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Selección textos escritos por críticos de arte de exposiciones realizadas por ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (1949) de Arte Geométrico: Pintura, Escultura y DIGITAL Geometría que ella inició en 1991 con COMBINABLES y TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO formulando la matemática continua y geometría para sus obras. Anteriormente, ella trabajó 25 años (1965-1990) en pintura de paisaje, composiciones de arquitectura geométrica y en las dos pinturas que realizó ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES de la escultura de mármol de ARIADNE (1986-88) en el MUSEUM del PRADO, MADRID.
1994·Catálogo Exposición Premio Pintura L´OREAL X Edición, geometry Trazado Espacial Continuo XXXVI 180x180cm by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid
1994·Texto Miguel Fernández- Cid catálogo exposición Premio Pintura L´OREAL X Edición, exposición Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 1994
La Pintura
individual de Iluminada García-Torres
texto de Miguel
Fernández-Cid (1990)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
(Elche 1949). Ella realiza una exposición en la
Galería Albatros de Madrid. Unas de sus
obras, tienen de motivo la escultura de mármol de
Ariadne (Hilo intangible). "Iba al Museo del Prado pensando en una
imagen que motivara mi mente y encontré esta escultura. Allí pinté la escultura
en un lienzo frente a esta y después en otro lienzo la pinté como si la escultura estuviera mirando al infinito... y sé que volveré a interpretar a
esta Ariadne, porque me
resulta imposible olvidar su
perfección, su armonía, su control matemático".
Las pinturas de la
escultura de Ariadne las realiza desde una interpretación, con el mar y un
paisaje diluido. "Nací cerca del mar y, aunque a los dieciséis años vine a
Madrid, a estudiar Bellas Artes, su presencia la tengo siempre cerca. Lo sé por
la necesidad de incluir una
línea del horizonte, una referencia al espacio en cada pintura".
El estilo de su pintura queda más patente en las obras
en las que ella, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, con la idea y los elementos mínimos de una
composición, deriva hacia fórmulas arquitectónicas. Morandi, la pintura
metafísica de Giorgio de Chirico y los quattrocentistas no están lejos de su
pintura. Con unas barras cilíndricas y una caja sobre una mesa ella pinta
geometrías nítidas, pinturas de espacialidad. Vistos desde otra perspectiva,
los mismos elementos semejan un laberinto, con una idea geométrica que evoca
constantemente su pintura, "un objeto es distinto según cómo lo vemos, la
cercanía de otro objeto lo modifica en nuestra percepción"¿Cómo no
entender que la pintura de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES es individual?.
1995·Texto by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES catálogo exposición Premio Pintura L´OREAL XI Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 1995
1995·Texto de Miguel Fernández-Cid catálogo exposición Premio Pintura L´OREAL XI Edición,
geometry Trazado Espacial Continuo by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES 180x180cm. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 1995
1996·geometría Trazado Espacial Continuo LXXV by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, 180x180cm.
exposición Premio Pintura L´OREAL XII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 1996
1996·geometría Trazado Espacial Continuo LXXV by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, 180x180cm.
Catálogo Exposición Premio Pintura L´OREAL
XII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 1996
2000·Continual Spatial Tracing, Paintings Geometric Art by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
Exhibition Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College, LONDON. January 2000
GEOMETRIAS (1996)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949 Elche, Alicante), she is,
painter. And of -hers work and the way of undertaking this- we could say that
it is a rationalization, sensitivity and expression in the Geometric Art. To realized hers work ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
establishes a previous Geometric order,
very concrete and precise, -square matrix-, divided into other twenty-five
exact and equal, as a grid, defined by lines or points; which in turn can be
subdivided.
Mathematical disposition that will direct the initiation
and realization of hers work. The beginning of the –pictorial action-
becomes an event, an extraordinary and unique fact that modifies the
established and conditions the development of the work of ILUMINADA
GARCIA-TORRES. And the painting is full of infinite possibilities - lines expressed with the law of
verticality and horizontality and in proportionality with the dimensions of the
squares. For example, the painting can only be the structure, as a
regularized surface; or be arranged in sections; or -the square matrix- contain
squares of different dimensions, color, location and texture; or that on a
color with different gradations juxtapose other forms of color and establish
new interactions, etc.
Hers brushstrokes, of the painter ILUMINADA
GARCIA-TORRES, are lines of color with dimensions in proportion to the surfaces
of the squares, in a single gesture -meditated- each one of the brush strokes
made, an echo of herself with its emotional poetic . And also an event, which
determines the quality of the successive brushstroke.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES necessarily draws from the sensitivity, which requires a
preparation, tense attitude and meditative attention in the realization of the
linear brushstrokes. The picture as she is
painting it changes, and she, the painter, is there to decide the next action pictorial.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, does not consider the
edges as the end of the work, allowing it to continue. Fortunately, she
conceives each painting as a possible part of a more complex whole; and in consequence,
the linear edge is a provisional limit. Because the basic structure is, the
square, studied in the spatial modulation that is produced in its subdivision
or the sum of geometric squares -as she
formulates it in her theoretical reflections (1991)-, and to constitute a
theoretically infinite work. That requires the systematic application of the
concept so that each work of Geometric Art maintains its potential development.
An undoubted risk,
although full of interest, that would give the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
an innovative dimension.
(1996)Text by Segundo
G. Manzanet, Director Museum Asegurada, MACA. Exhibition Catalog GEOMETRIAS / ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Institute
of Culture Juan Gil-Albert, University of Alicante1996, MUA. Exhibition Alicante,
November 6-26, 1996. Casa de Cultura de Villena, January 24-February 16, 1997.
1996· 2º Premio geometría
Trazado Espacial Continuo LXX by LUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, 180x180cm. Catálogo Exposición Colección Artes Plásticas 1982-1996 del Colegio Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid
1997·Premios Villa de Madrid. Pintura · Escultura/geometría de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, exposición Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid
1997· estudio en MADRID de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, geometría TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO XCV, acrilico/lienzo 180x180cm.
