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carlos amorales

"works with a range of different cultural values which he continually relates to his Mexican origin. Amorales’ series of performances are contemporary rituals. His major performance project with traditional Mexican wrestlers was exhibited in, amongst other venues, the Centre Pompidou in Paris; his Mexican Maquiladora project was initiated in the Migros Museum in Zürich, and his Devil Dance performance, by which he imper was exhibited for the first time at the last Berlin Biennial.

In the Dutch Pavilion Amorales will construct a Mexican maquiladora, a small workshop in which parts of shoes are being made. Maquiladoras are usually low-cost production units for the US market. Amorales juxtaposes this Mexican icon with Western reality. The central element is some 110 pairs of ceramic shoes, shelved in a regimented fashion and reflecting minimalist aesthetics."
http://www.wearetheworld.nl/artists/amorales.html
exhibitions:


2003
TV Website,
Jumex Collection, Ecatepec, Mexico.
Amorales vs Amorales,
SF MOMA, San Francisco;
Tate Live, Tate Modern, London;
Arena Coliseo, Mexico City;
Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City;
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam;
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris;
Büro Friedrich, Berlin.

2002
Fighting Evil (with style),
SFU Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.
Solitario,
Le Studio, Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Simpatia por el Diablo,
SKUC, Ljubljana;
Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich.

2001
Cuerpo sin alma,
Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City.
Cabaret Amorales,
Migros Museum, Zurich.
Open,
Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zurich.

2000
A World All Too Familiar,
New projects by Carlos Amorales
and Christine Hill.
CCS Museum, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Funny 13,
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.
Los Mutantes 2,
in collaboration with Michael Blum,
Mexico City streets and El Caracol.

1999
As Amorales,
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam;
Project room, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
Los Mutantes 1,
in collaboration with Joan Jonas.
Mexico City streets and El Caracol.
Stoplight Pastimes,
Marres, Maastricht.

1998
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.

1997
Amorales in conversation with... Superbarrio,
performance/lecture,
De Balie; W139; RABK, Amsterdam.
Amorales Table Dance,
performance,
W139, Amsterdam.