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Carlos Amorales at Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum
12April
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Carlos Amorales at Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum

Mexican artist Carlos Amorales inaugurated on March 21 an exhibition titled Germinal, at Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum. The display explores a new language created by the artist through his recent pieces and works specially produced for the Museum. This exhibit includes 12 artworks that range from drawing, painting and sculpture to videos and one short film that inquire into what happens when we get at our wits’ ends.

 

The works make up an exploration carried out by the artist to create a graphic language with a plasticity that places artworks right in the limit between image and sign, used in such traditional formats as posters, books or newspapers, but when it’s applied to other means such as sculpture and video, the works question the use of language and its frontiers.

 

Based on the comprehension and fragmentation of images put together in Archivo liquid, a project developed by the artist for over ten years since 1998, the works were conceived out of two important moments: the earthquake that took place in 1985 when the city fell apart, but the civil society aroused along with the war against drug trafficking and the non-existence of leadership. “Those are two moments when I feel that the lack of leadership is very powerful, but they are diametrically opposed. I just wanted to analyze why these two things happen”, the artist explained to the press. Inspired by these facts, Amorales created Germinal, which gives name to the exhibition. The work, a newspaper that includes anarchist texts and images of the earthquake from 1985 in Mexico City, establishes a parallel between these discourses and the earthquake.

 

The display, curated by Magnolia de la Garza, can be admired at Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum through June 21st.