Thomas McEvilley

Francesc Torres

Marilyn Zeitlin

Works by Francesc Torres : Arizona State University, Art Museum

Too Late for Goya

Clara Plasencia

Francesc Torres (b. Barcelona, 1948) produces most of his work between Spain and the United States. Torres explores the relationships between artistic practice and political analysis both in recent history and the present. He is fascinated by associations such as jealousy and violence, business and war, the competition inherent in the capitalist system and large-scale forms of state violence. This is a ground-breaking collection of socially and politically engaged art.

Da Capo

Photographic documentation of the excavation of a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War, in an effort to recover the country's historical memory.

Dark is the Room where We Sleep

Helaine Posner

Torres videotaped in the abandoned village of Belchite in northeastern Spain, which was virtually destroyed in 1937 in a major battle of the Spanish Civil War. The artist also videotaped in New York's South Bronx, an urban battlefield scarred by peacetime destruction, which has become increasingly dead and abandoned with intermittent outbursts of violence. The installation consists of an environment of highly stylized ruins depicting both sites and including tenement buildings, a bombed-out church, a basketball court, and the shell of an automobile. Torres has also produced a self-contained, single-channel videotape on this subject. The theoretical premise for Belchite/South Bronx is that the difference between war and peace exists only on statistical and rhetorical levels.

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