Ferran García Sevilla

Set-3, 1984

Palma (Mallorca), 1949

With a degree in Art History and Modern and Contemporary History in Barcelona, Ferran Garcia Sevilla has a prominent role as an art critic and theoretician, he has also been a professor of Fine Arts at various universities. He is one of the pioneers of conceptual art, where one of his lines of research would be nature. In his work we also observe a commitment to social denunciation, showing the injustices that happened with the Franco regime and his state security forces.

His beginnings in the seventies are marked by conceptualism, where through video and photography the function of art and the artist is questioned, as well as the mechanisms of consumption. The influence of artists such as Ràfols-Casamada, Tàpies or Miró is present in his works, and it will be from the eighties when it is reflected in a rapid brushstroke that will transmit the idea of primitivism, with the use of phrases or everyday objects with the objective of of linking signs and images. In the nineties he made works where the details of the body stand out, becoming progressively more introspective through the superimposition of lines and the use of the dripping technique.