1997·geometría TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO XCV 180x180cm by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
Catálogo Exposición Premio Pintura L´ORÉAL XIII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 1997
1998-1999· Continual Spatial Tracing, installation geometric paintings acrílico/canvas and sculptures by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, GASWORKS STUDIOS. LONDON
1998-1999· Installation, Continual Spatial Tracing geometry digital on paper and sculptures by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, GASWORKS STUDIOS. LONDON
1999· Instalación, Puerta Del Espacio by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, I Universidad de Verano de Escultura, Taller Técnicas mixtas dirigido por Coomonte, Fundación Eduardo Capa-Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Castillo Santa Bárbara Alicante, 5-30 julio1999
2000· Installation, Continual Spatial Tracing, geometric art paintings and digital on paper and sculptures by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES Exhibition Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College, LONDON January 2000
2000· Continual Spatial Tracing, geometric paintings 200x100cm each by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
Exhibition Hortensia Gallery Kensington and Chelsea College, LONDON January 2000
2000·cerámica by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
Fundación Eduardo Capa Castillo de Santa Barbara, Alicante
2001·Entre el uno el dos y el tres, texto Isabel Tejeda Martín. Catálogo Exposición de Iluminada García-Torres, Casa Cultura de El Campello (Alicante) 12 mayo–20 junio 2001
2001·geometria Hilo de Ariadna trazado espacial continuo CXXXIII by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES,
180x180cm. Catálogo Premio de Pintura L´OREAL XVII Edición. Exposición Centro Cultural Conde Duque. MADRID 2001
Text, Simón Marchán Fiz (2001)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (EICHE 1949), she unravels Ariadne's thread through an optical combinatorial impregnated by cybernetic randomness, a code expressed in lines that contrast with the unchanging presence of squares as zero grade and reference to the essentials, distilling a great lyricism, color vibrations and harmony of balance complement each other.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (EICHE 1949), she unravels Ariadne's thread through an optical combinatorial impregnated by cybernetic randomness, a code expressed in lines that contrast with the unchanging presence of squares as zero grade and reference to the essentials, distilling a great lyricism, color vibrations and harmony of balance complement each other.
text Simón Marchán Fiz, Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Faculty of Philosophy UNED Madrid.
The expansion of painting in the cold auras text Catalog Exhibition XVII Edition Painting Prize L'OREAL. Conde Duque Cultural Center. Madrid 2001
2001·geometría Hilo de Ariadna trazado espacial continuo CXXXIII, by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
180x180cm. Exposición Premio de Pintura L´OREAL XVII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. MADRID 2001
Texto, Simón Marchán Fiz (2001)
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (EICHE 1949),
ella desenreda el Hilo de Ariadna a través de una combinatoria óptica impregnada por la aleatoriedad cibernética, código expresado en líneas que contrastan con la presencia inmutable de los cuadrados en cuanto grado cero y referencia a lo esencial, un gran lirismo, las vibraciones del color y la armonía del equilibrio se complementan.
ella desenreda el Hilo de Ariadna a través de una combinatoria óptica impregnada por la aleatoriedad cibernética, código expresado en líneas que contrastan con la presencia inmutable de los cuadrados en cuanto grado cero y referencia a lo esencial, un gran lirismo, las vibraciones del color y la armonía del equilibrio se complementan.
texto Simón Marchán Fiz, Catedrático de Estética y Teoría del Arte, Facultad de Filosofía, UNED MADRID.
La expansión de la pintura en las auras frías texto Catálogo. Exposición XVII Edición Premio de Pintura L'OREAL. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid 2001
2001·SIMÓN MARCHÁN FIZ Catedrático de Estética y Teoría del Arte. UNED MADRID. texto LA EXPANSIÓN DE LA PINTURA EN LAS AURAS FRÍAS catálogo exposición Premio de Pintura L´OREAL XVII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque MADRID 2001
2001·SIMÓN MARCHÁN FIZ Catedrático de Estética y Teoría del Arte. UNED MADRID. texto LA EXPANSIÓN DE LA PINTURA EN LAS AURAS FRÍAS/Iluminada García-Torres, catálogo exposición Premio de Pintura L´OREAL XVII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque MADRID 2001
2001·Catálogo Exposición Premio de Pintura L´OREAL Arte Contemporáneo XVII Edición/Artistas seleccionados. Centro Cultural Conde Duque MADRID 2001
2002·catálogo exposición EL HILO DE ARIADNA 1991-2002 by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, sala M. Lonja del Pescado, Alicante del 30-04 al 28-05, 2002
POESIA GEOMÉTRICA Y EMOCIONAL
José Manuel Alvarez Enjuto (2002)
No es fácil responder a los procesos
aritméticos y ortogonales, de la poesía y sensibilidad de los contenidos
compositivos en la obra de ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (EICHE 1949).
Ella hace en el Arte Geométrico una formulación expresiva centrada
específicamente, en la investigación de la ordenación espacial mediante la
multiplicación seriada de la línea en progresión. En relación y evolución
consecutiva con el sólo trazo de una recta mediática en el espacio, o lo que es
lo mismo, mediante el dibujo de una línea, ella consigue alcanzar el propósito
metafísico del afán creativo.
La
poética aritmética y emocional en la obra
de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
dispone de esa verdad consubstancial que responde a un hecho prístino y
esencial dotado de una transcendencia metafísica capaz de alterar cualquier
conjetura filosófica. El arte transcendido a través de fórmulas aritméticas y
de secuencias espaciales rítmicas que ella describe.
Una
iconografía donde el módulo continuo, la coherente variación matemática domina
la visualidad, reclama, cuando menos, una reflexión sobre la pintura matemática
y los órdenes espaciales equilibrados. Y esto nos conduce inevitablemente a la
corriente de Stilj, Mondrian, Rietveld autores que entendieron que en la
geometría y en la ordenación espacial mediante iconos cromáticos o compositivos
planos equilibrados podrían establecerse los órdenes racionales de sus
propuestas.
Procesos
en la elaboración de esos esquemas gestuales valedores de las obras. Un hecho
de transcendencia si entendemos las obras de Arte Geométrico de
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES desde
su creatividad, con
la congregación de todas estas
singularidades expresivas que ella dispone en la poesía geométrica.
Ciertamente
la iconografía transcrita en las pinturas de la artista ILUMINADA GARCIA- TORRES quizá
corresponda al genuino material del
repertorio geométrico de la cuadrícula y a la música de la aritmética en sus
interacciones.
