• The artist Ferran Garcia Sevilla donates to the Museu Nacional an important set of works from his conceptual period, which will be shown in rooms 81 bis and 52.
• In December, the Centre d’Art Tecla Sala presents the retrospective exhibition "Cosmos-Chaos" organized with the collaboration of the Museum.

The set of works given is of great historical importance, not only in terms of the career of Ferran Garcia Sevilla (Palma, 1949) but also in the context of the history of contemporary Catalan art, and represents a fundamental contribution to to the establishment of the national collection of post-war and second avant-garde art on which the Museum continues to work.

With this project, the Museu nacional continues to weave a network of collaborations and partnerships with public and private institutions that have been and still are key in the vindication and dissemination of this period.

It has been many years since there has been a major exhibition of the artist, a fact that makes this exhibition particularly relevant, which covers his entire career and reaches the most recent production, and which is presented right in the space where Garcia Sevilla himself occupied a workshop in 1988.

The donation

The set that enters the National Museum of Art of Catalonia is made up of 54 works from 1966 to 1974, made in the political context of the end of the Franco regime, which the artist denounces with virulence and subtlety at the same time. It also includes a series of works related to the Mallorcan landscape, which will be presented at the National Museum establishing a contrasting dialogue with the painting of Joaquim Mir.

In addition to the donation of these 54 works, Ferran Garcia Sevilla also deposited in the Museum a series of 45 photographs taken in 1974 from images cut from the press and associated with violence, death, torture and war.

Before his immersion in the painting of the eighties of the twentieth century, Ferran Garcia Sevilla was one of the most outstanding pioneers of conceptual art, with very diverse and radical proposals, using the object, poor materials and the photography, often as a performative record.

In the works that form part of the Museu Nacional's collection, you can also appreciate the artist's constant preoccupation with the contemplation of nature and the questioning of the physical laws of the cosmos. It is a rather unknown work that allows to deal with a whole series of key problems such as advances in quantum physics, the definition of art and its place in society, the psycho-sociology of the image or the denunciation of abuses of power and authority.

A selection of the works that make up this donation will be exhibited at the Museum at the end of the year, as was already done with the donations of works by Aurèlia Muñoz or Benet Rossell.

Cosmos-Chaos at the Centre d’Art Tecla Sala

In parallel, the Centre d'Art Tecla Sala, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional, is organizing the Ferran Garcia Sevilla exhibition. Cosmos-Chaos, which will cover the artist's entire career, especially painting, up to his most recent production. This is not a conventional retrospective. The works from different periods and languages are combined with a contrasting sequence that allows you to grasp or sense existential and moral problems that are very current. Garcia Sevilla's interests in philosophy, religion and science do not make him a merely speculative artist. On the contrary, it shows a constant and vehement concern for the political present and its conflicts.

The central themes of his work are the reflection on art and creation, on the universe (an aspect that will become recurrent throughout his career, with a particular connection and combination of philosophy and physics) and natural laws and, finally, a vehement denunciation of abuses of power and reactionary forces.

The collaboration between the Museu Nacional and the Centre d'Art Tecla Sala, one of the main promoters and disseminators of contemporary creation in our country, has made this joint project possible.

With this project the National Museum and the Centre d'Art Tecla Sala continue to strengthen the network of collaborations with artists and the main agents and centers of reference for the production, study and dissemination of post-war art and second vanguard in our country.

This task has already allowed the Museu Nacional d'Art de catalunya to incorporate works by artists such as Benet Rossell, Aurèlia Muñoz, Mari Chordà, Guinovart, Josep Maria Subirachs, Parvine Curie, Joan Rabascall, Edwin Bechtold or Nazario , among many others.

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