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Carlos Amorales, From Spider Galaxy (Guardians), 2008

Carlos Amorales Mexican, b. 1970

From Spider Galaxy (Guardians), 2008
4 ink color Silkscreen on Arches paper weight 88. Printed at Atelier Pablo Torrealba with master printmaker Jan Hendrix
98.4 x 47.3 in each one
250 x 120 cm each one
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The use of “creatures” is especially pronounced in the triptych From Spider Galaxy (Guardians) (2008). Each of the panels depicts a human-like creature and a wolf. Barely noticeable, the wolf...
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The use of “creatures” is especially pronounced in the triptych From Spider Galaxy (Guardians) (2008). Each of the panels depicts a human-like creature and a wolf. Barely noticeable, the wolf is a slightly darker shade of black than the creature, and the panels are almost the same except for faint variations between each creature. In each panel, the creature emerges from a spider web, each time with a different head and shadow-like shape behind it. Despite the creatures’ human-like body shape, emphasized with a lighter shade of black, the heads and shadow shapes hint that the creatures are not normal, as if they were from another world.
While studying in Europe, Amorales began to compile an archive of images from his daily life in Mexico, movies, and the streets of Amsterdam. Inspired by the popular Dutch aesthetic of the silhouette, Amorales archived the images as silhouettes, growing his archive to over four thousand images. Amorales now uses these images and combines them to make different figures and compositions for his works. Together, these images often create a dark, apocalyptic theme, and through the use of clichés, Amorales enables the viewer to enter this ominous world easily.
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Provenance

One set at Colección Jumex, another at colección FEMSA

Exhibitions

Interval, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, 2017; curator: Hills Snyder
One set at the Jumex Collection, Mexico City and another one at FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico.

Publications

Código DF: arte y cultura contemporáneos desde la Ciudad de México, 2010 (Illustrated)
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