Sumoy Ferran, self-taught artist

Sumoy Ferran is one of those artists who after many years of silence, has revived thanks to retirement, so it is necessary to congratulate him. It has not been in vain for a carpenter, has benefited as artistically enriching their conceptual work. Shape pieces of wood that complement its creative capital. Are of great educational value because only he understands art as a cross-culture.

- There are certainly parallels with the toys he designed the artist Torres-Garcia, "Aladdin Toys", in an attempt to present the art in everyday life. You felt the same desire training in the "Chess Painting Competition" when presented a mobile board, where in the back of each ring of the game events are captured, some unhappy other philanthropic various historical figures into the reach of the viewer and his final verdict. "The pedagogy is its ideology in the world of art?

- After having spent over thirty years behind a desk know if you can not say I have a vocation of teacher. Now that I think perhaps there is something in this sense in me, because when I did my military service taught to read and write illiterate soldiers, and if I like to convey my deep to find some who do not know.

- His art is eclectic, it can not be pigeonholed into a single trend. Portrait of Pablo Neruda is exceptional. It measures remarkable, is composed of a puzzle of 136 pieces of wood taken from recycled mattresses. On one side is being drawn into pieces the image of Chilean poet, by other poems are read "The Conquerors" and "liberators." It also has portraits of Picasso, Einstein, etc. In striking chiaroscuro-lacerating bicolor black and red reminiscent of Warhol Pop-Art, so bold.

- It is obvious that there may be reminiscent of Pop Art, Warhol environmental influence in the fifties when his work was rampant, that Marilyn Monroe for example, or those familiar advertising images. The colors I like dark colors, dark, ocher and brown., The employing Torres-Garcia and that led me to make these portraits where the aesthetic is based on the pigment.

(Original version of the article by Joan Quintana Surinyach i)

Exhibitions:

Participated in 1958 in the poster competition of the Festival of Manresa, and since 2001 has participated in numerous exhibitions, most recently explained in Casinet d'Hostafranchs, Room Conex, D'Chess Open Int Sants, Espai Cultural Pere Pruna, Cotxeres Sants: Gaudi-Jujol Camprodón City Council, Library Martí i Pol, Bonan Galleria Venezia (Italy) and Esart Gallery.

3 rd prize for painting Painting III Concurs La Caixa 2001.

Honor Award - Gallery Esart - VIII Int Saló D'Hivern 2007

Honor Award - Gallery Esart - IX Int Saló D'Hivern 2008

Honor Award - Gallery Esart - X Salo Int Hivern D' 2009