FERRÁN GARCÍA SEVILLA (Palma de Mallorca, 1949). "Habitant del Sol", 1982. Mixed media on card. Signed in pencil in the lower left-hand corner.

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  FERRÁN GARCÍA SEVILLA (Palma de Mallorca, 1949). "Habitant del Sol", 1982. Mixed media on card. Signed in pencil in the lower left-hand corner. Measurements: 76 x 112 cm; 98 x 131 cm (frame). Initially linked to art theory and criticism, García Sevilla has been a professor of Fine Arts at various universities. He made his individual debut in 1972. After beginning his artistic career in conceptual art, he turned to painting and graphic art, within the framework of so-called post-modern art. He is accustomed to placing well-defined figures, often anthropomorphic, on neutral backgrounds or with insistently repeated motifs. He uses rich, vivid and contrasting colour ranges, with a simplified language, sometimes close to primitive art. García Sevilla's huge paintings, his forceful images, his often brutal humour, the texts that occupy part of the surface of these paintings, his expressive capacity, have become familiar to both Spanish and foreign viewers. Endowed with an imagination almost as prodigious as his will, García Sevilla is a veritable machine for producing paintings, for devouring and transforming images. All this finds its translation on the verbal plane: since his famous interview with Kevin Power, collected in the latter's book "Conversations with..." (1985), no one doubts that he is a real machine for producing paintings, for devouring and transforming images. (1985), nobody doubts that García Sevilla is one of the Spanish painters who has more things to say, and who, under the appearance of improvisation and, if necessary, delirium, gives more thought to the meaning of his work. In this respect, his case is reminiscent of that of Miró, to whom he has always shown great admiration. He has had solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States, and has participated in group exhibitions in Hamburg, Vienna, Munich, St. Petersburg, Lisbon and various Spanish cities, as well as in Documenta in Kassel (1987) and the Istanbul (1989) and São Paulo (1996) Biennials. His solo exhibitions in recent years include the Elga Wimmer Gallery in New York (1992), the Thomas Netusil Kunsthandel in Vienna (2000) and the Fúcares gallery in Madrid (2008). García Sevilla is represented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris - Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, the CaixaForum in Barcelona, the Fundación Suñol, the Museo Colecciones Ico, the Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca, the IVAM in Valencia, the Fundación Juan March, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the ARTIUM in Vitoria and the MuHKA in Antwerp.
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