Painter, sculptor and illustrator. He spent most of his career in Madrid, though he always kept in touch with Catalonia and his home city, where installed on his most important works, Pasifae, in 1991. He usually focussed his iconography on events and characters in Greek mythology and Cycladic culture, and endows them with a playful, burlesque and dreamlike vision. He has held exhibitions throughout Spain and several countries in Europe, and twice taking part in the São Paulo biennial, in 1969 and 1974.
A modeller and sculptor trained in Paris, Milan and Barcelona; he has created one of the most suggestive yet least known sculptural careers in the last half century. He mainly works with minerals such as marble and alabaster, though he has also worked with wood. His first exhibition was in 1976 at the Galeria Cadaqués, but he did not begin signing his work in the name he currently uses until 1991. In his most recent production, Farreras empties out the inner spaces of the pieces he works on, allowing light to pass through; hence referring to them ‘cathedrals’.
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