Amador
In his artistic work, sculptor and painter Amador focuses on the human figure. His paintings are full of wraithlike shapes, reduced to their basic forms and seeming like shadows. In his mouldings of people, any physical articulation is taken back; biding and multiplying themselves, the silhouettes appear as full figures or torsos.
However, none of the shadows is like the other, the contours are smooth or unsettled, frontal or in profile. Some are mere silhouettes, others are filled with a maze of winding lines like nerve cords. With every little modification of the composition, the figures gain a bit of exceptionality, each of them has its own life. Nothing personal is revealed though. In image sections structured by lines and colour crosshatching, the figures appear in groups without any discernible joint connections.
In his paintings, the artist creates an imaginary portrait gallery, which does not show definable groups but just humans in general. Amador´s works are about the human that leaves behind the subjective and individual and becomes an object of projection to those who observe it.
Since 1978, the eclectic work of Amador, who was born in Pollença, Mallorca in 1957, has been presented in various international solo exhibitions in galleries, art associations, museum and the world´s most significant art fairs.
lives and works in Pollença, Spain
born in Pollença, Spain
Galería Norai, Pollenca, Mallorca
Galería Marieta Gual, Cala d´Or , Mallorca
Galería Bearn, Palma de Mallorca
Ciutat de Palma dEscultura, Fundació B. March, Mallorca
Il Bienal de Pintura de les Balears, Itinerant Catalunya i Balears
Des de Pollenca, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca
Galería Maior, Pollenca, Mallorca
8 Espais - 8 Temps, Galerie Maior, Pollenca, Mallorca
Balearic Byways cultural confluences in the Mediterranean, Visions Center Washington Les Arts a lultima decada, Expo 92. Pabellón Balear, Sevilla Una Faceta del arte contemporáneo Espanol, Hyundai Art Museum, Seoul
Magatzem, Galerie Maior, Pollenca, Mallorca
Art Diari, Centre Cultural Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca
Presencies, Galerie Trinta, Santiago de Compostela
Presencies, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
En tres dimensions, Ses Voltes, Centre d´Exposicions, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
Galería Caz, Zaragoza
International Biennal of Graphic Art, Ljubljana
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Galerie Horschik + Schultz, Dresden
Galería Maior, Pollença, Mallorca
Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart
Germinacions, Casal Solleric, Ajuntament de Palma
AENA Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Municipal de Málaga
Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
AENA Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, Palacete del Embarcadero de Santander
BildObjekte, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Galeria Senda, Barcelona
Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle/Saale
Pabellón de Mixtos, Ciudadela de Pamplona
Galería Fernando Silió, Santander
Biennale Dubrovnick
Biennale Alexandria
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart
Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
Galería Max Estrella, Madrid
Casas y Ciudades, Museo International de Arte Contemporáneo, Lanzarote
Cinquanta anys d´artistes i poetes, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
AENA, Colección de Arte Contemporáneo.
Museo Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza.
Derives, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander
Fackelherz & Falkenrot, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
Com es fan les imatges. Das Mallorca Atelier, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Fusión.Binomio, arte y empresa, Atkearney, Madrid
Viegis, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
AENA Colección Arte Contemporáneo, Sala Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa Vitoria
Fluctuacions, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
"Fronteres", 9ª Bienal de La Habana. Casa de África. La Habana, Cuba