Exposiciones temporales
PORTICUS by Torregar
- 26/11/2024 - 28/04/2025
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PORTICUS by Torregar
11/27/-2024/04-28-2025
The PORTICUS exhibition by José Antonio Torregar is part of a painting project that the artist has been working on for more than eight years, a large series with more than two hundred works from which a selection has been made for exhibition at the Roman Theatre Museum in Cartagena.
In this project, the artist has immersed himself with his brushes in the great corpus of works from the classical world, immortal works that have come down to us in different circumstances, and many of which decorated forums and porticos in Antiquity to embellish public meeting spaces. These Greek and Roman sculptures have been his source of inspiration, and bring us closer to our classical heritage, to our own identity as European citizens of the 21st century.
In the tour of the exhibition, the viewer will be confronted with a creative process where painting is used as a poetic language and evokes the artist's profound admiration for the beauty of these sculptural works, placing the focus of attention especially on the feminine world of Venus/Aphrodite. These works are born from the perspective of contemporary art where the artist seeks in the ancient world a meeting point and a point of dialogue.
This process has led the artist to carry out a pictorial exercise that manifests itself through the successive layers of colour that can be partially seen as a stratigraphic sequence, as if the passage of time had taken its toll on the paintings themselves, creating glazes of time, and where Torregar has played with processes of construction and destruction of matter, resulting in works that invite the viewer to rediscover the different textures and finishes of the paintings.
In this exhibition, Torregar brings us closer to the splendour of Greco-Latin culture, which is the basis of our heritage and a fundamental pillar of our Western culture. In it, the goddesses Aphrodite and Athena engage in dialogue with great historical figures such as the poet Homer, Alexander the Great and the Emperor Augustus himself.
About the artist
José Antonio Torregrosa García, 'Torregar' , was born in 1978 in Ceutí (Murcia), the city where he resides, has his studio and has developed much of his work.
Torregar is a contemporary visual artist who reflects on human existence, the passage of time and its reflection on the face. Themes that, along with flesh, memory, conservation and the question of identity, are the main themes of his work.
After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades in Murcia, she graduated in Fine Arts at the San Carlos Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she completed her doctoral studies. She received several scholarships, such as the Erasmus scholarship that allowed her to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (1999-2000) or the residency scholarship at the Antonio Gala Foundation, Córdoba (2003-2004). In addition, she has trained with great professionals such as Joan Fontcuberta, Pablo Genovés, Marina Abramovic, Antonio López and Javier Pérez.
Since 2008 he has been an associate professor in the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia, where he teaches the subjects 'Pictural procedures and techniques' and 'Pictural projects'. In his teaching work, he transmits his passion for art in all its expressive possibilities and his curiosity for researching the subject.
He has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, as well as a number of group exhibitions. His work is included in public and private collections, both national and international, such as the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and the ESU Università di Ca'Foscari in Venice (Italy); the University of Murcia, the University of Valencia, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante), the Contemporary Art Funds of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the FIES Spanish Institutional Foundation (Madrid), the Lalín Municipal Museum (Pontevedra), the Glasets Hus Museum (Limmared, Sweden), the Open-Air Museum of Ceutí (Murcia), the Mula City Museum, the Convent of San Francisco de Mula (Murcia), the Valdepeñas Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Letters and Watermark (Fabriano, Italy), the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice (Italy), the Antonio Gala Foundation (Cordoba), the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation (Madrid), the Caja Murcia Foundation, the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and the Langreo Art Gallery (Asturias), among many others.
Throughout his career he has received important awards, including First Prize in the 41st Villa de Sant Joan d'Alacant Painting Competition (2008) and the 'Un futuro DEARTE' award, Madrid (2008); he also won First Prize in the “5th Iberdrola-Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Painting Competition” (2007) and, in 2006, the Art Nalón National Prize for Plastic Arts, Langreo (Asturias).
Temporary Exhibition Hall of the Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum
Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum
Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 9
30201 Cartagena, Murcia (Spain)
Telephone: (+34) 968 504 802
www.teatroromanocartagena.org
Cartagena Roman Theatre Foundation:
Cartagena City Council
Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia
Caja Murcia Foundation
Collaborator
Iberdrola Foundation
