Benet Ferrer was born in Sabadell in 1945 and died in this same town in 2024. He studied at the Industrial School of Arts and Crafts of Sabadell, and at the Escola Massana, Barcelona. A leading exponent of a generation of Catalan avant-garde artists during the sixties and seventies, he was a member of the Grup Gallot in Sabadell, an artist group that organised collective demonstrations of Action Painting in public spaces, and took part in the creation of Sala Tres, a gallery that promoted artists from Sabadell such as Fina Miralles and Pep Domènec. With a body of work that includes paintings, furniture and marquetry, he is best known for his production of ceramics. Following in the footsteps of traditional ceramicists from Sabadell, such as Marian Brugués and Josep Maria Brull, his experimental nature and subtle irony led him to take a more cutting-edge direction with the medium in which he explored the formal and poetic dimension of objects and their uses. His hyperrealist pieces are a reflection on everyday objects and the language of ceramics, questioning the notions of the raw and the cooked, the hard and the soft. Without ever ceasing to be a ceramicist, he pushed the limits of the medium toward a conceptual dimension.

In the 1970s, his work was exhibited in alternative spaces such as Sala Vinçon and Galeria G, Barcelona, and Sala Tres, Sabadell. He took part in the first survey of Catalan objectual art at the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1976), and an exhibition of Catalan Conceptual art at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (1992), as well as exhibitions at the Espai 10 of the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1980), and Cornerhouse, Manchester (1994). In the 2000s, he exhibited in the Fundació Vallpalou, Lleida (2021), and the Acadèmia de Belles Arts, Sabadell (2023). His public sculptures and murals can be seen in Barcelona, Sabadell and Fraga, and his work is included in collections such as the Rafael Tous Contemporary Art Collection, Museu d’Art de Sabadell and MACBA, Barcelona. Some of his works featured in the MACBA 2021-22 exhibition In Real Time. Rafael Tous Collection of Conceptual Art.