Fernando Adam

Born in Caracas (1955), he studied art and design at the Instituto Neumann. He complemented his artistic studies with professional practices in carpentry and industrial design to be later integrated in the early stages of his art work. By overlaying diverse techniques in the use of industrial paints over wood supports, Adam seeks to explore the limits of painting as construction in the creation of his first Objetos Límite (limit objects) as expressive media.

The same object becomes later a support for a dialectical relation with the pictorial space in his bi-dimensional work. From the initial paintings of weightless tension between the abstract environments and the objects, Adam evolves into a more representational proposal where the house —as a main theme— becomes the locus for examining subjective notions of identity, displacement and temporality. In the creation of illusionary perspectives, the chair, the table, the stair, the window, or the door are stable presences to inhabit domestic space from which to regard the world and the existence. But the house becomes also an unfinished object floating into an ever changing landscape to challenge essential human questions over the sense of time and permanence.

In his recent wor...

Neumann Graphic Design Institute / Caracas Venezuela

AAF Brussels, Villa del Arte Galleries, Bélgica
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Villa del Arte Galleries, EEUU
Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show, Villa del Arte Galleries, EEUU
India Art Fair, Villa del Arte Galleries, Nueva Delhi, India
Singapore Worlds Apart, Villa del Arte Galleries, Singapore
New Art Fair, Villa del Arte Galleries, París, Francia
LA Art Show, Villa del Arte Galleries, Los Angeles, EEUU