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Biography
Uruguayan painter and theorician. In 1892, he moved to Barcelona, where he studied at the Baixas Academy and became involved with the Círculo Artístico. He worked as an illustrator for various magazines and participated in diverse exhibitions. In 1903-04, he worked with António Gaudí on the no Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Família, in Barcelona, and on the restoration of the stained glass at Palma Cathedral in Majorca. In 1910, he took part in the decoration of the Uruguayan pavilion at the International and Universal Exhibition in Brussels and, in 1911, he was contracted to paint frescos at the Salón de Sant Jordi in the Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona. Around 1915-16 he sought isolation in Tarrasa, where he painted local scenes and landscapes. In 1920, he moved to New York where he designed toys and, in 1922, returned to Europe. In 1928, he took part in the Salon d'Automne and met Mondrian whose influence was decisive in his work. In 1929, together with Mondrian, he founded the Cercle et Carré group, and in 1932, moved to Madrid, where he took part in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Society of Iberian Artists. In 1934, he decided to return to Uruguay and, in 1935, founded the Constructive Art Association. Between 1936 and 1943, he published Círculo y Cuadrado, a periodical which laid the foundations of Cubism, Neo-plasticism and Constructivism in Uruguay. In 1944, he published his most important book, Universalismo Constructivo, in which he puts forward his ideas on the plastic arts, profoundly influencing other artists and the whole of the South American art world. Torres-García forged the link between South American Pre-Columbian culture and European modern art movements, Cubism and Neo-plasticism in particular.
Exhibitions
Torres-Garcia: Grid-Patter-Sign, Paris-Montevideo, 1924-1944 Hayward Gallery, United Kingdom 01-01-1985 ~ 31-08-1985
Torres-Garcia: Grid-Patter-Sign, Paris-Montevideo, 1924-1944 Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf), Germany 01-05-1986 ~ 31-12-1986
Torres-Garcia: Grid-Patter-Sign, Paris-Montevideo, 1924-1944 Fundation Juan Miro, Spain 01-09-1985 ~ 30-04-1986
Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1920-1987 Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, USA 01-01-1987 ~ 30-06-1987
Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1920-1987 Center of Fine Arts (Miami), USA 01-07-1987 ~ 31-12-1987
Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1920-1987 Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporâneo, Mexico 01-01-1988 ~ 30-06-1988
Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1920-1987 Queens Museum, The, USA 01-07-1988 ~ 31-12-1988
Torres-Garcia Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain 01-01-1991 ~ 30-06-1991
Torres-Garcia IVAM Centre Julio González, Spain 01-07-1991 ~ 29-06-1992
Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, USA 01-01-1992 ~ 31-12-1992
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Contemporâneos de Arpad Szenes e Vieira da Silva na Collecção Berardo Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Portugal 06-03-2002 ~ 16-06-2002
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 14-12-2007 ~ 29-02-2008
“Intuição e a Estrutura” – De Torres Garcia a Vieira da Silva (1929-1949) Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 04-12-2008 ~ 15-02-2009
Bibliography
Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1920-1987, 1987 Published by Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; The Queens Museum, Flushing/New York; Center of Fine Arts, Miami and Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Contemporâneos de Arpad Szenes e Vieira da Silva na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva ISBN 9728467192
Torres-García, 1991 Published by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia
Torres-García: Grid-Patter-Sign, Paris-Montevideo, 1924-1944, 1985 Published by Hayward Gallery, London; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona and Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
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