Video: Black moths of Carlos Amorales. Paper installation Black Cloud
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Not black crows flocked together, but black butterflies. This unusual composition was built by Mexican artist and designer Carlos Amorales on the walls of an old church in Spain. An intricate installation of hundreds of large and small moths made of black paper is called Black cloud … At the same time gloomy and light, positive and carrying negative, joyful and sad, sweet and disturbing, this installation generates absolutely amazing images and associations in people's minds, giving their imaginations the opportunity to open up and spread their wings. Perhaps white and strong, like a gull or an albatross. Or maybe black and soft, like bats or paper butterflies, evenly covering the walls of art galleries.
The work of Carlos Amorales is of interest not only to fans of contemporary art, but also to those who study this art. No wonder the author of the dark installation Black Cloud is invited to give lectures for future designers and artists, as well as conduct master classes and training seminars for everyone. According to the artist, he is interested in the values of modern Mexican culture, which he reveals in those images of the post-apocalyptic world, which he embodies in various methods and techniques in his numerous art projects: paintings, sculptures, installations and performances.
Over the past few years, living creatures of black, red and gray tones have become the main characters of these art projects: birds, animals, spiders, plants, and now, butterflies from the Black Cloud art project. There are gothic motives and surreal moods, the ideas for which the author draws from the most ordinary life. You can see the exhibitions of Carlos Amorales in famous galleries, for example, in London's Tate Modern, Paris Center Pompidou and many other exhibition halls around the world.
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