Joaquín Torres-García

The Arcadian Modern

This major retrospective of Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874–1949) features works ranging from the late 19th century to the 1940s, including drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, and original artist notebooks and rare publications. The exhibition combines a chronological display with a thematic approach, structured in a series of major chapters in the artist’s career, with emphasis on two key moments: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres-García participated in various European early modern avant-garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic/Constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction.

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Dos figuras primitivas (Two primitive figures) (1930) Joaquín Torres-García Photo credit: Eduardo Baldizan © Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015.

Design for the fresco “L’Edat d’Or de la Humanitat” (The golden age of humanity) (1914) Joaquín Torres-García Photo credit: Ramon Maroto © Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015.

Figura de mujer (Figure of a woman) (1900), Joaquín Torres-García Photo credit: Peter Schälchli, Zurich © Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015.

Hoy (Today) (c. 1919) Joaquín Torres-García Photo credit: Juan García Rosell © Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015.

Construcción en blanco y negro (Construction in white and black) (1938) Joaquín Torres-García Photograph by Thomas Griesel © Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015.

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