Hacer
valer una composición sustentada en la belleza reiterativa modular de la línea
y de las reticular geometrías cuadrangulares, capaces de reivindicar la
expansión, la ilimitud y la afirmación una vez que los gestualismos
trazados desde la variable matemática son los agentes de las armonías
resultantes, hemos de entender una expresividad muy especial en las obras
de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES que ella da
en la exactitud de la pincelada en el proceso discursivo de un orden
caligráfico meditativo.
Una expresión pictórica
prístina, fundamentada en la medida, el gesto, los ritmos compositivos, la
transición formal, la vibración del color, la transcendencia metafísica. La
geometría y aritmética como razón determinante.
POESIA GEOMÉTRICA Y EMOCIONAL
texto José Manuel Alvarez
Enjuto, abril 2002
Catálogo exposición de ILUMINADA
GARCIA-TORRES. EL HILO DE ARIADNA 1991-2002
30/04 - 28/05 2002, sala Municipal de exposiciones Lonja
del Pescado. Alicante
2002·catálogo exposición EL HILO DE ARIADNA 1991-2002 by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, sala Municipal Lonja del Pescado, Alicante del 30/04 - 28/05, 2002
2002·LORÉAL Arte Contemporáneo· Jurado XVIII Edición, exposición CentroCulturalCondeDuque. MADRID
2002·geometría El Hilo de Ariadna CLXV by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES, 180x180cm.
Catálogo Exposición Premio L´OREAL ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO XVIII Edición. Centro Cultural Conde Duque MADRID 2002
2015·Trazado Espacial Continuo by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES, Centro Municipal. Exposicions de ELCHE-Elx 15mayo-6 septembre 2015.
2015·Trazado Espacial Continuo by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES, Centro Municipal Exposicions de exposicions ELCHE-Elx 15mayo-6 septembre 2015.
2009· exposición, ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES Retrospectiva 1982-2009, sala exposiciones del Castillo de Santa Barbara, Alicante 6 octubre - 29 noviembre, 2009
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2003· El Hilo de Ariadna- Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (geometría digital on canvas 90x180cm each), exposición Colección Hotel H. Amerigo en el Centro Municipal de las Artes Alicante del 12 al 17 diciembre 2003
2003· Catálogo exposición Colección Hotel H. Amerigo digital geometría El Hilo de Ariadna- Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de las Artes Alicante del 12 al 17 diciembre 2003
2003· Catálogo exposición Colección Hotel H. Amerigo digital geometry El Hilo de Ariadna- Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de las Artes Alicante del 12 al 17 diciembre 2003
2003·exposición geometría digital Colección Hotel H. Amerigo El Hilo de Ariadna- Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de las Artes Alicante del 12 al 17 diciembre 2003
PIXELS (2003) ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949), she
in this
exhibition presents her work of Digital Geometric Art, El Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria, a
research with new technological media. The result is innovative, rigorous and
coherent that we can observe in the evolution of hers work, whose genesis is in
the pictorial work of hers teacher Antonio López García and from which her
assimilated the measure and direct-gesture.
In the observation of the sublime marble sculpture of Ariadna that she
discovered in the Prado Museum (1984), ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES tries to armonize he creative Thread to get herself the labyrinth of her artistic capacity.
Geometry in the plane and in the space that in something would
assimilate of the teachings that she received from the also Alicante artist,
Eusebio Sempere.
The lines drawn, made in a dynamic way, of a single gesture, in relation of
proportionality with space reticular, mathematics and geometry, time and light.
And the origin of Trazado Espacial Continuo Continuous Spatial Drawings has been for more than a
decade in the geometry of hers work Combinables.
That is why in the artworks of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES we contemplate geometries that can be multiplied infinitely thanks to the combinatorial of color and digital processes, which are possible by linking their Geometry research with the new technological advances of science computer.
That is why in the artworks of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES we contemplate geometries that can be multiplied infinitely thanks to the combinatorial of color and digital processes, which are possible by linking their Geometry research with the new technological advances of science computer.
She draws, from the point, original singular gestural lines in the
reticular space, in rhythmic sequences, that in this work of Digital Geometric
Art, the pixels constituting of the new structure of the line.
This exhibition, belonging to the hundred works of geometry (digital
printing on canvas 90x180cm each) which constitute the Amerigo Collection, can
be seen in Alicante at the Hotel of the same name, where the geometries
designed by ILUMINADA
GARCIA-TORRES will show us a world of harmonies fused with the
Mediterranean light, where the azure and marine blue, the earth and solar
ocher, and the violet tones of an alborear of the horizon prevail, which is the
line from which all forms emerge.
Text by Joaquín Santo Matas - Director of the Alicante Institute of Culture
Juan Gil-Albert. Catalog exhibition El
Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES Municipal
Center for the Arts. Alicante 2003
2004·exposición Música y Arte II, triptico geometría digital El Hilo de Ariadna-utopia: sinfonía, sonata y penta by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (imagendigital print on canvas 285x200cm) Palau de la Música de Valencia, 01/12/2004 al 16/01/2005
SONIDOS
DE LA PINTURA (2004)ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, (Elche, Alicante, 1949) ha hecho una apuesta decidida por arte geométrico, desarrollando formas y colores organizados ortogonalmente. Siguiendo caminos ya abiertos por el Kandinsky geométrico de la época de la Bauhaus alemana, autor de PUNTO Y LÍNEA SOBRE EL PLANO, y el Neoplasticismo holandés, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES entiende su pintura y su escultura como un sistema matemático de proporciones y formas geométricas.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES logra formular, en 1991, un módulo reticular básico de cuadrados, donde dibujó los puntos y líneas. Este módulo será el comienzo de una futura experimentación en Arte Geométrico.
Un cosmos
geométrico y matemático, que ILUMINADA
GARCIA-TORRES considera mundos
independientes, pero partícipes de la totalidad. Están perfectamente calculadas
con arreglo a sistemas de proporción
en sus medidas. Estas formas significan el concepto de lo lleno y vacío. La relación entre espacios llenos y espacios
vacíos es dinámica, porque genera múltiples variaciones, determinadas por el
color, la forma, el número, la dirección, de las líneas. Estamos, pues, ante un
espacio interactivo que genera una armonía integradora de todos los elementos geométricos
en la composición, con efectos cercanos al Optical art.
