Carlos Amorales at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati | USA
Carlos Amorales at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati | USA
Carlos Amorales at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati | USA
09-26-08

Carlos Amorales
curated by Raphaela Platow

solo show
opening november 26 | 8 p.m.
september 27, 2008 - january 11, 2009

Contemporary Arts Center
44 East Sixth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

In this exhibition, choreography and multimedia artwork come together in dialogue with the architecture of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. Mexican artist Carlos Amorales’s solo exhibition includes animated films, sculptural objects, performances and drawings. Amorales has created over his career a “Liquid Archive,” an accumulated and growing wealth of digital images of trees, spider webs, wolves, hybrid beings and architectural forms. This archive also serves as a vocabulary of imagery Amorales uses to create sculptures, costumes, animated films and performances. His fascination with horror as both a film genre and as a human emotion informs several recent projects. The CAC will exhibit films and drawings by Amorales as well as a site-inspired installation involving the Cincinnati Ballet in a first–ever exhibiting partnership with the CAC. Amorales is drawing from his archive various shapes of spider webs to create sculptural forms using malleable materials. Ballet dancers will be involved with the installation and engage the sculptures periodically throughout the run of the exhibition, impacting the
Carlos Amorales, Dark Mirror, 2005


position of artwork in the gallery. The CAC is producing a catalog to be published in the fall, which will be Amorales’s first catalog printed in the US and the most comprehensive publication of his work to date. The catalog includes essays by Nestor Garcia Canclini, Jose Falconi, Jens Hoffmann, Joan Jonas (in conversation) and Raphaela Platow.


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