JAIME RICO AMADOR (Pamplona, 1978).
"Peces 2".
Mixed media (acrylic, transfer and drawing) on board.
Size: 100 x 70 x 3,5 cm.
Jaime Rico Amador graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (2004). He obtained an intermediate degree at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Villa Arson, Nice. In 2010 he was awarded the Villa de Aoiz Painting Prize. His most recent solo exhibitions include those held in the galleries Mdv (2012) and Mala Madrid (2010), Ormolú in Pamplona (2006, 2008, 2010), Artevistas in Barcelona (2008), Nave 10 in Valencia (2008), and group exhibitions in the galleries Paz Feliz in Madrid (2011), Muz-Martínez in Alicante (2011) and Ormulú (2011). In post-industrial cities, the global webs of networks and circuits coexist with massive industrial architecture. Jaime Rico Amador reflects on the disorientation of the passer-by immersed in jungles of steel and fibre optics. Each of his pictorial series is dedicated to this: in some he focuses on human flows, others are dedicated to children, others review the post-apocalyptic aesthetics that mythical films have given us. The sum of all of them offers a polyhedral vision of the urban environment. In his paintings, the past leaves an indelible patina on a present that is being built day by day, and denotes a constructive fever that masks this distrust of the future. This can be seen in this "Vertical Desert" where scaffolding and cranes are impregnated with mouldy pollution, and the tiny figures flee towards a void without a horizon. Despite staging dystopian megalopolises, Rico Amador's paintings are strangely warm and poetic because they speak to us of the sensitive memory of space.