El hilo de Ariadna, es el nombre genérico
que ha adoptado para denominar a sus obras, inspiradas en la escultura de mármol de Ariadna del Museo del Prado, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES descubrió en este mármol (1987) una armonía de orden geométrico
y matemático que iba a presidir su
trabajo futuro. La investigación del
espacio ha ido complicando formalmente sus propuestas con una multiplicación de
seriaciones de secuencias rítmicas, paralelas al mundo de la música,
geometrías pictóricas que ella denomina Trazado
Espacial Continuo. Desde esta propuesta su obra se incorpora a las nuevas tecnologías aplicables al arte
de la pintura.Las recientes obras de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES nos ofrecen geometrías de desarrollo infinito gracias a las combinatorias de color y los procesos de la imagen generada por computer sciencie donde la pincelada está estructurada ahora por el píxel (picture element), punto en una rejilla rectilínea de puntos para formar una imagen digital geométrica.
Con
este proceso digital de la imagen ha realizado ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES las geometrías de la presente exposición Música y Arte II. Constituyen
el inicio de una nueva serie cuyo punto de expansión es la musicalidad. Esta
artista ha sabido ver y trabajar los aspectos estéticos que ofrecen los grafismos de la notación musical. El pentagrama o tetragrama constituyen la
estructura lineal donde deposita los "signos" musicales, en el intento
de evocar la verdadera grafía, que
le permite a ella, de nuevo, desarrollar investigaciones vinculadas al Optical
art y sugerir movimientos virtuales.
Texto de Laura Sanz García (2004) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Texto de Laura Sanz García (2004) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pascual Patuel
Chust
Universitat de Valencia
SONIDOS
DE LA PINTURA Catálogo exposición Música y Arte II. Palau de
la Música de Valencia 2004.
2009·exposición ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES Retrospectiva 1982-2009, Arte Digital Geométrico (1991-2009), Castillo de Santa Barbara Alicante, 6 octubre - 29 noviembre, 2009
2009·Exposición ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES Retrospectiva 1982-2009 digital·Castillo de Santa Bárbara Alicante 2009 among-lines.blogspot.com
2015·exposición GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD, digital diagrams geometry Ariadne´sThread-musicalité Greece 5 - Paris 21,23 by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (imagendigital print on canvas 180x90cm each) Centro Municipal Exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX 15 mayo - 6 septiembre, 2015
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ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES
1949 Elche Elx (Alicante) España
1965-1970 Studies Professor Drawing in the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and Faculty of Fine Arts COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY, MADRID. In the first course the teacher of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES is the painter Antonio López García and in 1969 Eusebio Sempere, year that he reconciled the teaching with the research in the Computer Center of the Complutense University of Madrid.
1990·exposición pinturas óleo de Iluminada García-Torres. Galería Albatros. Madrid 1990
Selection of texts written by art critics of exhibitions made by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949) of Geometric Art: Pictorial, Sculpture and DIGITAL Geometry that she started in 1991 with COMBINABLES and TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO formulating continuous mathematics and geometry for hers works. Previously, she worked 25 years (1965-1990) in landscape painting, geometric architecture compositions and in the two paintings that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES made of the ARIADNE the marble sculpture (1986-88) in the MUSEUM of PRADO, MADRID.
Pintura óleo (1988) de la escultura-mármol de ARIADNE, Museo del Prado (Madrid) by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES exposición Galería Albatros, Madrid 1990.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
02/06/15.- ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (Elche 1949) she has made a Retrospective Exhibition with the title of Geometry, Color and Musicality, digital diagrams and painting 1991-2015, in the Municipal Exhibition Center of the city, Elche-Elx.
Julia Sáez-Angulo, vicepresident of the Madrid Association of Art Critics, AMCA, and member of the AECA / Spain International, writes in the catalog:
Geometry, Color and Musicality are three concepts of the eurythmy that emerges from the artistic work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
Geometry in which the rhythm of a musicality visible to the eyes is appreciated, inaudible, only in appearance.
She draws the dancing rhythm of a musicality that manifests herself in the wise administration of color on the support of paper, canvas ... geometry that dances; a musicality that is expressed in colors. Kandinsky already talked about it when he attributed musical notes to colors. Look at the sounds, hear the color.
Since the 90s she, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has a coherent research trajectory in Geometric Art, painting, sculpture and digital diagrams, from hers works of Continuous Spatial Tracing,
Combinables to El Hilo de Ariadne. Geometry, color, rhythm and musicality are present in a creative world of lines, circles, squares, pixels ... designed by her artistic mind. Without leaving the painting, she uses the new technological means, which are fundamental in the generation of her innovative geometric artworks.
Geometry, Color and Musicality, is the conceptual key that describes the digital and pictorial geometrical work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
The lines drawn in the space reticular square, horizons that expand in cartographies of the musicality, express in the digital geometries of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES a perception of she at different countries, continents or cities: MUSICALITY-Sweden-Madrid-South America-Berlin -NewYork-MumbaiBombay-Beiying-Europe-GreeceGrecia-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Brooklyn-Africa-Universe.
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES, in 1965 she ingress and studied Professor of Drawing at the Superior Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid and Complutense University of Madrid. She lived in Madrid until 1997 and later in London, where she was a guest artist at Gasworks Studios of London, and since mid-1999 she resides in Alicante. In 2000 she returned to London to make an exhibition at Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College in London.
In 2003 ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES presented her geometry research, El hilo de Ariadna-Combinatoria, with the new technological media. Geometric art: one hundred works (200x100 cm.each) for the Art Collection of Hotel H. Amerigo, Alicante.
In her Continuous Spatial Drawings, she, the painter ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES highlights each brushstroke in an affirmation of the energy, lines in brushstrokes of unique gesture, singular each of the lines in the meditative trajectory of rhythms in color gradations in the squares of her works in Geometric Art, and in the geometry compositions of she, with the new digital media, the PIXELS constitute the structure of the lines.
Published by Julia Saez Angulo y Dolores Gallardo en L.M.A.
music-numerical.blogspot.com Berlin
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lines-numerical.blogspot.com Sweden
musica-numerico.blogspot.com Madrid
50 YEARS OF TRAJECTORY PICTORIAL AND DIGITAL GEOMETRY (2015)
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (1949 Elche) celebrates 50 years of hers Pictorial work and Digital Geometric Art. It is in 1986, when the appointments, she paints the marble sculpture of Ariadna in the Prado Museum and finds a new pictorial concept in her work. If the teachers of quantum physics, theory of everything, make hypotheses of the universe. The painter ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES discovered in the mythology of the Thread of Ariadna the point to develop in the Geometric Art and to find a full significance to her work.
