Antonio Pamies
Central page of De Qvuommic, 1974; published in De Qvommic, 1974. Mixed media on cardboard, 29.5 x 42.3 cm
Antonio Pamies
La pelota vasca, n.d. [1973?]; published in El Rrollo Enmascarado, October 1973. Ink on cardboard, 31.8 x 24.3 cm
Antonio Pamies
El bandolero Bigotez, n.d. [1973?]; published in El Rrollo Enmascarado, October 1973. Mixed media on cardboard, 32.5 x 25.4 cm
Antonio Pamies
Suceso callejero, July-August 1973; published in Catalina, 1974. Mixed media on cardboard, 42 x 28.1 cm
Roger, Javier Mariscal, Antonio Pamies, Isa
Ellos han insistido, 1974; published in De Qvommic, 1974. Mixed media on cardboard, 31 x 22 cm
Antonio Pamies
Demassiao pa’ mi, 1973; published in De Qvommic, 1974. Mixed media on cardboard, 37.5 x 26.4 cm
Antonio Pamies
El capicúa maldito (una historia morbosa como la vida misma), January-February 1975; published in Purita, 1975. Ink on cardboard, 29 x 20.5 cm [selection]
Antonio Pamies
Punxa; Vaja, quin fenomen més estrany!, 1974-1975; published in Purita, 1975. Ink on cardboard, 30.3 x 20.5 cm
Antonio Pamies
Don Pixot de l’eixampla, 1975-1976; published in Picadura Selecta, 1976. Mixed media on cardboard, 29.9 x 21.2 cm [selection]
Antonio Pamies
Nebdul’s got ‘d’ blues, 1975; published in A la calle, 1977. Ink on cardboard, 30.2 x 20.4 cm
Antonio Pamies
Neura en las tinieblas, 1975; published in El sidecar, 1977. Ink on cardboard, 30.9 x 21.5 cm [selection]
Antonio Pamies
Nunca dejé de quererte, n.d. [1975?]; published in Carajillo vacilón, 1976. Collage on cardboard, 27.9 x 20.6 cm [selection]
Antonio Pamies
Rock alemán, n.d. [1976?]; published in Rock Comix, 1976. Ink on cardboard, 21.5 x 15 cm approx.
100 originals, publications and documentation.
Antonio Pamies was born in Prague, capital of the former Czechoslovakia, in 1956. When he was a year and a half old he moved to France and at the age of 15 he arrived in Spain. In the Barcelona of the last years of the Franco regime and the first years of the transition to democracy his drawings appeared in the historic magazine Rrollo Enmascarado and in other underground and countercultural publications of the time. After disappearing from view for a time, he returned to the scene as a regular contributor to the the magazine El Víbora in its early years. He is currently a professor in General Linguistics Department at the University of Granada. He is the author of dozens of scientific publications, as well as a lecturer and a visiting professor in Moscow, Kiev and Paris. Pamies is a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. He has also served as vice-president of the European Society of Phraseology. Among others, he has published the books El arte del insulto. Estudio lexicográfico (1997, in collaboration with Juan de Dios Luque and Francisco José Manjón), El lenguaje de los enfermos (2003, together with Francisca Rodríguez Simón), and Los modos verbales en español y en polaco (2015, together with Wiaczeslaw Nowikow). In addition to his academic activity, Pamies is a jazz scholar and amateur guitarist.
Archivo Lafuente preserves 100 documents by this artist among its collections. These include magazines, assorted publications, correspondence and an important original set of drawings from comics such as Don Pixot de l’eixampla, El capicúa maldito, Neura en las tinieblas, La pelota vasca, Nunca dejé de quererte, Rock alemán, Carpanta en la última cena and the original drawings for the publication De Qvommic, El Rrollo aristócrata.