Ferran García Sevilla (Palma de Mallorca, 1949) has donated to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya an important set of 54 works made between 1966 and 1977, a period in which the artist combined his denunciation of Francoism with his interest in landscape Mallorcan or his concern for the contemplation of nature and the questioning of the physical laws of the cosmos. To this incorporation we must also add a deposit of 45 photographs intervened in 1974 from images cut from the press and associated with violence, death, torture and war.
This donation, which according to those responsible for the museum "is essential for the constitution of the national collection of post-war and second avant-garde art", coincides with a major retrospective that, under the title Cosmos-Caos, will be dedicated to him by the Center d'Art Tecla Room from December. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the MNAC, in whose rooms a selection of the donation will be exhibited in parallel.
Garcia Sevilla, a central figure in the conceptual art of the sixties and seventies and the boom in painting in the eighties, is the last of a long list of artists who in recent years have entrusted their work to the MNAC. This is the case of Benet Rossell, Aurèlia Muñoz, Mari Chordà, Guinovart, Josep Maria Subirachs, Parvine Curie, Joan Rabascall, Edwin Bechtold or Nazario, among others.
