Amador
Biography
Amador comes from Mallorca, where he was born in Pollensa in 1957. He has been exhibiting worldwide since 1978 and is represented at the most important international art fairs. Some of his exhibitions have been spectacular. For example, "Fluctuations" at the Georg-Kolbe-Museum in Berlin (2005) and "Temple de Cel" at the Esglésoa de Convent de Sant Domingo, Pollensa, Mallorca (2007).
The creation myth plays a major role in many of Amador's works. His dialog partner is often the earth itself, the soil. Some of his works were created by pouring a mold into the earth. Some inclusions may remain, like insects trapped in amber. The abstract structure of the reliefs, the translucent character of the material (sometimes dyed), the direct relationship to the earth and the relics of reality are points of reference in a finely spun web of relationships. These mark nodes in a network of great associative power.
This is about the creation of God, the god-like creative power of the artist (which was already a theme for Albrecht Dürer), the myth of Mother Earth and so on. The explicit reference to creation gives Amador's work a theological dimension that embeds it firmly in a tradition of the history of ideas. This is also an element of reconstruction, above all because he does not directly quote any iconographic elements.
His human figures, large and small, appear to be in the process of being created, even though they already exist. And this in turn represents a reconstruction of the creative process. However, the theological dimension does not refer to a specific religion.
Amador has also created large-format reliefs in which figures appear because the material is colored - an allusion to the possibilities of becoming.
In some works, Amador uses his characteristically shaped figures to populate an otherwise undefined pictorial space. This sometimes echoes the pixel structure of computerized images because it is made of wide-striped (and often silvery) fabric. A similar material was also the image carrier for works with processed photographs, bridging the gap between the pointillists and contemporary media.
Francesco Fiol Amengual, Minister of Education and Culture of the Balearic Government, said in a speech about Amador: "The human family that he creates in his works is the result of an intense ... study, because there is no doubt that what we call culture and attribute to conceptual thought involves numerous and complex aspects of individual behavior. ... The people depicted in his works represent individuals immersed in their own being, who bear witness to the legacy of early civilizations and are thus attributed to diversification and innovation - which means nothing other than building a bridge between the past and the future via this unyielding present."
Exhibitions
Museum and single exhibitions (selection)
2024
En dialogo: Museo y colección' at Museu Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca (till May 5th, 2024)
Museu Casa Natal Costa i Llobera, Pollença, Mallorca (current)
Grafica Contemporanea. Edicions Maior: 25 anys’ at the Sala Josep Renau, at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain.
Permanent work at Fundación Coster Art i Natura, Pollença, Mallorca
2020
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Collective exhibition ‘Esculturas de la colección Circa XX’, IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, Spain
2019
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2018
‘Desde la otra orilla’, MAD Antequera, Málaga
2015
Vierzig! Kunstverein Eisenturm
2014
Kunst hoch 3, Kunstverein Eisenturm
2007
“Temple de Cel”, (Temple of the Sky) Centre of Contemporaneous Art, Málaga
2006
"Fronteres", 9ª Bienal de La Habana. Casa de África. La Habana, Cuba
2005
Fluctuacions, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
2004
AENA Colección Arte Contemporáneo, Sala Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa Vitoria
Viegis, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
2003
Fackelherz & Falkenrot, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
Com es fan les imatges. Das Mallorca Atelier, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Fusión.Binomio, arte y empresa, Atkearney, Madrid
Derives, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander
2002
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
2001
Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle/Saale
Pabellón de Mixtos, Ciudadela de Pamplona