Amadeo Azar

Born in Mar del Plata, Province of Buenos Aires in1972. Studied at the local art school obtaining a degree in photography. Was awarded several grants to pursue additional studies in Buenos Aires. Was co-founder and Director of MOPT, an alternative exhibition space which was very influential in the local contemporary art sceene of Mar del Plata. Amadeo Azar’s work has been shown in venues in the Americas and Europe, including exhibitions at A Gentil Carioca Gallery in Rio de Janeiro, Jacobo Karpio Gallery in San José de Costa Rica; Recoleta Cultural Center, Fortabat Art Collection and National Endowment for the Arts in Buenos Aires, Drawing Center, NYC and Queens Museum, New York. It is in the collections of Deutsche Bank, New York, Banco Supervielle, Buenos Aires, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires and many other public and private collections. He has received several awards in Argentina, the most recent being the Premio Bienal Banco Nación in 2012.

Amadeo Azar is interested in the visual languages of modernism inasmuch as they incarnated utopian sets of beliefs and views of the world and its future. He has focused on architectural and avant-garde movements of the first half of the XX Century exploring how they related to and had influence on political and social movements in Latin America, and the way that utopian moment was disarticulated as it encountered local circumstances and fell into dystopia.

Submitted by Dot Fiftyone Gallery