XXI
Maria Brito curated XXI, a retrospective commemorating the the 40th anniversary of Enriquillo Amiama’s career, presenting 73 paintings organized in a thematic way at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from June to October 2022.
As a consummate communicator, voracious student of art history and sharp observant of current events, the perspective of Enriquillo Amiama stands on both the universal and the local, which he mingles seamlessly in his work.
In his practice, which started in 1982 with a postmodernist approach that is anti-hierarchical by nature, Amiama moves with ease from abstraction, to still lifes, to landscapes, to figuration, refusing to be boxed in any single definition.
Often mixing different styles and media, he has created his own tropical pictorial language and blended it with a range of genres from the past and the present.
Obsessive with composition and technique, it’s possible to find paintings in Amiama’s body of work that combine the use of letters, words and graphic elements with hyperrealism and abstract shapes.
Being one of the most celebrated and prolific contemporary Dominican artists, Amiama has captured the essence of the Caribbean and unapologetically fused it with pop art.
The evolution of his work from the geometric forms of 1980s to the social media inspired paintings of the present, shows his insatiable curiosity for the world around him and his willingness to explore it with rigor in composition and elasticity in subject matters.
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