Beatriz Morales

Color Archaeology is the first major monographic cross-section of the versatile and engaging work of Mexican artist Beatriz Morales (* 1981). The selection of work represented in this special volume is complemented with texts by Lebanese cognitive scientist Yasmina Jraissati, renowned curator Michel Blancsub and award winning author Luisa Reyes Retana. A portrait of an unusual, autodidactic artist who integrates Latin America, Central Europe and the Middle East in her work, this book also takes a broad, in-depth look at the very nature of colour per se. Moraless multilayered oeuvreencompassing painting, installation, and videoand Jraissatis scientific, philosophical view of the interplay between colour and cultural influence open up to the reader an expanded perspective of colour and materiality in art, unfolding between the poles of the traditional and the contemporary, the individuals and the universal. Curator Michel Blancsub, a renowned specialist on contemporary Mexican art, provides analytical commentary on Morales oeuvre, while award winning novelist Luisa Reyes Retana engages poetically with the artists biography between Mexico City, Beirut and Berlin. Text in English and German.