The Menil Collection and the MFAH present: Gallery Conversations: The Art of Joaquín Torres-García
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Nov 12, 2009 5:30 pm (Thursday)
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Nov 12, 2009 5:30 PM at the Audrey Jones Beck Building The Menil Collection and the MFAH present Gallery Conversations: The Art of Joaquín Torres-García Presented by Maria Ines Si...
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Nov 12, 2009 5:30 PM
at the Audrey Jones Beck Building
The Menil Collection and the MFAH present
Gallery Conversations: The Art of Joaquín Torres-García
Presented by Maria Ines Sicardi, Director, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5:30 p.m. — Program begins at Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross, meet in the lobby
7:00 p.m. — Program continues at MFAH, meet in the lobby of the Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street at Binz
Free and open to the public. Reservations, though appreciated, are not required.
Two complementary exhibitions—on view at the Menil Collection and the MFAH—showcase the work of the charismatic avant-garde painter, teacher, and theoretician, Joaquín Torres-García (1874—1949).
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García spent most of his life in Spain, Italy, France, and New York before returning to Uruguay in 1934 where he founded the Asociación de Arte Constructivo (AAC) and later the"Taller Torres-García," a school that promoted avant-garde experimentation.
Join Maria Ines Sicardi, Director, the Sicardi Gallery in Houston which has long represented the work of Torres-García and the artists of the Taller Torres-García, for a Gallery Conversation about Torres-García´s seminal role in the development of abstraction.
Through paintings, toys, wood constructions, and drawings, Torres-García sought to balance nature and reason through a system that he called Constructive Universalism. This artistic system was based on the fusion of the geometric grid, representing reason, with pictographic symbols, representing nature. Convinced that the impulse toward abstraction lay at the core of human nature, Torres-García incorporated into his works symbols found in the art of ancient civilizations such as references to the cosmos (for example, the sun), the ideal pentameter (the number five), proportion (the compass), strength and wisdom (the pillar), emotion (the heart), hope (the anchor), and nature (the fish).
at the Audrey Jones Beck Building
The Menil Collection and the MFAH present
Gallery Conversations: The Art of Joaquín Torres-García
Presented by Maria Ines Sicardi, Director, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5:30 p.m. — Program begins at Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross, meet in the lobby
7:00 p.m. — Program continues at MFAH, meet in the lobby of the Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street at Binz
Free and open to the public. Reservations, though appreciated, are not required.
Two complementary exhibitions—on view at the Menil Collection and the MFAH—showcase the work of the charismatic avant-garde painter, teacher, and theoretician, Joaquín Torres-García (1874—1949).
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García spent most of his life in Spain, Italy, France, and New York before returning to Uruguay in 1934 where he founded the Asociación de Arte Constructivo (AAC) and later the"Taller Torres-García," a school that promoted avant-garde experimentation.
Join Maria Ines Sicardi, Director, the Sicardi Gallery in Houston which has long represented the work of Torres-García and the artists of the Taller Torres-García, for a Gallery Conversation about Torres-García´s seminal role in the development of abstraction.
Through paintings, toys, wood constructions, and drawings, Torres-García sought to balance nature and reason through a system that he called Constructive Universalism. This artistic system was based on the fusion of the geometric grid, representing reason, with pictographic symbols, representing nature. Convinced that the impulse toward abstraction lay at the core of human nature, Torres-García incorporated into his works symbols found in the art of ancient civilizations such as references to the cosmos (for example, the sun), the ideal pentameter (the number five), proportion (the compass), strength and wisdom (the pillar), emotion (the heart), hope (the anchor), and nature (the fish).
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