nam June Paik wasn’t a or follow. Digging for your subject is a step museum, where you walk around and through
giant alone. I’m not saying he wasn’t a wonder- toward not knowing. You need years in order art, or choose to stare at an object for half an
ful artist. Important, really important. But there to know. You can know what you’re moving hour. These situations are common in Japanese
was a context, a world. toward, as if on a map, before you can develop cinema. Mexican art shares something with
and express it. It’s an unclear road. Japanese art, certain ideas of beauty.
CA: Do you think conceptual art has become
the new academy? JJ: One of the shows I liked the best in last JJ: In what way?
two years was at the Japan Society, curated by
JJ: Maybe. Spaces like the Orchard are in part Takashi Murakami and called Little Boy: The CA: Beauty in the prehispanic arts of Mexico
about looking back. Recently Jutta Koether did Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture. My work can be so strong that it is almost cruel. When
recreations of Martha Graham and Isadora has been influenced by Japanese Noh theater, I see Aztec Art, for instance, I feel a strange
Duncan. It was strange, awkward, and fascinat- for instance, and I happen to love manga. In inaccessibility that is extremely beautiful. In old
ing. What do you think about this? working with animation, do you have a relation- Japanese drawings, I respond to the intensity
ship to what’s coming out of Japan? of the colors, and sometimes try to bring it to
CA: I feel ambivalent about it. There is some- my own drawings, making them really detailed
thing very strong in the work of that period, CA: Though I sometimes find it too bold, I do but at the same time rough. I mix brutality and
which has its own aesthetic. It’s beautiful. Hans- not find it uninteresting. What I especially love refinement, making a bridge between the two
Peter Feldmann made books I love. Same with is Japanese cinema. Recently I was watching cultures, and creating another aesthetic.
Marina’s work. Very powerful, very strong. But Hanabi / Love Fireworks by Takeshi Kitano. At
there is also idealization of that period — as if one point a cop who’s been crippled on the job JJ: The Japanese have different styles them-
it were a lost paradise. is looking at a huge display of flowers, and starts selves. You know the movie Ugetsu, where
to imagine painting. There is a really wonderful everyone speaks gutturally? This was the first
JJ: Partly, it was a time when there were fewer moment where you see only painting after foreign art film I saw and it impressed me great-
artists in the art world, and there was a domi- painting, like a slide show of icons, something ly. This style of acting is quite different from the
nant aesthetic. Whether you went to art school I hadn’t seen since the work of the Russian more elegant style of Kabuki.
or not, you didn’t come out with a million director Andrei Tarkovsky at the end of his film
choices. Now we’ve entered a mannerist period, Andrei Rublev. How could you make a com- CA: This richness is beautiful, unexpected, and
looking back, repeating and reusing mercial movie these days and have the audience unexplored. It seems to grow naturally out of a
and recycling ideas. I found Italian mannerism watch still images for five minutes? It’s a very, collective unconsciousness, erupting suddenly
a very interesting intellectual period when I was very powerful statement. At the same time, it’s like a new monster. The monster gets bigger
studying art history. subtle, absolutely unimportant to the content of and eventually becomes popular.
the film and simply the expression of the direc-
CA: I think that the conflicts in my work have tor’s personal desire. It’s contradictory to watch
made it more difficult for people to understand still images in a film, and harder than going to a
2005 2000
“In Gold We Trust” Nuevos Ricos wintertour 2005, New Amorales vs Amorales, “Au dela du spectacle”, Centre
York, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Mexico City, Mexico. Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
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“Los Mutantes / 2”, in collaboration with Michael Blum, “Cartografías de arte contemporáneo”, Instituto Coahu- “Mythologies”, Haunch of Venison, London, United
Mexico City streets and El Caracol, Mexico. ilense de Cultura, Saltillo, Mexico. Kindom.
“Proyecto Juarez”, Matadero, Madrid, Spain. “Un Certain Etat du Monde?” Garage, Moscow, Russia.
1999 “DADA in Moscow”, Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia. “10 Bienal de la Habana”, Havana, Cuba.
Amorales vs Amorales , “Peace”, Migros Museum, Zur- “Nuit Blanche”, Lycée Jacques Decour, Paris, France. “Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan”, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
ich, Switzerland. “Tiempos Violentos”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, “Repeat All”, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo,
“Los Mutantes / 1”, in collaboration with Joan Jonas, Mexico City, Mexico. Brasil.
Mexico City streets and El Caracol, Mexico. “Lovecraft”, with Rosana Schoijet, Centro Fotografico “El Ser y La Nada”, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City,
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Mexico.
1997 ”This is Sculpture” Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United
“Amorales in conversation with... Superbarrio”, perfor- 2010 Kingdom.
mance/lecture, De Balie ,W139, RABK, Amsterdam, “The Metamorphosis-International Contemporary Art “Extranjeros en la Cultura”, Fundación Telefónica, Bue-
Netherlands. Exhibition”, Other Gallery Shanghai Space, Shangai, nos Aires, Argentina.