The concepts that give name to the exhibition Geometry, Color and Musicality by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES encompass the extensive work, the intense dedication and the innovative research and reflection of she in geometric art.
Each brushstroke of her has its mathematical reason and makes each line unique, of harmony in a lucid composition and combinatorial of color in turn incalculable, and Musicality, perhaps for the spectators of hers geometry works, is creativethat feeling of musicality. A rhythm of vitality, eurythmy of shapes and color, which makes it possible to glimpse the whole geometric universe in equilibrium created by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES in hers paintings of Continuous Space Path and digital diagrams printed on canvas Ariadne's thread -Musicality in which she shows hers perception of different cities, continents, countries ... - Sweden-Beijing-Africa- Madrid-Greece-New York -Mumbai Bombay-Europe-Tokyo- Paris-Brooklyn-Nepal-Berlin-Latin America-Universe- ...GEOMETRY, COLOR and MUSICALITY is an oxymoron of renewal in Geometric Art.
Text by Viviana Rodríguez Gimeno 2015
exhibition catalog Geometría, Color y Musicalidad
of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Municipal Exhibition Center of ELCHE 15may-06september 2015
LA MIRADA ACTUAL January 4, 2014
Iluminada García Torres investigates in her Digital Geometry, Mumbai Bombay. text by Julia Sáez-Angulo
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (ELCHE 1949) investigates in her Digital Geometry artworks that she denominate Mumbai Bombay, in wide view and reflection on Asia.
In fact all her work in geometric abstraction begins with the proposal that she formulated in the catalog of her exhibition Combinables in 1993, where is the origin and the mathematical reason that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has developed in the geometry digital works, Tokyo, Beijing and now Mumbai Bombay, in hers Asian contemplation. She declares that after the New York digital geometries, she became interested in Asia in concepts of musicality, color and though.
text by Julia Sáez-Angulo
International Association of Art Critics, AICA
ILUMINADA POR EL ARTE
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (ELCHE 1949), En 1967, Madrid, es alumna del profesor de Dibujo Cristóbal Toral, siendo también discípula, en dos etapas, 1965 y 1984, del pintor hiperrealista Antonio López García. Y aunque supiera asimilar la docencia de sus maestros, ha marcado un estilo perfectamente definido con unas etapas evolutivas que pudieran parecer drásticas pero están plenas de una coherencia absoluta.
Residente desde tiempo en Alicante, podemos contemplar ahora en el Castillo de Santa Bárbara, la excelente exposición retrospectiva de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, desde 1982 hasta 2009, y que permiten asimilar la madura fortaleza expresiva que emana de su obra. Los paisajes urbanos y la fruta del membrillo nos muestran sus comienzos como pintora realista, para posteriormente descubrir el año 1984, tiempo de seducción, en el Museo del Prado la escultura helenista de Ariadna dormida en Naxos que plasmará al óleo desde distintas perspectivas, y cuya armonía, según sus palabras, “ codifica un cosmos, geométrico y matemático ”.
La gran aportación innovadora de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES arribará en 1991. La abstracción geométrica había tenido su maestro en Eusebio Sempere pero ella, en el terreno del arte analítico y su nexo con el gesto, enlaza la geometría y la medida con el impacto directo de la pincelada, -afirmación de la energía en cada trazo- que rompe con la línea estricta y precisa.
Y comienza a trabajar en serigrafía, poseyendo dieciocho de las suyas, realizadas en 1996, la Biblioteca Nacional. Será esta técnica, tan utilizada en el pop-art y por los cinéticos, el primer paso de su interés por el arte digital. Tiene muy claro ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES que la investigación de las formas geométricas y del color, con las aplicaciones informáticas, no disminuye la capacidad creadora sino que aporta nuevas posibilidades y también lo que ella denomina -la democratización del arte- el acceso de las mayorías a una obra, con la copia por el autor mediante los nuevos medios tecnológicos, sin perder un ápice de calidad ni los colores originales. Aunque este concepto pudiera llamar a la controversia, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES piensa que es necesario un cambio de mentalidad, una nueva mirada al Arte Electrónico actual, pensar que los avances técnicos que permitieron reproducir una pieza musical en un disco o un texto literario en un libro, no menoscaba la calidad de los autores sino que han hecho posible, sin acudir a un concierto ni leer un manuscrito, que se conozca o adquiera.
El Hotel H. Amérigo de Alicante posee una colección cercana al centenar de obras de Arte Geométrico Digital realizadas por ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, una posibilidad de contemplar sugerentes geometrías impresas en lienzo, con innovadoras combinatorias. En 2003 tuve el inmenso honor de escribir con el título Píxeles la huella del trazo en el catálogo de la exposición que sobre esta colección se hizo y ahora me ratifico en los conceptos de admiración de “aquellas impresiones visuales que nos adentrarán en un mundo de armonías fusionadas con la luz mediterránea ”.
texto de Joaquín Santo Matas
Diario La Verdad Alicante 18-10-09
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES Retrospectiva 1982- 2009
exposición en el Castillo de Santa Bárbara Alicante
https://Retrospectiva-de-ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES/prospecto-exposicion-Castillo-Santa-Barbara-Alicante-2009
https://EL-HILO-de-ARIADNA-ARMONIA-by-ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES-geometriaDigital/exposicion-Alicante-2008
https://by ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES/Digital-El-Hilo-de-Ariadna-In-Progress-Utopía75AE
/Certamen-UMH-BERDROLA-2006
STRUCTURES OF HARMONY (2005)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche, Alicante, 1949) she in her recent work exhibit a long trajectory of Geometric Art with, The thread of Ariadna-combinatorial, where the results derived from one of the most important issues in history are reached of art: the search for a basic harmony and order that beats in human nature. Establishing order and proportion in art means giving an intellectual and conscious direction to a subconscious impulse.
Modern psychology defends the hypothesis that the search for order on which beauty is based is something inherent to our identity as rational beings, and in that situation our interpretation of nature is predominantly mathematical. In these circumstances, the new technologies are used by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES to make use of their lines and brushstrokes as the basic material of her artworks and as a point of reflection of it, using as a matter of creation the formal elements and conceptuals.
