Joaquim Ferrer

Joaquin Ferrer, born July 4, 1929 in Manzanillo, is a Cuban painter and designer linked to the lyrical abstraction movement. Entered the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana in 1948, he abandoned his studies two years later to work freely, and exhibited his works for the first time in 1954 at the National Painting Salon at the Museum of Art. Modern Havana. After the Castro revolution, in 1960, he obtained a scholarship from the Cuban government to come to Paris where he settled permanently. In 1979, he acquired French citizenship. In 1968, Galerie Le Point Cardinal held its first personal exhibition. Max Ernst prefaces the catalog: ... as for young people, I pity them. How can they not feel that everything has been done before them? It is a great mistake to make them gods even before they have had time to express themselves. One of them, Ferrer, is kind of my discovery. Far from Pop Art, Mec Art and their substitutes, it seems to me deeply authentic ... Max Emst (extract).