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Francesc Torres

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8489771634 ISBN 13: 9788489771635

Publisher: Museu Dart Contemporani de Barcelona, 2008

Synopsis

Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) produces most of his work between Spain and the United States. Torres explores the relationships between artistic practice and political analysis both in recent history and the present. He is fascinated by associations such as jealousy and violence, business and war, the inherent competition in the capitalist system and large-scale forms of state violence. This is a ground-breaking collection of socially and politically engaged art.

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About the Author

FRANCESC TORRES (Barcelona, 1948) Trained at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, in 1967 he moved to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and worked as an assistant to Piotr Kowalski, a Polish sculptor as well as architect and physicist from MIT, who would be a major influence on Torres. Torres moved to the US in 1974, remaining there until the early 2000s, when he returned to Barcelona. Throughout his career, Torres has done performance, photography, video and installations. Francesc Torres' works question social order based on the relations between political and economic power. One of the marks of his work is his attention to memory and the present, in a detailed and careful reading of critical episodes in history linked to specific contexts. Examining the machinery of war and violence in culture and history, Torres often assumes the role of historian or philosopher and contemplates the tensions between the implacability of the passage of time and fragility of memory, in politically loaded spaces.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museu Dart Contemporani de Barcelona
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8489771634
• ISBN 13: 9788489771635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236