Research Catalog

Title

Masks : Damián Ortega / text, Luigi Amara.

Publication

[Mexico City, Mexico] : Zolo Press, 2023.

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Additional Authors

• Ortega, Damián.
• Amara, Luigi, 1971-

Description

208 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

• A series of one-hundred masks constructed of everyday materials by the Mexican artist, featuring texts by writer and poet Luigi Amara.0Amidst quarantines and lockdowns, Damián Ortega hosted a paranormal masquerade. Invited were a Philanthropic Ogre, a Sweet Rodent, a Freak Brother, Fertility Ghost, Giacometti Dumpling, Acupuncturista, a Tango Singer, and Self Employed Pig, others too: a strange gang fashioned of bottle caps, tangles of string, tortillas, gourd shells, cactus leaves, and coins?whatever Ortega could find around the house. Masks welcomes you to join the ball, gathering one-hundred such disguises alongside essays by Luigi Amara.
• Known for his ability to turn common objects into entities with complex narratives, Damián Ortega (Mexico, 1967) presents a series of sculptural masks that explore important social, economic and personal narratives imbued with the ephemeral of the everyday. Made with typical Mexican raw materials, such as guaje, jute and corn tortillas, these masks represent a new set of works made in 2020-2021 as a cathartic response to the pandemic, questioning what faces, characters and personalities can build and become.
• A series of one-hundred masks constructed of everyday materials by the Mexican artist, featuring texts by writer and poet Luigi Amara. Amidst quarantines and lockdowns, Damián Ortega hosted a paranormal masquerade. Invited were a Philanthropic Ogre, a Sweet Rodent, a Freak Brother, Fertility Ghost, Giacometti Dumpling, Acupuncturista, a Tango Singer, and Self Employed Pig, others too: a strange gang fashioned of bottle caps, tangles of string, tortillas, gourd shells, cactus leaves, and coins - whatever Ortega could find around the house. Masks welcomes you to join the ball, gathering one-hundred such disguises alongside essays by Luigi Amara.

Uniform Title

Masks (Zolo Press)

Alternative Title

Damián Ortega : masks

Subject

• Ortega, Damián > Themes, motives
• Masks in art
• Installations (Art)
• Themes, motives
• Mexico

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Masks (Sculpture)

Note

• Chiefly illustrated.

Language (note)

• Texts in English and Spanish.

Contents

Masks = Máscaras / Damián Ortega -- Masks 001-100 Reinvented by masks: Damián Ortega's rites of passage / Luigi Amara -- Masks: as scab or scar -- The other side of laughter -- La reinvencion por la máscara: los ritos de paso de Damián Ortega / Luigi Amara -- Máscaras: como costra -- La otra cara de la risa Transformers 01-10.

ISBN

9798986093024

OCLC

• on1371129935
• 1371129935
• SCSB-14433313

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries