Please come to the opening of Bellas Artes Projects' non-profit Manila exhibition space, Bellas Artes Outpost, with a solo exhibition by Mexico City based artist Carlos Amorales (b.1970).
The title Prelude alludes to a future act ahead and speaks to the role of sound that echoes across the artist’s diverse practice.
For more information, please contact us at info@bellasartesprojects.org.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Amorales’ family settled in Acapulco via the Spanish galleon route, and their long journey across the Ocean connected them to the Philippines in the Batan Islands. Personal history aside, there are deep connections between the Philippines and Mexico (and further on in Latin America), with nearly 60,000 crew members sailing back and forth across the Pacific Ocean, some permanently settling in Mexico over the course of two-and-a-half centuries from 1565 to 1815. Similarities in folk music in Latin America and the Philippines are one of the ways that this connection of cultures can be acutely experienced. Music and sound surpass language in their ability to connect people; experimenting with instruments gives people a common place to jam.
Amorales’ family settled in Acapulco via the Spanish galleon route, and their long journey across the Ocean connected them to the Philippines in the Batan Islands. Personal history aside, there are deep connections between the Philippines and Mexico (and further on in Latin America), with nearly 60,000 crew members sailing back and forth across the Pacific Ocean, some permanently settling in Mexico over the course of two-and-a-half centuries from 1565 to 1815. Similarities in folk music in Latin America and the Philippines are one of the ways that this connection of cultures can be acutely experienced. Music and sound surpass language in their ability to connect people; experimenting with instruments gives people a common place to jam.
Amorales will be representing Mexico at the 57th Venice Biennale to open on May 2017. We are excited to host him for a residency in Bataan.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION, 'PRELUDE':
Visitors will be enchanted by a score that Amorales and musician Julian Léde commissioned from the legendary Guatemalan composer and sound artist Joaquín Orellana (b. 1937), which is Orellana’s unique take on a segment from the classic Disney Film Fantasia. . The short film “Orellana’s Fantasia” from 2013 registers the shadows of a performance by Orellana, who built a set of instruments that are analogue models made to perform as if they where electronic instruments, called útiles sonoros (sound utensils).
Visitors will be enchanted by a score that Amorales and musician Julian Léde commissioned from the legendary Guatemalan composer and sound artist Joaquín Orellana (b. 1937), which is Orellana’s unique take on a segment from the classic Disney Film Fantasia. . The short film “Orellana’s Fantasia” from 2013 registers the shadows of a performance by Orellana, who built a set of instruments that are analogue models made to perform as if they where electronic instruments, called útiles sonoros (sound utensils).
Each instrument has to be performed by following a score written out of a set of symbols and notations that Orellana invented to do so. Carlos Amorales and musician Julian Léde commissioned him in 2012 to create his own version of the score for a segment of the classic animation film “Fantasia” by Walt Disney, which we hear in this video. Following the experience collaborating with Orellana, the 2013 Amorales film “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” required the artist to work frame by frame from the original animation of Walt Disney.
Each frame has been extracted and reproduced several times through a black and white photocopy machine, diluting the original image. Later, each photocopy was manually torn in two pieces, before being digitalized again and reordered through a post-production process. Continuing with the ideas of building abstract scores and the liberation found through the immediacy of the photocopy process, Prelude presents a new series of prints by Amorales that bend notions of what sound could and should look like.
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