| RUBEN TORRES LLORCA |
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, Rubén Torres Llorca earned degrees from the Escuela de Artes Plasticas de San Alejandro and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Before moving to Miami in 1993, his works were included in three Havana Biennials; the XII Drawing Biennial at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and in the Sao Paolo Biennial in 1989. Since then, Torres Llorca has continued to exhibit his work worldwide, with solo shows at The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami; the Museo del Barrio, New York; and the Miami Art Museum, among other venues. Torres Llorca’s work is represented in many major museum collections, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; the Miami Art Museum; and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Michoacan, Mexico.
A conceptual artist with superb craftsmanship, Torres Llorca is best known for his large wall installations of paintings and 3-dimensional objects arranged in grid-like patterns. Often interspersed with words or phrases which allude to everyday life, politics, or culture, his imagery references the Great American lifestyle dream of the post-World War II era, with its picket fences, rocking chairs, blackboards, tricycles, and smiling housewives wearing aprons and high heels. While the juxtapositions of texts and images provide some clues as to his intended meaning, Torres Llorca prefers that the viewers come to their own conclusions as they contemplate his singular visual language.
The three installations, No Man is an Island, Make Me a Mask, and No Man is an Island—Every Woman is a Lighthouse, were created by Torres Llorca for the walls of three adjacent conference rooms in the Miami offices of Ferrell Law, after he attended a number of meetings at the firm.
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