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6 Jun – 28 Sep

Francesc Torres “Accident 1977

At MACBA (Plaça dels Angels, 1) 7,5 € Buy tickets

Weekdays: 11am to 7:30pm
Sat: 10am to 8pm
Sun and holidays: 10am to 3pm
Tues: Closed (except holidays), Dec 25th and Jan 1st

The exhibition reveals to us an artist concerned with image, close to the painter. Torres emerges as a painter of history through the constant themes of his vocabulary: the machine, speed that erases the landscape, and the prehistoric figure. Together with the images, through associations of objects.

Torres synthesizes the vocabulary he has put into play in the installations and sculptural works. We are faced with the logic of the collage and the alteration of the media image, which comes from publications, television or cinema. A quotidian landscape of violence and destruction, as in the case of Newsweek Series (1990).

We are presented with an artist deeply concerned with the physical qualities of the works: the tonalities of color, the methods of constitution of the image, and the material links with certain artistic traditions. A series of ink drawings from 2007, The 1930s and 40s in the Air, explores the particular iconography of the fighter planes and the typologies of these machines. The drawings remind us of passages of previous works and return us to a world linked to childhood, where the fascination with speed and battle are explained by innocence. (Taken from www.macba.es)