Baltazar Torres - Painting and Compositions

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Artist:BALTAZAR TORRES
Title:the world belongs to me (Flag)
Year:2005
Tech:plomb painted
Size:28x50 cm



Artist:BALTAZAR TORRES
Title: Prozac
Year: 2004
Tech: Wood, plastic and plomb



Artist:BALTAZAR TORRES
Title: Cuevas Urbanas, nuevas cartografias
Year:2003
Tech: Brick, wood and PVC



Colmena / Amor
(“love” from the series “beehive”)
2004
wood, PVC, aluminium, cables, steel, tin, acrylic, oil
61 x 80 x 21 cm

The works of Baltazar Torres open up critical, often political discourses in intently designed spaces. By radically reducing the scale of his figures and settings, he manages to show whole worlds, and allows the spectator to take up a new perspective. Often employing irony to make his point, he creates small, even cute-looking architectures and rooms, equipped with simplified symbols, and he works with easily recognizable, highly connoted images like tanks, maps, or garbage bags. But while his confrontations or combinations may at first seem obvious, they give rise to critical questioning.

Contentwise, Torres is clearly positioned in the present. His works investigate the way in which humans deal with their environment, and explore processes of mapping and re-mapping, examining the relevance of geography and cartography to establishing a nation. He makes the spectator look critically into the relationship of power and subjugation, see individual behaviour in the context of universal calamities and perceive the world in all its large - or small - size. [source]