The mayor of Lalín, José Crespo, has just announced that the painter Fernando Pereira, from A Coruña, will be the poster designer for the LVI Feria del Cocido de Lalín to be held on 4 February 2024. He will succeed Diego de Giráldez and Manolo Paz, who were the last two artists who were responsible for the artistic promotion of the Cocido. Pereira stands out for the colourfulness of his avant-garde work and for having exhibited nationally and internationally.
The painter from A Coruña will succeed Giráldez and Manolo Paz. The mayor of Lalín, José Crespo, has just announced that the painter Fernando Pereira, from A Coruña, will be the poster designer for the LVI Feria del Cocido de Lalín to be held on 4 February 2024. He will succeed Diego Giráldez and Manolo Paz, who were the last two artists who were responsible for giving the Cocido a special artistic touch. Pereira stands out for the colourfulness of his avant-garde work and for his national and international exhibitions. BIOGRAPHY Fernando Pereira (5 July 1959) is a Spanish painter, born in A Coruña, he lived the artistic environment at home since he was very young. Son of the painter Tomás Pereira, he grew up among brushes and oils. The tutoring of Ramón Núñez during his early studies marked his humanistic education, completed by the unique library of his mother Enriqueta Pena. At the beginning of the 80s, he moved to London where he complemented his artistic training at the Barnet Art Center, although his true artistic training was acquired during the years he worked in his father's studio, experimenting with all kinds of materials and styles. "Fernando Pereira declares himself to be a passionate follower of the painting and plastic experimentations of his father Tomás Pereira, whom he considers to be the creator of the Galician plastic news of the 21st century. It is a new painting characterised above all by the artist's freedom #in the face of trends, by the absence of the model or pattern, by the transgression of the laws of the canon, giving all the protagonism to the blank canvas. All of this filtered through a marked Galician profile. Fernando Pereira combined his plastic education at his father's side, a great admirer of the avant-garde, with which he later came into contact through his travels abroad, with a partly self-taught education. His knowledge of the European and North American artistic environment, especially that of England and the United States, did not prevent him from forgetting his roots and opting for an expressive authenticity in which the influences of contemporary painters did not drown out his experiences".
