Exhibition "Frederic Amat"
2 February 2027 – 21 February 2027
Gran Teatre del Liceu, el Raval, Ciutat Vella
Frederic Amat (Barcelona, 1952) will be one of the guest artists for the 2026-2027 season at Gran Teatre del Liceu. A singular figure and multidisciplinary artist, his contribution places him as a great magician-poet of the contemporary art scene. Painter, set designer, filmmaker and cross-disciplinary creator, Amat has developed a career marked by a constant search into language, gesture and the capacity of the image to generate experience beyond representation. His work is articulated as an open field of experimentation in which painting, drawing, object, space and movement contaminate one another. Colour —dense, visceral, often wounded— becomes living matter, capable of constructing emotional spaces before recognisable forms. In Amat's work, the line does not describe; it erupts. Every gesture seems to arise from a physical, almost organic need, as though the image were the trace of an action that took place at a precise and unrepeatable moment. Deeply connected to the world of the stage, his work has maintained an ongoing dialogue with theatre, opera and music, bringing a visual perspective that understands space as a body under tension. His collaborations with creators from…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026