Amelia Riera

AMELIA RIERA (Barcelona, 1934- 2019)
Untitled.
Lithograph on handmade paper.
Print run of 100 copies, of which 10 are out of commerce.
Embossed mark of the Funamment Foundation.
Measurements: 29 cm. x 19,5 cm. (print); 36 x 50 cm (paper).

Amelia Riera is one of the artists who have offered their works to Fundación Funamment (Salut Mental), to help improve the quality of life of people with mental health problems. In addition to acquiring a work of a reference artist, you make it easier for us to continue accompanying these people and improving their quality of life.

A pioneer of Catalan Informalism, she has worked in drawing, painting and engraving. In 1964 she left this movement with the series;Ex-votoS; where she reflects a turn without return towards an intimate art full of symbolism and where death is read between the lines. He is a founding member of the Ciclo de Arte de Hoy in 1962. His particular world has been shown in exhibitions all over Europe (Stockholm, Toulouse, Paris, Milan, Berlin) and America (Buenos Aires).
A major work of his artistic career is the orthopedic-electric chair "Le llevaron engañado" (1971) currently located in the Contemporary Art Space Can Mario de Palafurgell (Girona). Also noteworthy is "marginalized", 3 Points Gallery in Barcelona (1975); "Cube. 4 proposals ", Palau Robert
of Barcelona (1995); "Amelia's Prisons" Art Museum of Girona (2007).