Since that first exhibition by Naxo Farreras (Barcelona, 1951) at the Galeria Cadaqués by Lanfranco Bombelli (1976) up until the anthology at Can Mario Museum in Palafrugell (2021) one of the most interesting and little-known Catalan sculptural careers in this recent half century has endured: it is a work that discarded the norms of classical rhetoric in order to reconquer a “vitality of its own” and extract the soul from the matter he works with. That is how he restores the expressive force of the form by itself and each of his works of art is delivered to us endowed with a combination of formal tensions through the compositional rhythms, density of the masses,...
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