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 The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California: Architecture and archeology sweep the strangely beautiful images of Frederic Amat, a Spanish painter born in Barcelona in 1953. Hard to categorize, his works are thick with collaged elements, brewed with wax, paper pulp and burlap. His roots are deep in the Spanish soil, from the cave-dwelling Cro-Magnons, who ground oxides and ochers on the Altamira walls, to the austere expressionism of Spanish Romanesque frescoes, dripping with martyr's blood; he emerges out of this rich history a standard-bearer. His work, which includes collage, paintings, objects, costumes and scenery, is singularly evocative in all mediums.
From 1977 to 1979, Amat lived in Oaxaca, Mexico, where his work consisted of three dimensional structures with numerous different collages. For the next seven years he worked in New York City, creating ephemeral images with wax on handmade papers.
Sources include: Judd Tully in ARTnews, March 1988 Mary Schneider Enriquez in ARTnews, May 1994.
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