Einstein affirmed that there is no logical way to discover the elementary laws; according to him there is only the path of intuition. The perception of the order behind appearances, its musicality, is something that is intuited by the artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Consequently, her works could be conceived as structures of the harmony in mathematical lines. The paintings and digital geometry of the work of Iluminada García-Torres is founded on an irrefutable truth of numbers and proportions that seem to reveal in some way the pre-established harmony.
text Lino Cabezas Gelabert (2005) Professor at the University of Barcelona.
La Rella Magazine Nº 18.
Anuari de l'Institut d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix Vinalopó 2005 Elx. Elche
SOUNDS OF PAINTING (2004)
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES, (Elche, Alicante, 1949) she has made a decided commitment to Geometric Art, developing orthogonally organized shapes and colors. Following paths opened by the geometric Kandinsky of the German Bauhaus, author of POINT AND LINE ON THE PLANO, and Dutch Neoplasticism, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES understands hers painting and hers sculpture as a mathematical system of proportions and geometric shapes.
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES achieves to formulate, in 1991, a basic reticular module of squares, where she drew the points and lines. This module will be the beginning of future experimentation in Geometric Art.
A geometric and mathematical cosmos, that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES considers independent worlds, but participants in the totality. They are perfectly calculated according to systems of proportion in their measurements. These forms signify the concept of the full and empty. The relation between full spaces and empty spaces is dialectically dynamic, because it generates multiple variations, determined by the color, shape, number, and direction of the lines. We are, therefore, before an interactive space that generates an integrating harmony of all the geometric elements in the composition, with effects close to the Optical art.
The thread of Ariadne, is the generic name that has adopted to denominate to hers works, inspired in the marble sculpture of Ariadna of the Museum of the Prado, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
discovered in this marble (1987) an harmony of geometric and mathematical order that went to preside over your future work. The space research has been formally complicating his proposals with a multiplication of sequences of rhythmic sequences, parallel to the world of music, pictorial geometries that she calls Continuous Space Path. From this proposal hers work is incorporated into the new technologies applicable to the art of painting.
The recent works of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES offer us geometries of infinite development thanks to the combinatorial of color and the process of the image generated by computer where the brushstroke is now structured by the pixel (picture element), dot in a rectilinear grid of points to form a geometric digital image.
With this digital process of the image, she has made the geometries of the present exhibition Música y Arte II. They constitute the beginning of a new series whose dot of expansion is musicality.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has been able to see and work on the aesthetic aspects offered by the graphics of the musical notation. The pentagram or tetragram constitute the linear structure where the musical "signs" are deposited, she tries to evoke the true graphia, which allows it to develop formal investigations related to Optical art and suggest virtual movements.
Text by Laura Sanz García (2004) Carlos III University of Madrid
Pascual Patuel Chust University of Valencia
SOUNDS OF PAINTING Exhibition catalog Música y Arte II.
Palau de la Música of VALENCIA 2004
PIXELS (2003)
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (ELCHE 1949), she in this exhibition presents her work of Digital Geometric Art, El Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria, a research with new technological media. The result is innovative, rigorous and coherent that we can observe in the evolution of hers work, whose genesis is in the pictorial work of hers teacher Antonio López García and from which her assimilated the measure and direct-gesture.
In the observation of the sublime marble sculpture of Ariadna that she discovered in the Prado Museum (1984), ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES tries to armonize her creative Thread to get herself the labyrinth of her artistic capacity.
Geometry in the plane and in the space that in something would assimilate of the teachings that she received from the also Alicante artist, Eusebio Sempere.
The lines drawn, made in a dynamic way, of a single gesture, in relation of proportionality with space reticular, mathematics and geometry, time and light. And the origin of Trazado Espacial Continuo Continuous Spatial Drawings has been for more than a decade in the geometry of hers work Combinables.
That is why in the artworks of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES we contemplate geometries that can be multiplied infinitely thanks to the combinatorial of color and digital processes, which are possible by linking their Geometry research with the new technological advances of science computer.
That is why in the artworks of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES we contemplate geometries that can be multiplied infinitely thanks to the combinatorial of color and digital processes, which are possible by linking their Geometry research with the new technological advances of science computer.
She draws, from the point, original singular gestural lines in the reticular space, in rhythmic sequences, that in this work of Digital Geometric Art, the pixels constituting of the new structure of the line.
This exhibition, belonging to the hundred works of geometry (digital printing on canvas 90x180cm each) which constitute the Amerigo Collection, can be seen in Alicante at the Hotel of the same name, where the geometries designed by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES will show us a world of harmonies fused with the Mediterranean light, where the azure and marine blue, the earth and solar ocher, and the violet tones of an alborear of the horizon prevail, which is the line from which all forms emerge.
PÍXELES, La Huella del Trazo
Text by Joaquín Santo Matas - Director of the Alicante Institute of Culture Juan Gil-Albert. Catalog exhibition El Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de las Artes. Alicante 2003
Text by Joaquín Santo Matas - Director of the Alicante Institute of Culture Juan Gil-Albert. Catalog exhibition El Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de las Artes. Alicante 2003
GEOMETRIC AND EMOTIONAL POETRY (2002)
It is not easy to respond to the arithmetic and orthogonal processes, of the poetry and sensitivity in the compositional contents in the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE1949). She makes in Geometric Art an expressive formulation centered almost specifically on the research of spatial ordering through the serial multiplication of the line in progression. In the relation and the consecutive evolution with the only trace of a mediatic line in the space, or what is the same, through the drawing of a line, she manages to reach the metaphysical purpose of the creative eagerness.
The arithmetic and emotional poetry in the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has that consubstantial truth that responds to a pristine and essential fact endowed with a metaphysical transcendence capable of altering any philosophical conjecture. Art transcending through arithmetic formulas and rhythmic spatial sequences that she describes.
Iconography where the continuous module, the coherent mathematical variation dominates the visuality, demands, at least, a reflection on the mathematical painting and the balanced spatial orders. And this inevitably leads us to the stream of Stilj, Mondrian, Rietveld authors who understood that in geometry and spatial arrangement by means of balanced flat chromatic or compositional icons, rational orders could be established in the argumentation of their proposals.
