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The gallery dedicates for the first time a monographic exhibition and a catalog to the contemporary brut artist Sebastián Ferreira.
Discovered by the gallery, this young paraguayan artist draws imaginary cities with graphite on paper. The exhibition megalopolis translates the urban concentration of the cities from which Sebastián Ferreira draws his inspiration. His cities are not linked to each other, but intertwined to form one, extended to infinity.

Ramiro Sebastián Ferreira Martinez de la Pera, known as “Seba,” born in Asunción (Paraguay) in 1981, is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 15. His early dream of a career as an architect becomes unattainable. Graphic production, which already occupied him as a child, then turns into one of the only bridges between his fertile imagination and a world he mainly experiences from the inside of his room, isolated. More than 400 artworks are thus born, carefully ordered, invisible to others until they are finished. The gallery shows his work in a solo show for the first time.
Following his diagnosis, Sebastián Ferreira’s taste for urban structures takes the sole direction of white paper, which he covers with a synthesis of cities–Buenos Aires, Granada and Cordoba among others, cities he has never visited. Indeed, the Internet is his other privileged bridge with the outside world: he finds there the numerous photographs that feed his creation, as well as magazine pages and postcard images. From this digital collection are drawn the real buildings that Ferreira sometimes includes in his imagined cities, mixing them with numerous urban elements such as roads, traffic lights and buses. These forms polarize a dense, insatiable and generous fascination for urban space

sebastián ferreira : - © christian berst — art brut
sebastián ferreira : - © christian berst — art brut
sebastián ferreira : - © christian berst — art brut
sebastián ferreira : - © christian berst — art brut
Artworks
Please contact us to inquire about the available works.
Sebastián Ferreira untitled, 2009
12.6 x 8.27 in
Sebastián Ferreira untitled, 2011
11.81 x 8.27 in
untitled - © christian berst — art brut
Sebastián Ferreira untitled, 2012
11.42 x 8.27 in
Sebastián Ferreira untitled, 2008
12.6 x 8.27 in
Sebastián Ferreira untitled, 2004
12.6 x 8.27 in
Artist
Sebastián Ferreira
Sebastián Ferreira - © christian berst — art brut

Ramiro Sebastián Ferreira Martinez de la Pera, known as “Seba,” born in Asunción (Paraguay) in 1981, is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 15. His early dream of a career as an architect becomes unattainable. Graphic production, which already occupied him as a child, then turns into one of the only bridges between his fertile imagination and a world he mainly experiences from the inside of his room, isolated. More than 400 artworks are thus born, carefully ordered, invisible to others until they are finished. The gallery shows his work in a solo show for the first time.

Catalog
sebastián ferreira megalopolis
sebastián ferreira : megalopolis - © christian berst — art brut

Text: Christophe Le Gac
Foreword: Christian Berst
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sebastián Ferreira: Megalopolis, from June 15th to July 16th, 2023.

Press review
Megalopolis, visions brutes et sophistiquées de Sebastián Ferreira
Christophe Le Gac, Chroniques D’architecture. June 27, 2023.
Sebastián Ferreira : megalopolis
Maison De L’Amérique Latine. June 12, 2023.
Sebastián Ferreira : megalopolis
Semaine De L’Amérique Latine Et Des Caraïbes. June 7, 2023.
Video
sebastián ferreira : megalopolis
Exposition monographique du 15 juin au 16 juillet 2023 (galerie principale) La galerie consacre[…]
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