Los Amorales

concept Carlos Amorales ; text Patricia Ellis, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Phillipe Vergne, Rein Wolfs

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Author(s)

Patricia Ellis, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Phillipe Vergne, Rein Wolfs

Publication

Amsterdam : Artimo, 2001

Scope

unpaged, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

9075380232

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Carlos Amorales is a Mexican artist whose work in the media of photographs, videos, installations, and performance draws on the theatrical world of professional wrestling in Mexico, where the fighters assume fictional characters and are popular heroes. Amorales takes part in this world by creating his own alter ego: a wrestler that fights under the name Amorales and wears a mask designed by the artist. The result is a fascinating, multi-layered game of changing identities, and a constant shifting of reality and fiction.

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Person as subject

Carlos Amorales

Keywords

photography , film , video , performance

Location

Cabinet 1 - 2: Kunstenaars

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