Carlos Almaraz/カルロス・アルマラス
メキシコ系アメリカ人
1941-1989
メキシコシティに生まれ、両親とともに米国シカゴに移住し、East Los Angelesのメキシコ系アメリカ人コミュニティで育つ。
1964年、カルフォルニア大学ロサンジェルス校に入学、翌年にはニューヨークに移り、Art Students LeagesとNew School for Social Researchで学ぶ。
1971年、ロサンジェルスに戻る。その三年後、Otis Art Institute (正式名称Otis College of Art and Design)でMFAの学位を取得する。
1970年代初頭に、チカーノ（メキシコ系アメリカ人）運動に参加する。チカーノ運動は、農業労働者闘争、人権、教育、メキシコ系アメリカ人の社会経済的状況の問題を取り上げた。
Almarazは、米国の労働組合幹部であり公民権活動家のCesar Chávezとともに、United Farm Workers（米国農業労働組合）で1973年から1976年まで活動する。
この時期、ほかのチカーノアーティストたちと同様に、Almarazは、メキシコ系アメリカ人の居住地区で社会問題をテーマにした壁画制作を行っている。
1971年、Almarazは、ロサンジェルスの公園リクリエーション部門の壁画コーディネーターに就く。
1973年には、アーティスト集団Los Fourを、Roberto de la Rocha、Gilbert Luján、Frank Romeroと立ち上げる。またAlmarazは、二誌のチカーノ雑誌「Concilio de arte popular」「Chisme-arte」を創刊している。
メキシコ系アメリカ人の歴史と文化を知ってもらうために、アーティスト集団のLos Fourは、先コロンブス期の神々、グアダルーペ聖母、メキシコ革命の先導者たち、チェ・ゲバラのような英雄たちを描く。
1974年、アーティスト集団Los Fourを取り上げた、美術館展示では初となるチカーノアート展が、Los Angeles County Museum of Artで開催された。Los Fourの活動は1980年まで続いた。
Alamarazの1980年代初期のパステルと油彩の作品は、都市生活のアレゴリーとして自動車事故をテーマにしていた。
彼は動物や強い色で描いた想像上の生物が居る詩的な風景を描いている。晩年の色調を抑えた作品は、罪と贖いに繋がる。
AIDSの合併症でロサンジェルスで1989年世を去る。
主な展覧会
Moonlight Theater: Prints and Related Works by Carlos Alamaraz
The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors
The Museum of the Fine Arts, Houston, 1987
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985
Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990
Mito y magia en America: Los ochenta
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico, 1991
展覧会図録
Moonlight Theater: Prints and Related Works by Carlos Alamaraz
Published by the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
Illustrated wraps. 8vo. 61 pp. Exhibition catalog. Includes: numerous color plates; interview with Efram Wolff by Cynthia Burlingham regarding Wolff's collaboration with Almaraz; essay by Patrick Ela; checklist of the exhibition. Condition: Very good, slight rubbing and edgewear to cover, inside pages as new. Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. AB
US$25,00+(shipping charge US$32.95)
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors
Published by Abbeville Press, 1987
Book Condition: Very Good AB
US$5.56 (+shipping charge US$5.95)
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985
Published by Wight Art Gallery, 1981
Book Condition: Good AB
US$65.00(+shipping charge US$75.00)
Mito y magia en America: Los ochenta
Published by Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterey, Monterrey, 1991
394p., color plates, photos, wrps, large 4to. Key exhibition of 316 works from all over Latin America (including Brazil) with portrait photos and professional biographies of the exhibited artists. With essays by Franceso Pellizzi, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Peter Schjeldahl, Edward J. Sullivan, and the curators. Large format on heavy coated stock. Seller Inventory AB58553
US$75.00(+shipping charge US$22.00)
Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz
This book celebrates Carlos Almaraz, one of the most influential Los Angeles artists of the 1970s and 1980s. Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first full length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car crashes and pastoral depictions of L.A.’s Echo Park. Among the leading figures whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with works for the United Farm Workers and cofounded the important artists collective Los Four. Although he saw himself as an activist, Almaraz straddled multiple―and often contradictory―identities that drew from divergent cultures and approaches, and his work became less overtly political and more personal, psychological, dreamlike, and even mystical as he evolved artistically. The book features more than 60 works, mostly from the late 1970s through 1989, the year of the artist’s untimely death at age 48, as well as selections from his journals and recollections from numerous colleagues and friends who knew him throughout his career.
Published by Prestel, 2017
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First edition.
US$ 119.00(+shipping charge US$37.50)
CARLOS ALMARAZ: SELECTED WORKS: 1970-1984, PAINTINGS AND PASTEL DRAWINGS
Published by Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (1984)
32pp, 10 color and 10 b&w illustrations. Text in English and Spanish. With a chronology, exhibition history, and bibliography. Limited to one thousand copies, this informative catalogue published conjunction with an extensive 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival survey exhibition is still the most comprehensive document available on the late Los Angeles Chicano master, Carlos Almaraz. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies with a newspaper clipping of the "Los Angeles Times" 12/14/89 obituary for the artist additionally laid in. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 1984. Illustrated Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition 1/1000. Artist Monograph AB
US$93.50(+shipping charge US$50.00)
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