Amat, Frederic

FREDERIC AMAT BIOGRAPHY:

Frederic Amat was born in Barcelona in 1952, where he studied architecture, painting and scenographic techniques with Fabià Puigserver.

From 1975, Amat traveled through Africa, Mexico and the United States, until he returned to Barcelona in 1982. These trips were an important influence on his art.

His plastic work is framed within the experimental and conceptual tendencies of the 70's, standing out for its particular iconography and the use of unconventional materials such as collage, assemblage, paste-cardboard, paper, reeds, branches, fabrics, resin and everyday utensils.

Frederic Amat has exhibited his work in Paris (1976), Milan (1980), Bonn (1981), Berlin (1982), San Francisco (1988), New York (1984-85, 1987, 1991-92), Barcelona at the Miró Foundation, Mexico City at the Rufino Tamayo Foundation, among other places.

From 1986, Frederic Amat began to create scenic spaces for theater and dance, collaborating in the staging of "El público" by Federico García Lorca (with Fabià Puigserver, 1986), "Tirà Banderes" by Valle-Inclán (1992) and "Todo esperando a Godot" by Beckett (1999). Between 1996 and 1998 his ceramics and posters were exhibited. In addition, he directed with Cesc Gelabert the show "Zoom-zoom-ca", presented in 1998 at the Festival de Música y Danza de Granada. Another of his works includes the direction of the film "Viaje a la luna" (1998).