Iconography where the continuous module, the coherent mathematical variation dominates the visuality, demands, at least, a reflection on the mathematical painting and the balanced spatial orders. And this inevitably leads us to the stream of Stilj, Mondrian, Rietveld authors who understood that in geometry and spatial arrangement by means of balanced flat chromatic or compositional icons, rational orders could be established in the argumentation of their proposals.
Processes in the elaboration of those gestural lines support of the works. A fact of transcendence if we understand theGeometric Art of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES from her creativity, with the congregation of all these expressive singularities that she has in geometric poetry.
Certainly the iconography transcribed in the paintings of the artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES may correspond to the genuine calligraphic material of the geometric repertoire of the square reticular and the music of arithmetic in their interactions.
Composition based on the repetitive modular beauty of the line and the quadrangular geometric grid, capable of claiming expansion, limitlessness and affirmation once the gestures drawn from the mathematical variable are the agents of the resulting harmonies, We have understand a very special expressiveness in the works of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES that she gives in the accuracy of the brushstroke in the discursive process of a meditative calligraphic order.
Composition based on the repetitive modular beauty of the line and the quadrangular geometric grid, capable of claiming expansion, limitlessness and affirmation once the gestures drawn from the mathematical variable are the agents of the resulting harmonies, We have understand a very special expressiveness in the works of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES that she gives in the accuracy of the brushstroke in the discursive process of a meditative calligraphic order.
A pristine pictorial expression, based on the measure, the gesture the compositional rhythms, the formal transition, the chromatic vibration, the metaphysical transcendence. The geometry and arithmetic as a determining reason.
GEOMETRIC AND EMOTIONAL POETRY
text by José Manuel Alvarez Enjuto,2002
Exhibition catalog of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
THE THREAD OF ARIADNA 1991-2002
30/04 - 28/05, 2002, Municipal Exhibition Lonja del Pescado. Alicante
30/04 - 28/05, 2002, Municipal Exhibition Lonja del Pescado. Alicante
text Simón Marchán Fiz
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (EICHE 1949), she unravels Ariadne's Thread through an optical combinatorial impregnated by cybernetic randomness, a code expressed in lines that contrast with the unchanging presence of squares as zero grade and reference to the essentials, a great lyricism, color vibrations and harmony of balance complement each other.
text Simón Marchán Fiz(2001), Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Faculty of Philosophy UNED Madrid.
The expansion of painting in the cold auras text Catalog Exhibition XVII Edition Painting Prize L'OREAL. Conde Duque Cultural Center. Madrid 2001
Entre el uno, el dos y el tres (2001)
... are her drawn lines in which ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (ELCHE 1949) meditates the rhythms that emerge in the trajectory of its layout in relation of proportionality with the space of the square modules in hers works of Geometric Art. Modules that according to her, contain laws of harmony. It could be a rational, thoughtful composition, and in fact it is in principle. But observing each line it is evident that they do not respond to a unifying system. On the contrary, they confirm: the absolute difference of each one of the lines with the rest of those that are placed in the picture. With all the lines of the paintings that make up the series. Of all the series of lines started at the beginning of the 90s. Of all the painted lines of the world.
It is evident, albeit in a subtle way, the instant of its production; a time of the painting that purport to drag with him the time of perception. The transmission of emotions.
In the lines of the modules arranged tidily in the paintings made by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, the different degrees of emotion, tension, tranquility, enthusiasm, distancing... from the moment of painting are glimpsed. Already raised it, albeit in an ironic way, Lichtenstein when he designed his large-format brushstroke with bendéi points. And it is the praise of that brushstroke, in which with hers lines insists ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Sometimes at great brushstrokes, anothers as in a mantra. In numerous and small lines. With the rhetoric of repetition. But also more surprising.
A year ago in a ceramic workshop organized by the CAPA Foundation, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, experiments in the three dimensions, she presented some first investigations of the limits, which she had already done in sculpture. What happens in the limits? From a wave to an angle, for example. Fundamental considerations in Geometric Art.Numbers are there to infinity. But, if you want to understand it, you need to analyze the infinite relation between 1, 2 and 3.
text catalog Isabel Tejeda Martín 2001
Exhibition, trazado espacial continuo-hilo de ariadna, pintura 2001
combinables-palabras geométricas, cerámica 2001 by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
12may-20june 2001, Casa de Cultura El Campello (Alicante)
GASWORKS STUDIOS, LONDON
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (Spain)
1 December 1998 - 1 March 1999
This is the first time you will see the work of the visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES in the United Kingdom. During her residency at Gasworks, she has produced new works with the referent of the marble sculpture Ariadne at the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, I discovered that the harmony she evoked was fitted perfectly a geometric and mathematical pattern.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES seeks to achieve harmony through the expression of the moment, constituted by line-space-time within proportional relation with the square reticle structures. The singularity of each line is a step towards Light.
published by Alessio Antoniolli 1999 GASWORKS STUDIOS, LONDON
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015
GEOMETRIAS (1996)
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (1949 Elche, Alicante), she is, painter. And of -her work and the way of undertaking this- we could say that it is a rationalization, sensitivity and expression in the Geometric Art. To realized hers work ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES establishes a previous Geometric order, very concrete and precise, -square matrix-, divided into other twenty-five exact and equal, as a grid, defined by lines or points; which in turn can be subdivided.
Mathematical disposition that will direct the initiation and realization of hers work. The beginning of the –pictorial action- becomes an event, an extraordinary and unique fact that modifies the established and conditions the development of the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. And the painting is full of infinite possibilities -lines expressed with the law of verticality and horizontality and in proportionality with the dimensions of the squares. For example, the painting can only be the structure, as a regularized surface; or be arranged in sections; or -the square matrix- contain squares of different dimensions, color, location and texture; or that on a color with different gradations juxtapose other forms of color and establish new interactions, etc.
