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THE LINE OF THE POSSIBLE
Ceramic relief with oxides and glaze, 239 x 48 cm
Carlos Marín (Michoacán, Mexico, 1959) is a versatile artist whose work is defined by a continuous search for personal languages and experimentation with various materials—though he always returns to ceramics, a medium with which he feels deeply connected. For Marín, clay is a material that allows him to gently shape the body and interacting figures to tell a story—a past that corrodes and transforms into art.
Clothing becomes the disguise of the humanized beast, representing—with earthy textures—winged creatures, fish-shaped bodies and mermaids among turtles, birds, iguanas, and snakes. These forms follow one another, connect, and flow alongside the metamorphosis of a female body-tree that shelters birds—a dialogue between the human figure and turkeys, ducks, frogs, pigs, boar heads, and oxen—forming a bestiary.
For the past 27 years, Carlos Marín has lived in Cuernavaca, and since the year 2000, all his professional artistic production has taken place in this city. Originally from Uruapan, Michoacán, born in 1959, he belongs to one of the most representative families of contemporary Mexican artists. He studied Graphic Design at the San Carlos Academy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and worked in design for many years without ever abandoning sculpture and drawing. In 2000, he chose to dedicate himself professionally to art. Since then, he has explored the human body as a central plastic language, which, as he states, is his language.
Carlos Marín
Carlos Marín has developed an artistic approach centered mainly on sculpture, relief, drawing, and printmaking. His primary materials are ceramics, oxides, and ballpoint pen. Since 1995, he has worked professionally in the visual and plastic arts.
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2015 “Cosa de Gravedad” (Wall Sculpture), Galería Oscar Román, Mexico City.
2015 “Inventario” (Sculpture and Relief), Galería Sisal, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
2014 “Voces” (Sculpture and Relief), Galería Oscar Román, Mexico City.
2013 “Tres Tiempos” (Relief and Sculpture), Un Teatro, Espacio Cultural A.C., Mexico City.
2012 “Cortezas” (Sculpture and Relief), X Espacio de Arte, Mexico City.
2010 “Territorios de Preguntas” (Sculpture), Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Casa Isidro Fabela, San Ángel, Mexico City.
2009 “Territorio de Preguntas” (Sculpture and Painting), Museum of Art of Querétaro, Querétaro.
2007 “Cuerpos Deshabitados” (Sculpture and Painting), Jardín Borda Cultural Center, Cuernavaca, Morelos.
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2011 “Obras de la Galería” (Bronze Sculpture), Galería Patricia Mendoza, San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur.
2011 “Fundación Guadalupe Madre Tierra” (Ceramic Relief), Jardín Borda, Cuernavaca, Morelos.
2011 “Rayuela Foundation Exhibition and Auction” (Sculptures), Subastas López Morton, Cuernavaca, Morelos.
2011 “Instituto Nuevo Amanecer Exhibition and Auction” (Sculpture), Monterrey, Nuevo León.
2010 Permanent Exhibition at Galería Alberto Misrachi (Sculpture and Painting), Mexico City.
2009 “Latin American Ceramics” (Sculpture), Figarelli Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
2008 “The Diversity of Imagination” (Sculpture), Institute of Ecology, UNAM.
2008 “Auction 08 – Contemporary Latin American Art” (Sculpture), Museum of Latin American Arts (MOMAA), Palm Beach, Los Angeles, USA.
2006 “The Body, Dwelling of the Soul” (Painting), Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
2005 “The Gardens of Desire” (Painting), Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
2005 “Encounters” (Sculpture), Fomento Cultural Banamex.
Distinctions
First place, II Biennial of Small-Format Sculpture of Morelos, Cuernavaca, July 2008.
Advisor for the FOECA Young Creators Grant in 2007 for Vicente Calleja’s project “Contemporary Approach to Drawing with Dynamic Line.”
Advisor for the FOECA Young Creators Grant in 2005 for Paola Esquivel Silva’s project “Family Construction.”
Designer of the commemorative coin seal for Justice for the Faculty of Law at UNAM, 2004.
First place, V Paso del Norte Visual Arts Biennial, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, August 2004.