Maties Palau Ferré

Palau Ferré was known for his sudden swings of humor and became notorious in 1974 for burning his oil paintings as a protest against the unfavorable resolution of a legal conflict he had with an art dealer.

[3] In 2011, coinciding with the northern anniversary of his birth, the Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona (MAMT) organizes a retrospective exhibition and the art critic Antonio Salcedo publishes Palau Ferré i el su paradís.

In 2019, the historian Francesc Marco-Palau, one of the artists, will publish the biography The painter who cremated his paintings, republished by Editorial Base in 2020, which will mark the beginning of the preparations for the commemoration of the centenary of Palau Ferré.

After an intense effort to recover his figure carried out in 2019 and 2020, the Catalan government declared 2021 the Palau Ferré Year, an official commemoration curated by the historian Francesc Marco-Palau, the painter's great-nephew, to honor the centenary of the artist's birth.

Within the framework of the Palau Ferré Year, 20 different thematic exhibitions were organized and 100 territorial actions took place throughout Catalonia, with the support of town halls, museums, libraries, entities and NGOs.