"Dealing with History as Raw Material for Art" Artist Talk and "Art and Historical Representation. An Excuse to Talk about Multimedia Installation Art" Workshop
Francesc Torres
ARTIST TALK: “Dealing with History As Raw Material for Art”
Thursday, October 27, 6-8pm
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
WORKSHOP: “Art and Historical representation. An Excuse to talk About Multimedia Installation Art”
Friday 28, 10-12:30pm
Hatcher Graduate Library, Lab 100
Open to the Public
For more information contact Cristina Moreiras-Menor (moreiras@umich.edu) or visit lsa.umich.edu/rll.
Francesc Torres is a prominent visual artist, a curator and essayist who was born in Barcelona and lived and worked in Paris, Chicago and New York before returning to Catalunya.
He has done exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Center in Madrid, the Valencian Modern Art Institute, the National Gallery of Berlin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Rudolfinum Galerie (Prague); the Russian State Museum (Saint Petersburg) and the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Fundació Joan Miró; the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern IVAM (Valencia); the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), the International Center of Photography (NYC), among others. He also has permanent work in the public space. He curates exhibitions and writes for several journals internationally and newspapers in Spain. He has been president of the Catalan Association of Visual Artists.
Because of his interest in relation with violence, ruins, memory and remnants, Torres was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum to photograph the World Trade Center debris housed in Hanger 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
His work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bohen Foundation, both in New York, and the American Center Foundation in Paris. He has been the recipient, among other fellowship, of the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship in four occasions, the New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in two occasions, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts in two occasions, the D.A.A.D. given by the German Government, the Emil Radok Prize by the University of Prague, the Picasso Foundation Prize, and the Fulbright Academic Exchange Fellowship. He also received the Visual Arts National Prize given by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain. He was recently Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University.
Among his innumerable number of exhibition and installations work are:
The Twentieth Century In Colours, Memória Fragmentada, CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Oscura es la habitación donde dormimos. Francesc Torres. ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Da capo. Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Dark ist the Room We Sleep. ICP - International Center of Photography, Nueva York, and El Soliloquio de la Felicidad. Sala Metrònom, Barcelona, España.
Thursday, October 27, 6-8pm
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
WORKSHOP: “Art and Historical representation. An Excuse to talk About Multimedia Installation Art”
Friday 28, 10-12:30pm
Hatcher Graduate Library, Lab 100
Open to the Public
For more information contact Cristina Moreiras-Menor (moreiras@umich.edu) or visit lsa.umich.edu/rll.
Francesc Torres is a prominent visual artist, a curator and essayist who was born in Barcelona and lived and worked in Paris, Chicago and New York before returning to Catalunya.
He has done exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Center in Madrid, the Valencian Modern Art Institute, the National Gallery of Berlin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Rudolfinum Galerie (Prague); the Russian State Museum (Saint Petersburg) and the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Fundació Joan Miró; the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern IVAM (Valencia); the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), the International Center of Photography (NYC), among others. He also has permanent work in the public space. He curates exhibitions and writes for several journals internationally and newspapers in Spain. He has been president of the Catalan Association of Visual Artists.
Because of his interest in relation with violence, ruins, memory and remnants, Torres was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum to photograph the World Trade Center debris housed in Hanger 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
His work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bohen Foundation, both in New York, and the American Center Foundation in Paris. He has been the recipient, among other fellowship, of the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship in four occasions, the New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in two occasions, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts in two occasions, the D.A.A.D. given by the German Government, the Emil Radok Prize by the University of Prague, the Picasso Foundation Prize, and the Fulbright Academic Exchange Fellowship. He also received the Visual Arts National Prize given by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain. He was recently Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University.
Among his innumerable number of exhibition and installations work are:
The Twentieth Century In Colours, Memória Fragmentada, CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Oscura es la habitación donde dormimos. Francesc Torres. ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Da capo. Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Dark ist the Room We Sleep. ICP - International Center of Photography, Nueva York, and El Soliloquio de la Felicidad. Sala Metrònom, Barcelona, España.
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