BISEL GALLERY. Salvador Torres 'ESSAYS'.
ESSAYS
In this series of works, attempts, whether social or personal, are presented as an aesthetic motif; a way of settling into chance as a way of understanding our times. If aesthetics defends the pursuit of human happiness and promises us reconciliation as a foretaste of a future society, failure is not presented here as something yet to come, but rather in the immutable permanence of what surrounds us, in the apparent impotence of thought.
The characters that inhabit these works contemplate an atypical version of the city of Cartagena, like a succession of visions accumulated in the space of the canvas, as if they were puzzles, travel notes, scattered records of experiences, intimate and familiar references.
Despite the apparent calm of the compositions, the goal remains to continually make us doubt the false reality. A mental exercise in the service of painting.
This is an analysis of what could have existed and what no longer exists, in an attempt to overcome the barrier of time; when I consider that idealized memento mori, I need to materialize it in images as much as possible. In these works, anonymous figures coexist with buildings that never existed, and with the lighthouses at the mouth of Cartagena as a backdrop for a familiar setting.
Possible scenes that never happened in an indeterminate time. However, this isn't about nostalgia; it's about loyalty to what was rescued.
Salvador Torres.