European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aggressive Art and the automobile by Randy Barnett s4s Mot reports editor Hen describing a painting the word aggressive rarely comes to mind. Ysl Argentine artist Jorge l. Ferreyra Basso terms his paintings just thai aggressive in  and a wants in thai Way because he paints cars All types of cars from the racing variety to  when he depicts cars speeding on a Racetrack or along a Highway the cars truly Are aggressive even when boxed in by a Frame. And when his cars Are sitting still or  they still appear at the Leash so to speak ready to dash away. Ferreyra who is he chief designer or color and trim at the opel design department in Brussels Helm Germany Calls his painting fun strictly a Hobby but it is a Hobby involving an extremely High degree of professionalism end one Trtat Offe a him a second career. Many of his paintings hang in the new racing sport museum Al the Najr Burgering and in the Raule museum in Eppstein Germany and he has a. Waiting list of people who want portraits of their cars. My goal is to have at least one of my paintings hanging in every automobile museum in Germany the amiable Argentine artist Saya and once i attain that Goat Hen i la aim Tor at least one painting in every automobile museum in  Ferreyra will achieve a special Honor late his fall when his automotive Art will be displayed at the opening of the Fango museum in Baj Carco he Home town of me legendary Argentine Driver Juan manual Fanf to the Only Man to win the world driving championship five times. In his automotive creations. Ferreyra uses coloured chalks and with he chalks he obtains immediacy and spontaneity the action seeming to explode from the coloured paper. I use my fingers along with the Chalk when i m painting Ferreyra says because that Way i keep in touch with the Chalk the material and the picture. I put a lot of the color Down directly with my fingers my car paintings have always been somewhat impressionistic in slate he says but they be become a bit mom detailed now that i m Dang so much customer  but my style is my own and even if a painting of mme the unsigned it is easily recognized As my to. That s the Way it should be. It s the Way i want  now 43, Ferreyra has been drawing cars since the age of 5 and he s been involved with cars his entire life a Duding four years of designing sports prototype racing cars in Argentina. He never attended Art school but did graduate from the engineering school at Buenos Aires University joining general motors of Argentina after doing additional study at the pm school in the United states. At the age of 24, Ferreyra became manager of the design department for pm of Argentina and with this position he had Lille time for his Hobby of drawing and painting automobiles. From 1968 to 1973. He was directly responsible or the successful Argentine versions of the Chevrolet and the design of he Wadett c car. In 1975, with eight years into his Job at got Argentina he again found Lime Lor his Hobby of painting cars feeling thai it would provide a balance Between professional necessity and his own creativity As he put it. He began with sketches from racing scenes and within a few months was experimenting with impressionism and developing his own style. Ferreyra moved to Germany with his wife and three children in 1978 to join opel a subsidiary of general motors. Here came a pause of four years from painting write he established himself in his work at the Opet design studio settled into a new environment and teamed Iho German language Ferreyra Speaks five languages. As chief designer of color and trim at opel he is responsible for creation of both exterior and Interior car colors plus All materials inside the cars fabrics carpets headliners and Vinyl. He is also responsible for seat design end says the main aim Lor a seat is Comfort a Irving room a Fleck in a  i work top a also includes car safety As far As color goes with instrument panel colors and even special colors on switches considered safety factors in today s car world. By 1982, the creative Art Bug by again and Ferreyra returned to his Hobby of painting cars and racing car scenes with a new intensity. Ferreyra first lakes his own photographs shooting the cars irom All possible angles. He Hen paints from the photographs. Before taking the pictures i walk around the cars and study them just As if i were doing a portrait of a person he says. He also does portraits of people from the racing world one of his most successful a painting of Enzo Ferrari and the 250 to Ferrari car from 1962. He sent Ferrari a lithograph one of 450 numbered and signed and the great Man responded with a note of Praise for the work. Ferreyra s paintings will be exhibited along with those of Olthof automotive artists Al Trie alsatian Buga Fli enthusiast exhibition which opens on sell. 6 and runs or five weeks Al Trie Mosheim City  City of Mosheim where the Bugatti cars were once manufactured is located just a Lew Miles West of Strasbourg. Any club or organization interested in presenting an exhibition of Ferreyra s automotive paintings May write him at in altion 29,6094 Bischofsheim Wesl Germany or Call 06144-41874. Artist Jorge l Zemyra Banaio a Wartt includes toe  i us Ferrari and the 1962ft ittri250 to and 1913/1914 opel 12-Ltternctr. Monday july 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13