Fernando Adam currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Born in Caracas in 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 creative 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 floating 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 external world. But the house becomes also a mutant and unfinished object floating into an ever changing landscape to challenge essential human questions over time and the sense of permanence.

In his recent work Adam goes further in the investigation of these constructive qualities. The surface of the canvas is broken into fragments to create a sense of something between two and three dimensions. The compositional values of light, weight and balance found in his refined pictorial technique are clearly set up in the assembly of the parts. The painting as an object becomes then a frame to hold the scattered pieces together.  But the dialectical tension created between representation and materiality in this work seems to capture one instant of time, a present built from different dimensions of reality. This back and forward in the observation of the house as unattached object, but also as environment of architectural enclosure in the framing of landscape, creates a dual perception in a constant play between inside and outside, presence and absence, inclusion and exclusion.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2011

• Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. Palm Beach, USA
• Art Madrid. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Madrid, Spain
• Art Chicago/Contemporary Art Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. Chicago, USA
• Individual: Inside-Out. Mark Hachem Gallery. Paris, France

2010

• Los Angeles Art Show. Villa del Arte Galleries. Los Angeles, USA
• MIART Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Milan, Italy
• Collective: Pixel. Galería GBG. Caracas, Venezuela
• AAF New York. Villa del Arte Galleries. New York, USA
• Art Miami. Mark Hachem Gallery. Miami, USA

2009

• Individual: Asentamiento. Galería 39. Caracas, Venezuela
• Glasgow Art Fair. Villa del Arte Galleries. Glasgow, Scotland
• ST-ART European Contemporary Art Fair. Jordi Barnadas. Strasbourg, France
• AFF London. Villa del Arte Galleries. London, UK
• 18th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 2009). Galería 39. Caracas, Venezuela
• Red Dot Art Fair. Villa del Arte Galleries. Miami, USA

2008

• Palm Beach 3 Contemporary Art Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. Miami, USA
• Individual: Anada i Tornada. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Barcelona, Spain
• MiArt. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Milan, Italy
• 17th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 2008). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela
• Collective: Spazio Forni. Ragusa-Sicily, Italy
• ST-ART European Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Strasbourg, France
• Padua Art Fair. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Padua, Italyi

2007

• Art Miami. Mark Hachem Gallery. Miami, USA
• Palm Beach 3 Contemporary Art Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. Miami, USA
• International Art + Design Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. New York, USA
• Individual: Diàlegs, monòlegs i silencis. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Barcelona, Spain
• Art Moscow. Mark Hachem Gallery. Moscow Russia
• MiArt. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Milan, Italy
• ST-ART European Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Strasbourg, France
• Individual: Diálogos en dos idiomas. Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

2006

• Miami Art Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. Miami, USA
• Individual: Diálogos, monólogos y silencios. Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela
• Art Paris. Galería Minotauro. Paris, France
• International Art + Design Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. New York, USA
• MiArt. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Milan, Italy
• Contemporary Art Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. Beijing, China
• Art Chicago. Mark Hachem Gallery. Chicago, USA
• Collective: Vistas y visiones. Studio Forni. Milan, Italy
• Verona Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Forni. Verona, Italy
• ST-ART European Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Strasbourg, France
• Art Toronto. Mark Hachem Gallery. Toronto, Canada
• Art Shanghai. Mark Hachem Gallery. Shanghai, China

2005

• Art Paris 2005. Galería Minotauro. Paris, France
• MiArt. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Milan, Italy
• Art London. Mark Hachem Gallery. London, UK
• International Art + Design Fair. Mark Hachem Gallery. New York, USA
• ST-ART European Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Jordi Barnadas. Strasbourg, France

2004

• Art Paris. Galería Minotauro. Paris, France

2003

• Collective: Galería Jorge Alcolea. Madrid, Spain

2002

• Art Miami. Galería Minotauro. Miami, USA
• 11th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 2002). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela
• Individual: Registros de viaje. Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

2001

• Individual: Paisajes Emocionales. Galería Portdoguer. Cadaqués, Spain
• Collective: Galería Jorge Albero. Madrid, Spain
• 10th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 2001). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

2000

• Individual: Obra Reciente. American Prints. Barcelona, Spain

1998

• 7th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 1998). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

1996

• 5th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 1996). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

1995

• 4th Latin American Art Fair (FIA 1995). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

1993

• Art Miami. Galería Minotauro. Miami, USA

1992

• 1st Latin American Art Fair (FIA 1992). Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela
• National Visual Arts Show. Museo Alejandro Otero. Caracas, Venezuela

1991

• Individual: De la serie visiones / Instalación 3. Galería Minotauro. Caracas, Venezuela

1989

• Aragua Show. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Maracay, Venezuela

1988

• National Art Show. Drawing Biennale. Museo Alejandro Otero. Caracas, Venezuela

SHOWS AND AWARDS

2007

• 58. Michetti Show - "Nuovo Realismo". Fundación Michetti. Chieti, Italy

2002

• 1st Prize "Mercedes Benz", A. Prints. Barcelona, Spain