Francesc Torres. Da capo

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Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) is the author of a very vast and varied body of work that fundamentally runs in opposition to the humanist vision of society. His multimedia installations representing speed, competition and machismo as sources and expressions of violence are well-known. Equally present in his work are war as a sophisticated and cultured expression of this violence and the fragility of historical memory in the face of political manipulation. Torres lived in Paris from 1967 to 1969, in the United States between 1972 and 2002 and in Berlin from 1986 to 1988, where he finished an essential part of his work that is still unknown to us. Neither the retrospective which the Reina Sofía National Museum and Art Centre dedicated to him in 1991, nor the creation of specific works in Barcelona or in Valencia between 1991 and 1996 were respectively able to give a complete vision of the artist. The exhibition the MACBA now dedicates to him represents a reading of the artist's work in museum tones, and also includes a "response" from the artist to the museum's reading in the form of new works created specifically for this occasion.