Francisco Farreras (Barcelona, ​​1927 Madrid, 2021) He was a Spanish abstract artist. Difficult to catalog his work in artistic movements of his time, he can be included within geometric abstraction, abstract expressionism and informalism. Some see in his work “self-absorption, sensitivity and discretion”; 1 he he only sees a lot of work.

He began his artistic activity early under the direction of the painter Antonio Gómez Cano de Murcia (1940) and Mariano de Cossío at the School of Arts and Crafts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1941). He is studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando School in Madrid, where in 1949 he obtained the title of Professor of Drawing. During 1952 and 1954 he made study trips to Paris, Belgium and Holland. It is from the year 1954 when he begins his artistic career professionally, participating in multiple group exhibitions and beginning to carry out other personal ones in Spain and abroad.

In 1956 he won by competition the project and execution of thirteen fresco wall paintings for the chapel of Castillo de las Navas del Marqués in Ávila, and made stained glass windows in the Dominicans of Alcobendas and in Tangier, the Coronation Church of Vitoria and the Spanish Chapel of the Manila Cathedral.

Between 1958 and 1959, his painting is basically geometric and made of thick materials.

It will be at the end of the fifties when he begins to use tissue paper and the possibilities that it offers him. The ductility of tissue paper, the transparencies and a small color gamut, but very rich in nuances, are mixed with the oxidations of the paper or the effects of the fresh glue. He exhibited in different places in Spain, at the Venice Biennale in 1958 and 1960 and at the MOMA, also that same year. In 1962, he did it at the Tate Gallery. In 1963 he travels through Scandinavia and Mexico to finally move to New York, there he will establish his residence for two years. He commissioned a large mural-collage for the Spanish Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. During those years he made contact with the Bertha Schaefer gallery with whom he will exhibit his work repeatedly. During those years he worked in Spain with the Juana Mordó gallery, signing an exclusive contract with her for her work. In 1966 he returned to Spain and settled on the outskirts of Madrid, where he fixed his permanent residence in 1971 and where he currently resides.