Frederic Amat y Asia | The transforming power of the journey

Frederic Amat (Barcelona, 1952) integrates in his creative work multiple languages with the ever-present ink, which he considers to be the artist's blood. At the age of 48 he made his first trip to India, where he got lost, stimulated by images, to end up finding the unexpected. First he travelled to the north (2000) and three years later to the south, where he lived in a rice boat from which he films "the river, again the river, always the river". For a month he walks around Vanarasi with his eyes suspended, discovering in the cable connections real Shiva's hair. In 2010 he travelled to Japan for the first time to set up "Ki", a show with Japanese dancers and musicians masked with a cabbage leaf with which he subverts his code, which he first learns in depth. On his walks around Tokyo he understands that "in Japan, life is a ceremony."
Second episode of the mini-documentary series entitled "Asia and I. Conversations with Artists", which includes extracts from interviews with thirteen artists by the curatorial team of the exhibition "The Asian Principle. China, Japan and India and contemporary art in Spain (1957-2017)" as part of the oral history project "Asia and contemporary art in Spain".
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