Carlos Amorales
02 - 31 Mar 2012
CARLOS AMORALES
La Langue des morts
2 – 31 March, 2012
Yvon Lambert is pleased to present “La Langue des Morts”, the third solo exhibition from the Mexican artist Carlos Amorales at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris.
The exhibition will open on the 2nd of March and will be visible until the 31st of March.
During the past fifteen years, Carlos Amorales (born in 1970, lives and works in Mexico) has created and developed a visual alphabet constituted of abstract signs and symbols that he incorporates in his different works.
This “fluid archive”, often borrowed from popular iconography, is therefore at the core of his drawings, collages and installations or even of his animation videos.
If the artist, through mental images that sometimes reached for intimate meanings, so far introduced notions like beastliness, the paradoxes of beauty or even disturbing strangeness; he nowadays explores a new poetic project around death, vanity, and language. With his both marvellous and threatening thick cloud of insects in his installation “Black Cloud”, the artist already drowned the spectator in a moment of intense vibrancy, between seduction and absolute repulsion.
This new exhibition at the Yvon Lambert Gallery is a continuity to his extensive research on transformation of figurative language into a calligraphic typography, where the shapes can see themselves transformed into abstract signs and senseless elements.
In the first part of the exhibition, Carlos Amorales presents “La Langue des Morts” – The Language of the Dead – a photographic novel made of fifteen prints on paper. This work has been made based on violent pictures taken from the Mexican press, showing the deaths caused by the war conducted against drug dealers.
“The language proposed could be the voice of death if it could speak, if we existed in a sort of hellish afterlife.
This work could be understood as the expression of the feeling of alienation towards our own culture, where the war seems to be something impossible to rationalize and where senses escape our imagination. “ ( Carlos Amorales)
Currently a resident at the Calder studio, Carlos Amorales presents an installation in the second part of the exhibition, made from several big mobiles whose overall shape is undoubtedly inspired by Calder. This moving work, composed of cymbals, leaves the spectator free to create his own music. As sais the artist: “.this installation suggests a quiet state of tranquillity, by being played by an audience can become either harmonic or chaotic. These sculptures are an antidote to the horrors caused by war and violence: my personal desire to offer a blissful moment.
La Langue des morts
2 – 31 March, 2012
Yvon Lambert is pleased to present “La Langue des Morts”, the third solo exhibition from the Mexican artist Carlos Amorales at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris.
The exhibition will open on the 2nd of March and will be visible until the 31st of March.
During the past fifteen years, Carlos Amorales (born in 1970, lives and works in Mexico) has created and developed a visual alphabet constituted of abstract signs and symbols that he incorporates in his different works.
This “fluid archive”, often borrowed from popular iconography, is therefore at the core of his drawings, collages and installations or even of his animation videos.
If the artist, through mental images that sometimes reached for intimate meanings, so far introduced notions like beastliness, the paradoxes of beauty or even disturbing strangeness; he nowadays explores a new poetic project around death, vanity, and language. With his both marvellous and threatening thick cloud of insects in his installation “Black Cloud”, the artist already drowned the spectator in a moment of intense vibrancy, between seduction and absolute repulsion.
This new exhibition at the Yvon Lambert Gallery is a continuity to his extensive research on transformation of figurative language into a calligraphic typography, where the shapes can see themselves transformed into abstract signs and senseless elements.
In the first part of the exhibition, Carlos Amorales presents “La Langue des Morts” – The Language of the Dead – a photographic novel made of fifteen prints on paper. This work has been made based on violent pictures taken from the Mexican press, showing the deaths caused by the war conducted against drug dealers.
“The language proposed could be the voice of death if it could speak, if we existed in a sort of hellish afterlife.
This work could be understood as the expression of the feeling of alienation towards our own culture, where the war seems to be something impossible to rationalize and where senses escape our imagination. “ ( Carlos Amorales)
Currently a resident at the Calder studio, Carlos Amorales presents an installation in the second part of the exhibition, made from several big mobiles whose overall shape is undoubtedly inspired by Calder. This moving work, composed of cymbals, leaves the spectator free to create his own music. As sais the artist: “.this installation suggests a quiet state of tranquillity, by being played by an audience can become either harmonic or chaotic. These sculptures are an antidote to the horrors caused by war and violence: my personal desire to offer a blissful moment.