JOSÉ FERREIRA'S OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY

Paris 1964       • Sees his mom for the first time from the outside • Breaks first objects • First trip in airplane •

1965    • Special interest in breaking ceramics & glass • Makes pals with snake : mother panics •

Provence 1966 • Definitely breaks everything he touches • Almost drowns self, sister & parents' car in the harbor by letting off car's hand brake : mother eats her hat •

1967    • Gets first nickname from his mom : Attila • Systematically steals from his elder sister the ripe cherries she saves for last •

1968    • Shows early symptoms of being a rebel during the may 68 Paris revolution : throws content of chamber pot through his fifth floor window onto a policeman's head • His first paintings immediately associate him with the Tachist, Action Painting & Body-Art movements •

1969    • Admires Zorro for his elegance, skills & way of breaking things with his sword • Gets a Zorro costume for Christmas • Almost intercepts Santa Claus on Christmas Eve but falls asleep at the last minute • Watches the first step on the Moon • Decides to become an astronaut •

Peru 1970  • Finds a genuine Inca wooden spoon in archeological digging • Mother unwillingly breaks it • He understands genetics • Learns how to read & write • Female people start to notice his attractive & mysterious green eyes • He doesn't like it • Has tonsils operated against his will • Gets a lot of ice-cream in compensation • Swims in the Amazon river • First drawings (landscapes, farm animals, Peru's armory, moon rockets) known as the Peruvian period •

Paris 1971  • Compiles his discoveries & refuses to go to school elsewhere than in Victor Hugo's house • Understands his uncles & aunts are his mother's brothers & sisters • First New Year card drawings • Specializes in refilling with air the Nestlé concentrated milk tube he'd just eaten from so that no one would notice • First girlfriend • Intense drawing activity (war planes & ships, submarine world, scenes from the middle ages, clowns, farm animals, the stork, pseudo advertising compositions with lettering & first humor drawings) known as the Paris period •

1972    • Writes & illustrates his first tales for children • Campaigns against mushroom soup • Goes to dentist school (as patient): is rewarded an image if he didn't cry (never got one) •

Venezuela 1973  • Unlike most Parisians, moves to South America • Brings parents & sister along with him • Successfully finishes up in 6 months his full-year mail-school program • Has plenty of time to visit daily the local zoo and make pals with rain-forest monkey • Experiments in breaking new things such as own neck, leg & arm by trying Tarzan's tree jump from one rope to another • Discovers making popcorn, coconuts from the tree & hummock napping •

1974    • Gets a classical guitar for his birthday • Never went beyond first guitar lesson: too painful (for fingers & pride) • Felt like breaking it • Eats mom's garden vegetables • Discovers giant red ants' community center in front garden and is fascinated by the incredibly heavy load they can carry • First race with an iguana (iguana wins) • Specializes in Angel diving at the military club's swimming pool diving board •

1975    • Moves to the Caribbean coast near the airport • Learns how to recognize all kinds of planes only by their noise • Spectacular sea view from the balcony • Paints first oil on canvas : a seascape • Breaks  plate-glass windows & street lights using self-made catapult in mango wood • Makes friends with neighbor Simon Bolivar & the street ice-cream vendor • Likes playing spin-the-bottle • First Latin girlfriend • Starts to learn English • Loves grammar exercises unlike other fellow school partners •

1976    • Discovers rock music & soccer • Gets a chemistry set & makes most experiments without reading the booklet • First home riots with his sister • Somebody breaks in during the night & steals a very heavy TV set that was out of order • First tries to sell his own original humorist drawings in the street •

1977    • Unlike other people, enjoys school • Discovers rugby, the Tropiburger & teenage parties • Is not sure yet whether he should involve the tongue while kissing • Paints a Van Gogh look-alike (crows) without yet knowing Van Gogh • Discovers the Rolling Stones •

1978    • Still hesitates between soccer & girlfriend when both call at the same time • Makes first caricature: the school headmaster • Finds a cause to his rebellion: arbitrariness • Girls notice his attractive & mysterious green eyes • He now likes it Hates disco • Discovers Rubén Blades •

1979    • Creates & directs a satirical school paper along with outstanding writer friend, supplies own texts & caricatures • Certain issues reach the highlights of popularity after being censored by the school's grown-up authorities • Secretly decides to become a writer • Initiatory trip to Mexico • Is fascinated by Maya graphics •

1980    • Plays rugby, soccer, basket ball, volley ball, skate board & beach tennis • Makes caricatures of all the school's bearded teachers • Nothing escapes his accurate & satiric observer's eyes • First rhyme poems • Father dies in airplane crash • Watercolors, oils on canvas, still lifes and drawings, known as the Caracas period •

