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The painter and artist
PETR FEREBAUER, born 1959 in Brno, Czech Republic... also an musician and writer, a slightly controversial person, a distinstive personalita in the fine arts here and now. Loved as well as damned, happy as well as sad, a true individual. Ferebauer, who signs his paintings Ferino, could hardly anticipate as a fifteen-year-old what is goals in life were. True, he liked to draw, he was sensitive, a clear talent.He applied to a school for window dressers, vhich he later successfully finished. At that time he also created his first solo works of art.This was at a contest for the best shop-window, which was announced each year by the city hall on the occasion of the Brno music festival Podzim.He was succesful. He finished school and still didn´t know which way to go.He was enthusiastic about freejazz improvisations, he learned to play the piano and went on tour.At the same time, howewer,he worked with shapes and colours.At the timehe was also inspired by the pen and Indian ink techniques - drawings with an idea.In 1990 he had a one man show of his works of art at the Harlem Club, later at the THC Club in Brno.He intrigued his public with his assemblies of object, which he searched for and discovered by himself in abandoned houses,and he collected where he could artifacts from our grandmothers´ times.He also acquired his first commisions: firm logos, business cards, record sleeves for alternative bands, for instance Ser un Peyalero, Dunaj and Helmutova stříkačka. Time went by and Ferebauer (Ferda, as friends call him) made a living as a freelance in the advertising bussines - work of all types. He designed uniforms for sports teams and sales stands, painted sets and curtains for theatres, workwd as a stage designer, painted and esigned notice boards for shops, created installations for foreign companies at the Brno fair grounds-he mada all kinds of possible and impossible commercial objects and at the same time he carried on withv his own personal work. From assemblies and original handpainted T-shirts he quite naturally changed over to paintings - canvas and oil. Ferebauer says: “...it´s a kind of a regular discipline, only here can you find out how good a painter you are.“ |
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| Since then he has been exhibiting up tofour times a year and he still creates. Many of his works found their place with renowned collectors, in private collections, with famous people on today´s cultural scene and in many other homes. Petr Ferebauer doesn´t simply paint with oil on canvas he searches boldly for new painting techniques and new means of expresion. He is a self-taught person who is fully aware of his own freedom and the advantages as wel as disadvantages resulting from this. He has very little discipline; maybe this is also why he manages to progress in a innovative and distinctive way and work out his new rules. He folowshis intuition,but at the same time he makes pragmatic use of the rule of the first idea; he improvises - white latex, yelow alcohol -based stain and a plastic „undercoat“ have long been fundamental elements of all his pieces. He is very industrious and productive: he always carries with him an A4 format hardcover notebook in which hedraws using a technique based on the dispersion of alcohol-based markerink, which he invented for himself - see Abeceda and Tarot. He prefers figural motifs and says: „What interests people the most are stories from the human world“ and „These pictures are nothing more than traces of my life, those who know me don´t need an explanation for my pictures. I do it for people, for all kinds of people, for their homes, so that their childern can grow up under them.“ His painting are elaborate and colorful. He utilizes their surface to their maximum, utilizing the golden ratio and a fine balance of colors and shapes. And he adds: “A theme, and motif that can be developed easily is a rare and festive quest.“ It is said of him that he is a painter of intuition, a medium. I paint the same way i talk. I don´t know what I´am saying and therefore at least I don´t lie to you. I simply like when paintings are elaborate and it´s necessary to give them your time. So many times I´ve experienced the same situation: me painting the whole night long in the company of a talkative person telling stories from his life–one after another, often intimate, even unpublishable... and scenes from these stories later appear on these canvases. He says: „Talk, I´m listening, but don´t show me anything, I won´t be watching, because I´m painting.“ I strive for my paintings to be actively interesing, so that they last a long as possible - so that even years later one looks at them and becomes astonished that what he sees in themhe never saw there before. I want my paintings to have the quality of identifying themselves with human dreams, with our reality, with the human soul. |
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