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Zamor, born in March 8, 1951 in Colombia, is a Colombian and French Painter, Sculptor and Writer. He became known by his big paintings and the treatment from his male and female subjects with a technique that wasn't neither the Realism nor the Hyperrealism. Influenced by the Italians Mannerists, the Impossible figures and the Anamorphosis, and the trompe-l’oeil, technique borrow to the Renaissance, that he studies and admires in the entire museums from Europe, passing through Amsterdam, Zürich, Madrid and Paris, and that he controls with a great dexterity mixed them and creating his own and unique tendency that he calls “Suprarealism”. Like he use to says, “in the surrealism the absurd elements are evident, but in the suprarealism the absurd go into the logic of seeing, being in fact unnoticed”. Zamor live in Europe since 1974, doing the longs stages in Rome, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Zürich, Stockholm and Madrid to develop and finish his humanistic studies before to create his own artistic style.

Education
As well as he was decided to be un artist painter and sculptor, Zamor didn’t want to study in the Art’s Academy, because he considered priority to have a humanistic and literature education to be better prepared for an artistic career. Initially he obtains his Architecture’s Deug at the Javeriana’s University in Bogota, Colombia, where he deeply learned the fundaments of descriptive, perspective, draw, etc. Then he decides to orient his studies in Letters. He start with a licentiate degree in Philosophy and Letters then a Master's degree in History at the Javeriana’s University from Bogota. After that he leaves his country to go to Paris in 1974 where he continues his humanistic’s studies and he gets a Master's degree in Litterature at the Sorbonne University, Paris IV. Then a Ph.D degree in History at the Sorbonne’s University, Paris IV and finally, a licentiate degree in Art’s History at the Grenoble’s University in France. In 1976, after traveling and studying all the Europe’s museums, he decides to consecrate his life to painting and sculpture in Paris.

Exhibitions in France, 1970’s
It’s in Grenoble, France, in the Café Bayard, a place for artist’s meetings, actors and intellectuals from the town, that Zamor will do his first exhibition in 1978. From his beginning he was remarked by the press with his first individual interview. His very personal style is inspired from men and women nudes, although the practice of a very classical technique in oil paintings, recognized by the critiques After that it begins a serial of individual exhibitions : Galerie Madeleine, Grenoble, 1979, Galerie d’Art Moderne, Orange, France en 1979, où M. Ph. Chabro at the last word, the Baron Olivier de Serres writing the very eulogize articles about this new artist in the newspaper Le Provençal ; and for this decade the last one exhibition is in the Galerie du Musée, Nernier, France, 1979.

In 1980, the journalists from the Rhône-Alpes region, chose Zamor to represent the region to the 91º Independents Salon in the Grand Palais in Paris.

Exhibitions in Venezuela and Colombia
After these success like artist in France, Zamor travel to Colombia to spend his winter Holydays 1979. Very soon after he arrived, he meets that one who will be his model for the “Saint Sebastian”. He opens a studio and starts to paint inspired by this model and the nature he discovers. He thought to remains for three months, instead he stayed one year and half, giving the occasion to exhibit in different places. The first one in his natal town, Cúcuta, in the “Culture house”, then in Venezuela, in the San Cristobal’s town, at the Galerie J.M. Oliveros. After one year he met in Bogota the National Advisory Gustavo Humberto Rodríguez who discovers the Zamor’s work and invites him to a great individual exhibition in the San Carlos House, before Presidential house, in January 1981. The same exhibition is immediately reclaimed by the Contemporary Art’s Museum. The national press from Colombia discovered a new artist. . At the end of 1981, Zamor travel back to Paris. He leaves all his Art Works from these two years in the Contemporary Art’s Museum’s depository.

Exhibitions and press releasses, 1980’s
Back from Colombia, Zamor stay in Paris. For one year and a half he frequency the Louvre’s Museum, studying in a systematically way, and with his historical formation, all the art works from the Museum. The Grenoble’s Mayor gives to Zamor a place to set up his Art Studio. Here he confirme his style getting in new elements in his draws and pictures: the Anamorphosis and the Tromple l’oeil. In 1985 Zamor do another exhibition in the Grenoble’s Theater, with just only one picture on canvas and all the draws and studies around the same subject. . The Art’s critic and History Art’s teacher in Florence (Italy) and in Grenoble (France), Philippe Renard, invite Zamor to the la Pieve a Elici, in Lucca, Italy, to know him for to write an interview that will appear in the Magazine "Connaissances des Hommes" in Paris in 1985 and then his greek translation in the Literary magazine ΠΟΔΙΟΡΚΙΑ, appears in Athens in 1985.

The Eolia’s Gallery, 10 rue de Seine in Paris, put his eyes on his art works and takes him under exclusivity en 1986. It organize different exhibitions with Zamor’s draws that will be commented by the presse release from Paris: in the arts magazine L'Œil the newspaper Le Figaro, the weekly Le Point and in the Art’s Anthology book written by the Art critics Gérard Xuriguera at the Mayer’s editions. Then he is sold out in the auction market at the « Salle Drouot, Cabinet Catherine Charbonneaux”,in Paris the 24 April 1988.