Antibes 1981  • Moves to the South of France via Miami & New York • Unlike other people, dislikes smoking • Starts his sexual revolution • Discovers philosophy • Decides to be a philosopher • Creates art group "Les Picasses" that exclusively paints in situ on females' bathroom mirrors with cosmetic products of all kinds & colors (whatever is there) • Dates Russian exile daughter •

1982    • Creates & directs a parody detective-like school paper where he supplies own texts & caricatures again • Makes another literary & financial success • Offers a big banquet with the paper's benefits • Writes poems & songs he sings with local rock band • Sees young guitar genius Bireli Lagrene, the Stray Cats, & the Stones, in concert for the first time • Easily graduates from high school in scientific section • Now belongs to the 10% of French population graduate elite • Dates English cutie & French teen • Only the latter shows a twisted mind • Gathers first elements for a FFTMS (French-female-twisted-mind syndrome) theory • Intense drawing activity (landscapes, street sketching, portraits, caricatures, female nudes, animals, dead trees, creation of a cartoon working-class character) known as the Antibes period •

Paris 1983 • Dull boring rainy year fighting with intensive mathematics & physics • Nonetheless learns guitar, writes poems & first novel “Sophia Blues” • Breaks news things such as brother-in-law's car & weak arguments • Dates Philippine beauty •

1984    • Starts writing second novel “The garbage men strike” • Tries to paint a Jacques Brel song • Learns break-dance • Discovers Salvador Dalí's writings • Starts local anti-smoking campaign • Dates English-Chinese-Trinitarian beauty •

1985    • Writes a successful & outstanding article on Water Closets for the Design school paper • Paints a Jagger portrait on canvas • Caricatures anything on legs from girlfriend to fellow students & teachers • Sees Rubén Blades in concert •

1986    • Decides to make models sign their caricatures • Meets his soul sister : a Venezuelan beauty •

1987    • Writes a strongly satirical article on industrial designers published in French design magazine Création • First electric guitar • First neighbor's complaints for noise • Sees Prince & Santana in concert • Dates English-Chinese-Trinitarian beauty's sister •

1988    • His first vote in a Presidential Election permits president Mitterrand to get reelected • Puts out a well warned yet reluctant smoker's cigarette using a fire extinguisher (technique seemingly overrated appears very efficient) • Sees Frank Zappa & Stevie Ray Vaughan in concert • Continues his sexual revolution • Dates Lebanese, Danish, Latin & some French beauties (guess which had FFTMS) •

1989    • Becomes an uncle • Designs a 3D fold-up birth card for his newborn niece • Graduates with distinction from industrial design •

1990    • Starts investigation with Copy Art (a.k.a. Xerography) • Sees the Stones in concert for second time • Sees Tina Turner in a Versailles garden • Works in packaging design • Dates English beauty •

1991    • Makes delightful caricature of ex-boss & sends it to him for the New Year • Ex-boss still wonders who did it • Invents the concept of Morphocopy, a new artistic motion capture technique • Works in graphic design •

1992    • Signs up for the best & for the worst • The best : Venezuelan soul-sister • The worst : her 11 year old son •

1993    • First solo exhibition (Paris) • A flop • Logically decides to be a professional artist • Works in ecological Design •

1994    • Second and third Copy Art solo exhibition (Paris) • First collective exhibition (Bora Bora) • Second collective exhibition (Caracas) • Decides not to eat meat anymore • Caricatures new fellow colleagues & boss • Caricatures writer-filmmaker-therapist Alejandro Jodorowsky & guitarist Alirio Díaz live & makes them sign • Starts teaching Industrial Design •

1995    • Fourth Copy Art solo exhibition, a major event that explodes the Canon show room in Champs Elysées (Paris) • Third and fourth collective exhibition (Paris) • Belongs to the privileged few who saw the Stones' small gig at the Paris Olympia • Writes essay : “Metro, the struggle for space” • Works in automotive Design & Continues teaching Industrial Design •

1996    • “Metro, The Struggle for Space”, is published and gets instant success & seduces all Paris media & metro users • Book promotion TV commercial • Creates the Rolling Clones band in which he sings, plays guitar & harmonica • Fifth Copy Art collective exhibition (Austria) • Intense writing activity • Fifth solo exhibition (Miami) • Trips to Las Vegas and wins before even gambling • Keeps teaching Industrial Design •

1997    • Copy Art micro-book edition (Portugal) • Creates own imaginary bank notes • Sixth and Seventh collective exhibition (Paris) • The Paris Metro hires him as a consultant after reading “Metro, the struggle for space” • Intense caricaturing activity (especially artists & musicians) • Carries on teaching Industrial Design • Dates Chinese beauty •

