Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Opens Exhibition Dedicated to the Work of Joaquin Torres-García

BARCELONA.- Torres-García. Crossroads brings together more than 80 works, mainly drawings, many of them unpublished, from the collection of Alejandra, Aurelio and Claudio Torres, as well as paintings and wooden constructions. The show explores the Uruguayan-Catalan artist’s creative process, from his beginnings in Modernisme and his Noucentista period to his recognition as one of the pioneers of avant-garde art. The exhibition looks at the essential features of Joaquin Torres-García’s career as an artist, which takes in the first half of the 20th century. Torres-García (Montevideo, 1874-1949), who trained in Barcelona during the Modernista period, was a key figure in the Noucentista movement. After leaving Catalonia in 1920, he set out along a path that was to lead him to become one of the pioneers of geometric abstraction, along with artists like Mondrian, Van Doesburg and Hélion. The aim of this

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