Ferran Garcia Sevilla

Spanish painter Ferran Garcia Sevilla is a collector of images. His eclectic pictorial style draws on his travels in the Middle East, comic books, urban graffiti, and philosophy, resulting in great sensuous open spaces in which everything blends together. His raw, colorful, primitive canvases are often peppered with caustic, hand-scrawled commentaries on life and politics. These paintings display the use of automatism, playfulness, flat symbols, and figures floating over solid ground. Turning to ancient and non-Western sources, he has long employed religious symbols, such as the hand, circle, tree, triangle, and cross. His aim is to empower and also challenge these charged forms, not to trivialize them.


Ferran Garcia Sevilla's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows internationally, including Foundation Cartier, Paris, IVAM, Valencia, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Renia Sofía, Madrida, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. He took part in the 1986 Venice Biennial as well as in the 1987 Documenta in Kassel.


Courtesy of Irish Museum of Modern Art