Description of the work

The work Costa Mediterránea by the artist Rosa Torres. Size: 36.5 x 51 cm. Technique: acrylic / tar. Year: 2010.

The artist Rosa Torres Molina is a painter and engraver. He was born in Valencia in 1948.

He spent the first twenty years of his life in the Basque Country. Where his family moved when his father got a job as a professor. Espai Cavallers Gallery.

His work is free from false pretenses. Throughout his long career he has remained faithful to a personal and unmistakable language. From its beginnings, it has always based painting on real images, be they landscapes, wild animals and / or classical compositions.

He studied Baccalaureate and Teaching in Bilbao. Towards the end of the 60's he returned to Valencia to study Fine Arts, where he quickly began to interact with the most avant-garde artists of the time: Juan Antonio Toledo, Equip Crónica, Equip Realidad, Jordi Teixidor etc.

INFLUENCES

His influences include Pop Art, Op Art and Impressionism.

In his early years he approached the subjects through a pictorial procedure that approached the gestural abstraction that evolved towards a greater synthesis of shapes and colors; by reducing all anecdotal elements by the synthesis of the image, the use of flat inks of vivid tones and the prominence of the black line.

Series work has been a constant throughout his work since the early 1970s.

He has produced more than a hundred editions of graphic works. Among engravings, serigraphs, posters, book covers and various objects that testify to his interest in serial art.

Part of them collected in “Rosa Torres, 1972/2000, Graphic work and multiples”, catalog published by Caixa Rural de Torrent, in 2001.

From the early 70's until 2008 he regularly exhibited at the Galeria Sen in Madrid Archived 2018-05-05 at Wayback Machine. He has regularly worked with various Spanish art galleries in Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona and San Sebastián.

For more information on the work Costa Mediterránea by the artist Rosa Torres, in Espai Cavallers.