Hers brushstrokes, of the painter ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, are lines of color with dimensions in proportion to the surfaces of the squares, in a single gesture -meditated- each one of the brush strokes made, an echo of herself with its emotional poetic . And also an event, which determines the quality of the successive brushstroke.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES necessarily draws from the sensitivity, which requires a preparation, tense attitude and meditative attention in the realization of the linear brushstrokes. The picture as she is painting it changes, and she, the painter, is there to decide the next action pictorial.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, does not consider the edges as the end of the work, allowing it to continue. Fortunately, she conceives each painting as a possible part of a more complex whole; and in consequence, the linear edge is a provisional limit. Because the basic structure is, the square, studied in the spatial modulation that is produced in its subdivision or the sum of geometric squares -as she formulates it in her theoretical reflections (1991)-, and to constitute a theoretically infinite work. That requires the systematic application of the concept so that each work of Geometric Art maintains its potential development. An undoubted risk, although full of interest, that would give the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES an innovative dimension.
(1996)Text by Segundo G. Manzanet, Director Museum Asegurada, MACA.
Exhibition Catalog GEOMETRIAS / ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Institute of Culture Juan Gil-Albert, University of Alicante 1996, MUA. Exhibition Alicante, November 6-26, 1996 • Casa de Cultura de Villena, January 24-February 16, 1997.
COMBINABLES
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (ELCHE 1949). She remained pensive observing the power and subtlety of a sculpture that is in the Rotunda of the Hall of the Muses of the Prado Museum. It was the marble sculpture of Ariadna, the sculpture that the painter Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) brought from Rome to King Felipe IV and that Velázquez himself would paint it in Rome in the canvas of 44x38 cm, View of the garden of the Villa Medicis-Noon.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, at the Museo del Prado interpreted this marble sculpture of Ariadna in two paintings from 1986-88, what is really important is that this marble sculpture would give reasons to ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES for his future work geometric.
Now he presents hers recent works of Geometric Art in the Exhibition Hall CAM of Alicante, which has taken the scoop of her proposal, with the title of COMBINABLES, Continuous Space Path, works that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, has also been grouped in three research notebooks, laborious, concrete, mathematical and geometric arrangement, the point, the lines, the square, color ... The process surprised the author and impelled her as in a story by Jorge Luis Borges, in the boundless infinity of geometry and color.
She painted labyrinths of cubic and cylindrical forms on the surface of some tables, compositions of an approach to the work of Morandi, which later she would represent with architectural influence in large-format paintings. This theme preludes the geometry that would intensively come later in the artistic creativity of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. In the sculpture COMBINABLES mixes cubes and cylinders of steel in balanced composition. Space, point, lines, numbers, structures, brushstrokes, variants, layout, trajectory, technology, painting ..., all are words and concepts that the artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has written in the notebooks and on the canvas poetic brushstrokes. Art and theoretical formulation made at the same time.
COMBINABLES text by J. Antonio Lisbona (1993)
Espiral de las Artes num.5-6 September / October 1993
FASCINACION POR EL ESPACIO
The CAM of Alicante has offered in its exhibition hall on Oscar Esplá Avenue 37, an exhibition of GEOMETRIC ART by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (ELCHE 1949) which since the mid 60s has studied and lives in Madrid.
She offers us paintings from her first realistic period of metaphysical influence. And paintings and a sculpture of her new stage of geometric art that presents precisely in Alicante.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES is fascinated by space, and she hypothesizes with two basic elements in her work, the square and the circle, the cube and the cylinder. In the previous, realistic paintings, we notice, however, certain evolution towards the geometric shape and the space that makes us to reflect on solitude, on silence, on our own soul: and the wonderful painting that she made (1987) of the marble sculpture of Ariadne, looking towards the infinite.
From this sculpture ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, realized her new works in geometric art, to paintings constructed with lines and dots, with rectangles that have been painted in a single stroke, and, thus, none is the same, they are all different. Identity, repetition and diversity at the same time. Continuing with the squares, the cubic and cylindrical structure, with the mathematical accuracy of the measurements, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, realizes the projects for hers sculptural works. But in addition to creating painting and sculpture, she composes with the words.
And, most importantly, the integral proposal in the Geometric Art by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES for the realization of her works, emerges from the same mathematical concept that she has transcribed in the excellent catalog of the exhibition.
FASCINATION FOR SPACE
text by María Carmen Africa Vidal Claramonte (1993)
Diario Información. Alicante 10-june-1993
The individual Painting of Iluminada García-Torres
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (Elche 1949), she makes an exhibition at the Galería Albatros in Madrid. Some of hers works have as motif the marble sculpture of Ariadne (intangible Thread). "I went to the Prado Museum thinking about an image that motivates my mind and I found this sculpture. There I painted the sculpture in a canvas facing it and then en another canvas as if the sculpture were looking at infinity... and I know I will return to interpret this Ariadne again, because I find it impossible to forget her perfection, her harmony, her mathematical control".
The paintings of the sculpture of Ariadne she made from an interpretation, with the sea and a diluted landscape. "I was born near the sea and, although at the age of sixteen, I came to Madrid to study Fine Arts, I always have his presence close by, I know it because of the need to include a horizon line, a reference to space in each painting".
The style of her painting is more evident in the works in which she, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES with the idea and the minimum elements of a composition, it drifts towards architectural formulas. Morandi, the metaphysical painting of Giorgio de Chirico and quattrocentistas are not far from her painting. With a few cylindrical bars and a box on a table she paints geometries sharp, spatiality paintings. Seen from another perspective, the same elements resemble a labyrinth, with a geometrical idea that constantly evokes her painting, "an object is different according to how we see it, the proximity of another object modifies it in our perception". How not to understand that the painting of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES is individual?.
Text by Miguel Fernández-Cid
Diario 16. Madrid 5- december-1990
... It is the Ariadne sculpture of the Museo del Prado, the marble sculpture that Velázquez brought from Rome and that he painted in his magnificent paintings of "Villa Médicis", the one that has inspired to ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES(Elche1949) to draw Labyrinths in the Geometric Art.
She recovers in her paintings a metaphysics of space and form; of the transit with light and thought.
It can be done to transcend the simplest image if the brushstroke and the mind are able to raise it to the category level.
This is what happens with hers pictorial compositions of cylindrical and cubic forms of reflecting light. They silence or reveal codes.
The immense risk of starting over the waves
Text catalog Rosa Martínez de Lahidalga (1990)
Exhibition paintings by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
Galería Albatros. Madrid 1990
https://Pinturas-Geometrias-et-escultura-marmol-ARIADNE-MUSEO-del-PRADO/by-ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES-exposicion-GaleriaAlbatros-Madrid 1990
