NEW YORK, NY.- The Joaquin Torres Garcia - One Man Show exhibition is dedicated to the oeuvre of the Uruguayan Modern Master and his significant contribution to modern and contemporary art.

Joaquin Torres Garcia is considered one of the most important and influential artistic personalities of the twentieth-century. His early works transited for a period of experimentation and re-interpretations inspired by the aesthetical of the European avant-garde movements to culminate in his greatest contribution to modern art, the creation of the Universal Constructivism.

The Joaquin Torres Garcia - One Man Show exhibition curated by Gary Nader spans a chronological diverse array of carefully selected Torres Garcia’s paintings, highlighting the moment when the artist established his iconic constructivist style and finishes the manuscript of “Arte Constructivo” published in 1935 to his final outstanding works from the 1940s painted in Montevideo, Uruguay.

While living in Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres Garcia defined his own theory or art founding the Association of Constructivism Artists and published the journal Circulo y cuadrado, which introduced the avant-garde movements of Cubism, Neoplasticism, and Constructivism to South American artists. His aim was to establish a genuine Latin American Art fulfilled with national history and significance.

The exhibition features several of Torres Garcia’s iconic works where plastic and nature elements are represented in complete harmony among the reference to signs from pre-Hispanic cultures from South America. The association of geometric symbols or what the artist called “spiritual geometry” from different contexts makes his visual language transcendental and served as an inspiration for artists from all generations to explore their ideas and aesthetic interests.

Joaquin Torres Garcia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 28, 1874.

At the age of 17, Torres Garcia emigrated to Mataró, Spain where he began to attend a local academy and drawing classes at an Arts and Trades school. In 1892, he enrolled in the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barcelona. In 1893, Torres García matriculated in the Cercle Artístic de Sant Luc, Barcelona.

In 1920, he left Europe for New York City, where he met such important artists as Joseph Stella, David Karfunkle and Marcel Duchamp, among others, and his work appeared in the Society of Independent Artists. In 1922, he returned to Europe, where he discovered the work of Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. In 1934, Torres Garcia returned to Montevideo determined to introduce Modernist and Constructivist aesthetics to Uruguayan artists, founding “ La escuela del Sur”. In 1943 he established the Taller Torres-García, a school in which students learned the principles of Constructivist art, influencing the direction of art particularly in Uruguay and Argentina for a generation after Torres-García’s death.

The work of Joaquin Torres Garcia has been showed in several shows at Gary Nader gallery, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, including the group exhibitions: Latin American Masters, Latin American Art Modern Masters and Contemporary, Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art, among others.

Joaquin Torres Garcia died in Montevideo, Uruguay on August 8, 1949.