“Amorales Table dance”, W139, Amsterdam, Nether- China. “Acciones Disolventes”, Centro Cultural Cachao, Cara-
lands. “[re]wind 4.0 : Contemporary Video Art, 2000-2009”, cas, Venezuela.
“Niet de kustvlaai”, Interim Performance, Westergas DePauw University Campus, Greencastle, United States. “Slash: Paper under the Knife” Museum of Art and
Fabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands. “Twilight Of The Idols”, Galería Casado Santapau, Design, New York, United States.
Madrid, Spain. “Eerie & languid- explorations about responsibilities and
“Still/Moving”, The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. values” Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia.
“Al calor del pensamiento” Daros Latinamerica Collec-
tion at Sala de Arte Ciudad Grupo Santander, Spain. 2008
“Repeat All”, Centro Cultural Chacao de El “Locked in”, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Rosal,Venezuela. “Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art”, Barbican Art Gal-
“La Trama se Complica”, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico. lery, London, United Kingdom.
Group Exhibitions “Modelos para armar. Pensar Latinoamerica desde la “The Rocky Mountain People Show”, Galleria Civica di
Coleccion MUSAC”, MUSAC, León, Spain. Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
2012 “El Efecto Dracula”, Museo Universitario del Chopo, “La Era de la Discrepancia”, MALBA, Buenos Aires,
“The Deep of the Modern”, Manifesta 9, Genk (BE) Mexico City, Mexico. Argentina.
“Extrangerias”, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico. “These Gifts Must Always Move”, Sutton Gallery Project “El Norte del Sur”, Galeria Baró Cruz, São Paulo, Brasil.
“Tour d’Horizon- Werke aus der Sammlung” Migros Space, Melbourne, Australia. “Turn and Widen”, 5th Seoul International Media Art
Museum für Gegenwarts Kunst, Zurich (CH) “Touched: Liverpool Biennial”, special project graphic Biennial, Seul, Corea.
“Highpoint Editions- Decade One”, The Minneapolis intervention, Liverpool, United Kingdom. “Distopía”, Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis (USA) ”Historias en Movimiento > video. cine. animación. Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.
“Posada bis Alys- Mexikanische Kunst von 1900 bis Sonido”, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Santiago “Mexico Expected Unexpected”, La Maison Rouge,
Heute”, Kunsthaus Zürich (CH) del Estero, Argentina. Paris, France.
“¡Afuera!Arte en Espacios Públicos”, diffrent spaces, “Viva La Muerte!”, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno,
2011 Cordoba, Argentina. Las Palmas de la Gran Canaria, Spain.
“¡Sin Techo está pelón!”, Festival Internacional Cervan- “Pasions Privadas, Visions Publicas”, MARCO, Vigo,
“Mexico: Expected/Unexpected”, Museum of Contem- tino, Guanajuato, Mexico. Spain.
porary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA “Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art”, MSK and “The Promised Land”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York,
“Of Bridges and Borders”, CCBA, Buenos Aires, Argen- SMAK, Ghent, Belgium. United States.
tina. “Cauce Critico”, Casa Metropolitana, Mexico City, “Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico
“Two Versions of the Imaginary”, Annet Gelink Gallery, Mexico. City”, Alameda Art Museum, San Antonio, United
Amsterdam, Netherlands. States.
“Distant Star”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA. “Apertura de la Nueva Galeria”, Kurimanzutto, Mexico
“Estrella Distante” Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico. City, Mexico.
“RISK Cinema”, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, 2006 Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy. 70
Florida, United States. “Hot Spots”, International Film Festival Rotterdam, “Exhibicion de Reapertura” Museo Experimental el
“In Transitions: Drift”, National Center for Contempo- Netherlands. ECO, Mexico City, Mexico.
rary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russia. “Speed”, Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany. “Nuevos Ricos”, V Bienal de Mercosur, Puerto Alegre,
“Psychedelic”, Southeastern Center for Contemporary “Image Bank for an Everyday Revolutionary Life”, Red Brasil.
Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Cat, Los Angeles, United States. “The Pantagruel Syndrome”, T3 – Torinotriennale
“41 Salon Nacional de Artistas”, Cali, Colombia. “Anagramme”MAC’s Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts tremusei, Torino, Italy.
“Animales Rotos”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium. “Threat Zone”, Triange Project Space, San Antonio,
México, Mexico. “Melancholie. Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst”, Neue Texas, United States.
“In Transition Russia 2008”, National Center For Con- Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Neues Museum Weimar, Ger-
temporary Art, Moscow, Russia. many 2004
“Zonas de Riesgo”, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain. “Video installations by Carlos Amorales & Javier Viver”, “Origami Bomb”, Project Room, Annet Gelink Gallery,
Location One, New York, United States. ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
2007 “Videopulsiones. Tecnologias do sentimento”, Galería da “A Fripon, Fripon et demi”, Collection Lambert, Avi-
“Star Power, Museum as Body Electric”, Museum of ESAD, Caldas da Rainha-Portugal, Portugal. gnon, France.
