Join James Scorer, Lecturer in Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University, for a Spanish Language introductory tour of the Carlos Amorales exhibition. Intermediate level Spanish required.
Using a broad range of media, including performance, animation, sculpture and installation, Amorales creates cross-media works that jar our reality by re-appropriating images and re-presenting them in a less-than-familiar form. Often dark in tone, and always dramatic, his pieces are characterized by the recycling and manipulating of examples from his ongoing ‘liquid archive’ of images, many of which draw upon cultural symbols from his native Mexico. For this exhibition Amorales will present two recent works: Psicofonias and Discarded Spider (both 2008). In Psicofonias, Amorales’ graphic drawings are transformed into music. The large-scale two screen video installation, created by Amorales together with musician Julián Lede and digital programmer André Pahl, works like a ‘virtual pianola’, translating drawings, represented by dots, into musical notes which trigger two synthesizers as they scroll down the screen. The video installation Discarded Spider shows the silhouette of the artist as he manipulates giant sculptural spider webs. A metaphor of entrapment, these spider webs also have a dark poetic beauty as they create intricate patterns across the screen.
Exhibition opens Sat 6 – Sat 27 March.
Opening Times:
- Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00
- Sun: 12:00 - 18:00
- Mon: closed
FREE, Booking Required