« I really like how art can change according to where it’s on show and how people respond to it and how the culture of the people seeing it transform it. »
Carlos Amorales
Carlos Amorales
Carlos Amorales felt trapped by formal art processes and much preferred expressing himself through performance. In 1996 Carlos Amorales began creating a digital archive of photographic images that he modified to transform them into black silhouettes. He has made use of these in many of his collages, prints, paintings, installations, videos, sculptures and drawings. From 1999 to 2003 Carlos Amorales developed his performance art with a project that involved the Mexican version of professional wrestling, with the faces of all the participants hidden by masks showing his own facial features. This work gained him international recognition and was documented in a 2001 monograph published by the Artimo Foundation, Amsterdam. Carlos Amorales is a member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico. He also teaches art to students in Amsterdam. (Artist website) Read Less
