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.

A partir de 1986, Frederic Amat comenzó a crear espacios escénicos para teatro y danza, colaborando en los montajes de «El público» de Federico García Lorca (con Fabià Puigserver, 1986), «Tirà Banderes» de Valle-Inclán (1992) y «Todo esperando a Godot» de Beckett (1999). Entre 1996 y 1998 se exhibieron sus cerámicas y carteles. Además, dirigió junto a Cesc Gelabert el espectáculo «Zoom-zoom-ca», presentado en 1998 en el Festival de Música y Danza de Granada. Otro de sus trabajos incluye la dirección de la película «Viaje a la luna» (1998).