CARLOS AMORALES LIKES MONSTERS, AS DO WE

By BERNARDO LOYOLA

We spoke a bit that day and I asked him if he would be into giving us an interview for Art Talk! A few months later I went to visit him at his studio in Mexico City, where we are both from and where he was working on paintings of huge black butterflies.

For the past ten years, Amorales has developed a huge visual catalog of simple vector graphics that he calls the Liquid Archive: flattened silhouettes of animals, people, planes, spiderwomen, wolfmen, birds and buildings, and other elements inhabiting some urban gothic dreamworld. He uses those images to create most of his work, so you can see his wolves or spider webs in paintings, installations, animations, performance art, mobiles, and even t-shirts, flyers, and album covers of the artists on his own label, Nuevos Ricos, which he owns with his friend Julián Lede (aka Silverio). Carlos Amorales is one of the most successful Mexican artists of his generation, and in recent years he has had shows everywhere, from Philadelphia, to Buenos Aires to Paris to London, to New York to Cincinnati, where he actually has a show right now. If you don’t happen to be in Cincinnati right now, you can check out his work in this week’s installment of Art Talk!

By BERNARDO LOYOLA 2 years ago

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