1998    • Signs off for the best • Caricatures salsa king Oscar d' León & painter & friend Oswaldo Vigas & makes them sign • Sixth solo exhibition (only caricatures) • Eighth and ninth collective exhibition (Paris) • Tenth collective exhibition (Japan) • Eleventh collective exhibition (Ft Lauderdale Museum of Art) : awarded honorable mention & art piece remains in the Museum's permanent collection • Stops teaching Industrial Design • Dates Vietnamese cutie & average French girl that shows no symptom of FFTMS whatsoever : theory confirmed by this one exception to the rule •

1999    • Solo exhibition & lecture about representation of movement in visual arts (Coral Gables, Fl.) • Is introduced to beautiful French contemporary dancer • Is reluctant for some reason but very attracted • Writes her a 34 poem collection (“Praise of slowness”) • Caricatures salsa star Willie Colón & all his musicians & makes them sign • Trips to Normandy to witness total eclipse of the century • Well inspired Christmas trip to Florida as two surprise winter hurricanes in a row blow down most of French forests • Belongs to the privileged few who saw Prince's after-show gig at the Paris Bataclan • Predicts year 2000 gigantic paranoiac computer bug (y2k) will not happen •

2000    • Succeeds in dating beautiful French contemporary dancer after 6 long twisted months working on it • Gets back to school at the Paris Sorbonne • Starts to become more familiar with contemporary dance but still has a hard time telling whether the show is over & when to applaud • First gig singing Venezuelan folklore & playing the cuatro starring along with outstanding maracas player & kinetic artist friend Cesar Andrade •

2001    • Gets his master in Arts with distinction at the Paris Sorbonne • Writes historical essay “The Dalí-Lacan encounter” where he states Dalí's influence over Lacan • Writes the “Erotic haiku” poem collection • Large solo exhibition (Paris) of copy-art & pastel works with a contemporary dance & music improvisation opening • Back to teaching design •

2002    • Starts working on his Ph.D. thesis in Arts • Writes essay “Liberty the Dalí way” • Discovers a perceptive technique to animate Rodin's sculpture “The Walking man” • Sees the Stones in concert for the tenth time (Paris Olympia again) • Political dilemma during the French presidential runoff when morally forced to vote against right wing extremist candidate however irrelevant the other guy may be • Other guy got reelected with a banana republic 82%, keeping presidential immunity that preserved him from embarrassing trial • Date with dancer goes flickering as he suspected : dancer shows typical FFTMS features • Writes theater play “Conversations on infidelity, after the Chatterley case” • Keeps teaching design •

2003    • “The Dalí-Lacan encounter” gets published & generates a storm in a wine cup : France's pride hermetic psychoanalyst Lacan proved ousted by Spanish protean genius Dalí, oddly unpopular in France, was a bitter pill to swallow for French intellectuals • Date with dancer ends in dirty dancing but provides most perfect FFTMS archetype to the theory • Keeps teaching Design • Trips to Switzerland & discovers Bern motion-illusion artist Del Prete • Starts redesigning & remodeling new apartment •

2004    • Solo exhibition & lecture on “Fluid representation of movement” at Paris' prestigious College de France scientific institution • Creates the Design Brothers band in which he sings, plays guitar & harmonica • Plays harmonica onstage with multi-instrumentalist, singer & songwriter friend Josh Karson • Writes essay “Capturing Motion” where he explores nature of perception & artists' ability to extend it • Keeps teaching Design • Dates Portuguese cutie • Trips to Catalonia for Dalí's centenary birthday • Trips to Venice & falls in love (with Venice) • New apartment remodeling deadlines constantly postponed •

2005    • College de France's lecture gets published • “Erotic haiku” is translated into English by versatile francophile Ron Hudson & published online at www.othervoicespoetry.org • Writes short story “Equality of sexes” • Translates into French St. Petersburg Dalí Museum curator Jeffett's text on French artist DI Rosa • Initiatory trip to Peru • Finishes up remodeling new apartment & moves in •

2006    • Logically bound to getting his Ph.D. with highest honors • New apartment, considered an art-piece by magazine reports, sets up new trends in interior Design • Desperately looking for inexpensive copy of Dalí's Mae West lips sofa •

2007    • Charisma, talent & gray hair helping, people start to pay him attention •

2008    • Gets famous •

2009    • Gets rich •

2010 – 2020  • Never been so prolific •

2025    • inauguration of J.F. Foundation •

2025 onwards  • World progressively ruled by multitalented people •

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