Contemporary Art, Denver, United States. “Los Angeles-Mexico Complejidades y Heterogeneidad”, “Imagine Limerick” EV+A, Limerick, Ireland.
“All About Laughter” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Fundacion / Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. “Moving Outlines” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore,
“Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico “Historias Animadas”, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Sala United States.
City” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France. “We Are the World”, Museum Boijmans van Beunigen,
States. “Art Ulimited”, Basel Art Fair, Basel , Switerland. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
“La Era de la Discrepancia”, MUCA, Mexico City, “Human Game” Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Stazione “Don’t call it performance” Centro Andaluz de Arte
Mexico. Leopolda, Florence, Italy. Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain; Museo de Barrio, New
“Wherever We Are”, San Francisco Art Institute, San “Propia Vision (Our Vision)” The Queens Museum of York, United States.
Francisco, United States. Modern Art, New York, United States. “Netherlands Film Festival” Central Museum Utrecht,
“We Are Your Future”, Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Rus- “Distor” Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. Utrecht, Netherlands.
sia. “Cruce de miradas. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cis- “Dicen que finjo o miento. La ficcion revisada” Central
“Viva Mexico!” Zacheta Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. neros” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, de Arte Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Reconstructions II”, Sudeley Castle, United Kingdom. Mexico. “Amsterdammned” Kunsthallen Braanderigarden, Den-
“Repeat All II”, Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, Chile. “Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo”, La Coleccion mark
“Proyecto Juarez” Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. “Contested Fields” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines,
“Dark Mirror” Montevideo/ TBA, Amsterdam, Nether- “Repeat All”, Totti du Monde, Vevey, Switzerland. United States.
lands. “Wherever we go” Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy.
“Viva La Muerte!”, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria. “SF International Animation Showcase”, SF MOMA, 2003
“Geopoliticas de la Animación”, Centro Andaluz de Arte San Francisco, United States. “We Are the World”, Dutch Pavillion, Venice Biennial,
Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain. “The Exotic Journey Ends”, Foksal Fundation, Warsaw, Venice, Italy.
“Theatre of Cruelty”, White Box, New York, United Poland. “Armour” Fort van Asperen, Netherlands.
States. “Version Animée”, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, “Mexico Attack!” Chiesa di San Matteo, Associazione
“New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Saint-Gervais Genève, Switzerland. Prometeo, Lucca, Italy.
Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions”, Museum of “Danke Schön”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, “M_ARS” Graz Kunstverein, Garz, Austria.
Modern Art, New York, United States. Arnhem, Netherlands. “Independence”, South London Gallery, London, United
“Existencias”, Musac-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de “Heterotopias” Plataforma 2006, varias sedes, Puebla, Kingdom.
Castilla y León, León, Spain. Mexico. “Mexico Iluminado” Freedman Gallery, Albright College,
“Paperback. Ediciones baratas”, Fundación Luis Seoane, Philadelphia, United States.
Coruna, Spain. 2005
“Zero Interest /Interessi Zero”, Galleria civica de Arte
Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
“Identità e nomadismo” Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro
2002 1997 71
“Coartadas/ Alibis” Witte de Wit, Rotterdam, Nether- “Dialogues”, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
lands. “Open Ateliers” Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
“Telepathic Journeys”, MIT List Art Center, Cambrige, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mass, United States.
“Mexico City : An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates 1996
of Bodies and Values” PS1, NY (US), Knustwerke, Berlin, “Open Ateliers” Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
Germany. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“20 Million Mexicans can’t be wrong”, South London
Gallery, London, United Kingdom. 1994
“Fuora di Uso”, Pescara, Italy. “Western Non Western”, Smart Project Space, Amster-
“Busan Bienial”, Busan, South Korea. dam, Netherlands.
2001
“Kunst macht Spass” Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg,
Germany.
“The Overexcited Body” Palazzo dell’Arengario, Piazza
del Duomo, Milan, Italy.
Sesc Pompei, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
“We in FLAMES” Berlin Biennial 2, Berlin, Germany.
“House of Games”, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, Nether-
lands.
“Sportcult” Apex Art, New York City, United States.
Tiranna Biennial, National Gallery, Albania.
2000
“Makeshift”, ArtPace, San Antonio Texas, United States.
“Unlimited NL-3” De Appel, Amsterdeam, Netherlands.
“Territorios ausentes”, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain.
“Let’s Entertain”, itinerant exhibition: Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, United States.
“Ideas for Living”, De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands.
“Au dela du spectacle” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France.
“Insite 2000”, San Diego / Tijuana (United States /
Mexico).
1999
“Peace”, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.
1998
“Not strictly private”, Shed im eisenwerk, Frauenfeld,
Switzerland.
“Faces and Names”, Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands.