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HORACIO TORRES
Livorno 1924 - New York 1976
Of the many painters who studied with his father,
the great Constructivist artist Joaquín Torres-García,
Horacio Torres made the quantum leap into the Contemporary
art world of abstract and expressionistic painters in New York's 1970s.
That he did so with figurative canvases was a singular achievement.
Taken under the wing of the critic Clement Greenberg, who understood
that Horacio's work was really about painting and was thoroughly modern,
Horacio explored the thunderous territory of Titian,
Velasquez and late Goya with a unique background of skill and aesthetic
education in a contemporary way.
Thus the series of headless nudes and of figures with faces obscured,
make clear his painterly intentions and concerns.
His monumental canvases are wondrous exercises of painted imagination
formed with the structure of the depicted figure,
but they are not about nudes, they are about painting.
One Person Exhibitions: (partial listing)
| 1999 |  | Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | | Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York |
| 1989 | | Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York |
| 1986 | | Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York |
| 1983- | | Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, |
| 1982 | | Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada |
| 1981- | | Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York |
| 1975 | | ('81, '80, '79, '76, '75) |
| 1978 | | Galería Karlen Guggerlmeier, Montevideo |
| 1977 | | Meredith Long Contemporary, New York |
| 1975 | | Watson/de Nagy & Co., Houston |
| 1974 | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1973 | | Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York |
| 1968 | | Galería Moretti, Montevideo |
| 1965 | | Galería Moretti, Montevideo |
| 1963 | | Biblioteca Nacional, Montevideo |
| 1961 | | Galería Witcomb, Buenos Aires |
| 1956 | | Galerie Du Haut-Pavé, Paris |
Group Exhibitions: (partial listing)
| 1998: | | The Murals of Sant-Bois Hospital, Ministerio de Relaciónes Exteriores, Mont., Ur.
The School of the South, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
La Escuela del Sur - El Taller Torres-García, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, Cal. |
| 1997: | | A Escola do Sul, Pavilhão Cultural Renée Behar, São Paulo, Brazil
La Escuela del Sur, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
T-G y 10 Artistas del Taller, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dibujos en papel, Galería Clavé, Caracas, Venezuela
El Taller Torres-García, Museo Central de Costa Rica, San Juan |
| 1996: | | The Still Life, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York City
Constructive Universalism, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D. C. |
| 1995: | | 65 Years of Constructivist Wood, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York |
| 1993- | | El Taller Torres-García, The School of the South, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; |
| 1991 | | Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin,Texas; Museo de Monterrey &
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; The Bronx Museum, New York |
| 1990: | | Group 1990, Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York
Figuring the Body, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| 1982: | | Latin American Artists in New York since 1970, Huntington Art Gallery, Austin |
| 1981: | | Contemporary Realism,
The Figure, Tibor de Nagy, New York |
| 1980: | | Tibor de Nagy: Works from the Personal Collection, Syracuse U. Gallery, N.Y. |
| 1979: | | The Image of Post-Modern Man in Contemporary Painting, University of
Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville |
| 1979 | | Painterly Realism, Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston; Philbrook Art Center, |
| 1978 | | Tulsa, Oklahoma; Waco Creative Art Center, Texas |
| 1978: | | Selected Twentieth Century American Nudes, Harold Reed Gallery, New York |
| 1974: | | New Accessions U.S.A., Colorado Springs Fine Art Center |
| 1966: | | One Hundred Years - Uruguayan Painting, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1956: | | Jonges Schilders uit Uruguay, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
Works for Public Spaces:
| 1962 | | Three Murals in relief (brick), interior of the church of the Seminario de
Toledo, Canelones, Uruguay |
| 1958 | | Mural in relief (polychromed sheet steel), Liceo Miranda N°9, Montevideo |
| 1950 | | Mural decoration, ANCAP executive suite, Montevideo |
| 1944 | | Two Murals, Hospital Saint Bois, Montevideo |
Public Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpure Garden, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fine Arts Museum, Houston
De Menil Collection, Houston
Brandeis University Museum, Waltham
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Museé de Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Edmonton Museum, Alberta
Biblioteca Nacional, Montevideo
Museo Municipal, Montevideo
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