Exhibitions and travels in 1990’s
Zamor travel and works a lot, founding a new place of inspiration by everywhere. He goes from Ardèche to Paris, then to Grenoble, before to arrives to the tropical sea, then from the country side to the great hills of the Andes’s Cordillera to Porto Rico And, every travel gives the reason to the news exhibitions. A Bogota, in Colombia, he does one at the “Galerie d'Art” in the World Trade Center in 1991 and 1992 et then he exhibit in Barranquilla, Colombia, in December 1992. After that he decides to stay to live the entire 1993 year in Cartagena, Colombia, and then in the high plateau from the Andes’s Cordillera since the end of 1993 to May 1996, when he decides to return back to France. At the beginning of the 1997 year he was invited to exhibit his Art works in San Juan de Puerto Rico, and, another time whit Carolina Herrera in 2000.

Style
The best way to describe the Zamor Style may be through the different commentaries from the international press release as long as his career. Since de first exhibitions we found that Zamor «…nous propose un monde à la fois érotique, fantastique et superbement alangui, dans ces marécages du corps où s’architecturent les émotions les plus éclectiques … » and, from the other side of the ocean they saids that the Zamor’s subject: ” …es absolutamente contemporánea… su forma artística está  inspirada en los lineamientos clásicos, y el argumento de su pintura, casi  helenísticamente, se sumerge en la filosofía y la cultura griega …”. Later, in France, they recall him by « … les très beaux dessins de Zamor… dessins d’une telle qualité qu’ils font espérer que le talent de leur auteur sera un jour plus largement reconnu. » and then they touch the source of his inspiration when they saids : « …ses recherches apparentent son art à la grande époque du maniérisme. Avec lui, naissent les certitudes plastiques modernes dont Rodin a donné le nom : « un art digne de ce nom ne suit pas le passé, il le prolonge » so about his poetry « … Zamor nous surprend avec des dessins d’une musicalité aérienne, chantant sous son crayon en le laissant vibrer… » and his quality « … Sofia Vari et Zamor, qui, eux sont des dessinateurs chevronnés… » It’s, in Paris, where the critiques from very known journalists confirm his talent « … imaginaire que Zamor, le colombien devenu grenoblois, excite aussi avec ses corps drapés ou ses frontons si minutieusement et si monumentalement dessinés qu’on en a le vertige… » and « ... Zamor est sûr de ses moyens: il façonne avec un futurisme imaginaire la vraisemblance plus que la ressemblance… » wrote in the book of artistc anthology from Xuriguera. Later Zamor integrate a new element in his picture, the trompe-l’œil and its quickly rewarded by the critics: « … sus acrílicos poseen una magia ilusionista lograda a partir de la técnica del “trompe-l’œil” en una estrecha combinación con personajes desnudos que dan cuenta de su maestría en el dibujo… », be confirmed almost immediatly in France by Sylvie Perrard : « … ses œuvres s’imposent par le jeu incessant entre le rêve et la réalité… » and then a new dimention is discovered in the Zamor pictures with the comment donne in an American Island about his portraits : «A través de sus pinturas, el artista Zamor interpreta el alma, el interior de cada persona… No se sabe dónde termina la obra y comienza el marco…”

Public Collections
When Zamor was working with the Eolia Galery in Paris, this one put his artworks in auction sales in Drouot, Paris, the 24 april 1988; At he same time in Colombia, the corporation “El Minuto de Dios” from Eudists community commands him a picture from “Saint Jean Eudes” for the Contemporary Art’s Museum in Bogotá; The Colombia’s president, Belisario Betancur, ask toZamor, in 1984, “The black Christ” to be part of the Collection Betancur in the Presidential “Nariño’s House “ from Colombia, with Botero and other remarked Colombian painters. ; Others artworks are in public collections like « Eve » in the “Museo de la Memoria”, in Cucuta, Colombia; some draws were bought by an Aviation company in Bogota, for the Avianca’s Collection, open to the public.

Historian career
During his Hystory’s studies at the University in Bogota he was the monitor from his teacher, Ph.D. Manuel Lucena Salmoral and he pubblish, like historien, in the Universitas Humanísticas from the Javeriana’s University, in Bogota, Colombia, many articles between 1971 to 1974 : Elementos decorativos del arte Muisca en los volantes de huso (50 pages). Other-ones based in the paléographies original’s documents from the XVI century, conserved by the Nationals Archives from Colombia : Catálogo de documentos existentes en el Archivo Histórico Nacional para el período 1564 - 1580 (80 pages) ; Ordenanças del Señor Doctor Antonio Gonzalez y del Señor Miguel de Ybarra (20 pages) ; Catálogo de documentos existentes en el Archivo Histórico Nacional para el período 1580- 1597 (110 pages) ; Encomiendas en el Nuevo Reino de Granada durante el período presidencial del Doctor Antonio Gonzalez (1590-1597) (100 pages) ; Catálogo de documentos existentes en el Archivo Histórico Nacional para el período 1597 - 1605 (90 pages) ; Then he writes the a part of the history from his natal town, El sitio de Cúcuta, published by the Institute of Culture and Arts from Cúcuta (50 pages). Then, in France, ath the Sorbonne University in Paris, Zamor is choosed by Monsieur the Professeur Jacques Lafaye like his assistant while he does his Ph.D. thesis in History but Zamor leave his studies in 1976 to work entirely in his art’s works.

Other media and works
With the Internet’s arrival, Zamor studies the informatics, to arrive and put in line the whole collection of his art works. From 1998 to 2004 he creates and develops his website www.zamor.com that he puts in line in 2004. At the same time he wrote a philosophical and biographical book, “Le Quêteur d’âmes”, in French (640 pages, 1999 - 2004).