Kirjahaku

Amat's open conception of art has led him to incorporate a range of disciplines into his practice: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, book illustration, audiovisual media, set design, and interventions into architectural spaces. This book offers a selection of his interventions into public and private spaces, often with architectural connection, in both natural and urban contexts. It provides an excellent opportunity to understand Amat's vital and original artistic imagery.

Amat, an artist who specializes in stains, did not miss this opportunity to document this manifestation of traditional folklore and anthropological significance. Immersed in the tumult black tar, recording with his camera the ink-stained celebrants, Amat produced a series of images on which later he made subtle interventions with black paint, bringing out a sense of movement, masking a face, or underlining a fleeting trace. The dance of ink with ink is heightened into a striking dialogue of blackened surfaces.