It is the last exhibition at gallery Ferran Cano, which closes its doors after four decades of activity. Ferran Cano retires and thereby closes an essential chapter in the history of contemporary art in Mallorca.
His first gallery, 4 Gats, was blessed by Joan Miro and Robert Graves and through it passed the still unknown Miquel Barceló, Broto or Ferran Garcia Sevilla. All of them held their first exhibition in 4 Gats. Among them sculptor Pep Canyelles, who remembers in an emotional letter what it meant to the then young artists to have the support of Ferran Cano (you can read it in the attached document).
The finishing touch to this labor will be put by the exhibition of Mallorcan Amparo Sard (1973) a multidisciplinary artist whose work is part of some of the most important collections of contemporary art: the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Deutsche Bank of Berlin the Teylers Museum and the CODA Museum, both in the Netherlands.
In Paisaje interactivo (Interactive landscape) Amparo Sard invites us to a contemplative experience where the protagonist is the landscape, like it used to be for the Romantics. The landscape as subject of the work of art, without being used as backdrop, frame or other accompanying narrative matters, the contemplation and enjoyment of nature as a source of pleasure, a pleasure that is produced by the 'perfect' balance between the ideal and reality.
