The works of Rigoberto Torres: [exhibition] February 7-May 3, 1995, Lehman College Art Gallery - Softcover

Torres, Rigoberto ; Susan Hoeltzel

9781884352010: The works of Rigoberto Torres: [exhibition] February 7-May 3, 1995, Lehman College Art Gallery

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ISBN 10: 1884352014 ISBN 13: 9781884352010

Publisher: Gallery, 1995

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The Works of Rigoberto Torres provides the first mid-career examination of an artist whose work has drawn its inspiration from the Bronx community. Torres’ work, which has been seen throughout the world, is rooted in a celebration of daily life in the South Bronx neighborhood where he grew up. His plaster and fiberglass life-casts, which have been described as humanistic naturalism, provide affirming studies of real people — family, friends, and strangers he has met at public castings. The vividly colored figures seem as much about painting as about sculpture. Four large scale public murals, produced in collaboration with John Ahearn, have been part of the Bronx landscape for many years. The exhibition provides the first opportunity to examine the life-size figurative sculptures of Rigoberto Torres as a body of work, from 1979 to the present, including rarely exhibited relief paintings and sculptures in wood. The exhibition also includes new work, the first to be completed following a year of absence due to serious injury. Torres has been creating work of his own from the very beginning of his relationship with Ahearn — starting in 1978 shortly after the eighteen year old Torres was encouraged by his cousin to drop by Fashion Moda, a new founded gallery in the South Bronx where Ahearn was making plaster body casts of people from the neighborhood. Torres became one of Ahearn’s subject and was cast. Torres’ first works created at this time, were exhibited at Fashion Moda along with Ahearn’s work in 1979 under the exhibition title, South Hall of Fame. Ahearn and Torres continue to work together, assisting each other with casting.

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