BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY 

Jordi Rodríguez-Amat was born in November 1944 in Sta. Coloma de Gramenet, a town near Barcelona.

 

The street where he was born in Sta. Coloma de Gramanet, (Barcelona)

Window of the room where he was born

 

Painting of amateur artist Damià Roig

 
As my parents explained to me many, many times, my birth was a true epic. The mother started to feel the first contractions around nine in the evening. It was a night of great thunder. Lightning and thunder lit up the sky, and a great deluge fell. The father, in a hurry, went to find the midwife. Pepita, my sister, was ten years old. It was a quarter past ten, and I hadn't taken my head off yet when the light went out. Currents, heating water and searching for candles. It was at quarter past ten when, with a loud heavenly thunder, water falling on the dojo, and the light of candles, I made my entrance into this world.
  

 

In 1956, at the age of eleven, he left primary school and start working as a wall painter with his father. In the afternoons he attended drawing and painting lessons given by the Catalan painter Josep Alumà Sanz in Barcelona. In the evenings Rodríguez Amat attended a professional training school for decorators.

In September 1960, three months after having finished his studies there, he entered the Fine Art School in Barcelona. In 1964 he completed his degree at the School. Later he got his Master's in art and in technical architecture.

After finishing his academic studies in Bacelona, he had the opportunity to discover the avant-garde world of art in Paris.

Between 1965 and 1969, Rodríguez-Amat lived in Barcelona, Paris and Munich. After 1970, he settled in Barcelona where he went on with his creative activity.

Since 1994 he start living in Les Olives (Garrigoles), a farming town on the Costa Brava, where he has created the Rodríguez-Amat Center for Contemporary Art. The Rodríguez-Amat Foundation.

 

Jordi Rodríguez-Amat's artistic activity takes the form of a constant production in the field of all plastic arts: painting, sculpture, photography, graphic work, etc. His artistic work has been created over the course of seventy years since he received the first notions of drawing at the age of five. His artistic output is estimated at many, many thousands of works.

 

TEACHING ACTIVITY

Jordi Rodríguez-Amat has carried out a teaching activity for more than 30 years as a teacher of drawing, art, art history, descriptive geometry, etc. He has been a teacher at different private schools and secondary education institutes, at the School of Teachers of the University of Barcelona and at the Technical School of Industrial Engineers in Terrassa. After a few years of teaching activity as head of the artistic high school of the I.E.S. from the Bisbal d'Empordŕ, in 2004, Jordi Rodríguez-Amat left the teaching activity to devote himself fully to the world of artistic creation.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY 

STUDIES AND TRAINING COURSES AND ARTISTIC AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

.- Liceo Las Artes (Josep Alumŕ Sans) 1956 - 1960.

.- Decorator painter. Barcelona School for Painters and Decorators 1957 - 1960.

.- Studies at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona (1960 - 1964) obtaining the title of Art teacher.

 

.- Fine arts school. (Facultat de Belles Arts. (Barcelona university) 1970.

.- Free residency and studies in Paris. 1965.

.- Tecnical architect (School of Technical Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. 1972.

.- Doctoral courses at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

.- Studies of French language and literature at the University of Dijon (France).

.- French diploma certificate. (Official Language School of Barcelona)

.- Studies of French language and literature at the University of Dijon (France).

.- English language studies at the American Institute of Barcelona.

.- German Language Studies (Goethe institute in Heidelberg) and (Goethe institute in Munich)

.- Teacher of Drawing, history, art history, mathematics, French language and literature in private schools.

.- Baccalaureate professor and teacher in several public institutes.

.- He passed the examinations for high school teaching with number 1 out of a hundred opponents from all over Spain.

.- German language studies (Goethe institute Heidelberg).

.- Teacher of drawing, history, art history, mathematics, French language and literature in private schools. privées.

.- Twenty years preparing Bachelors in Fine Arts for the competitions for drawing professors of public Institutes of Catalonia in the College of Doctors and Bachelors in Fine Arts.

.- Professor of drawing and drawing pedagogy at the School of Teachers of the University of Barcelona.

.- Professor of Descriptive Geometry at the Higher School of Industrial Engineers in Terrassa (Polytechnic University of Catalonia).

.- He created and directed until his retirement the artistic baccalaureate at the Institute of La Bisbal d'Empordŕ.

.- Artistic residency and Chinese language studies in Beijing (October, November, and December 2007)

.- Constant creative activity since the age of eleven

.- Numerous exhibitions in art galleries and other centers and museums.

.- Creation of the House-Workshop, Rodríguez-Amat Foundation. www.rodriguez-amat.cat.

Jordi Rodríguez-Amat has devoted many years to teaching, which has allowed him, in addition to satisfying his vocational spirit of transmitting knowledge, to devote himself freely to creative activity without the need to be subject in the art market.

Jordi Rodríguez-Amat has traveled and lived for long periods in different parts of the world: France, Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden, Italy, Greece, Egypt, India, the United States and China.

Through his language studies, he speaks and writes five languages correctly: Catalan, Spanish, French, English and German. Although he speaks Chinese, he has decided not to cultivate this language any more.