Painter and sculptor
Artistic
process
Carmen
…de la Torre… was born in Spain, more precisely in the province
of Jaén in Andalusia. She has now been living in Quebec for ten
years.
She
has a master's degree in painting and another master's degree in sculpting
from the University of Seville. Her career spans more than three decades
and her vast and varied production is characterized by an interdisciplinary
practice as well as by versatility. Her artistic motto is ''Pour le
fond des formes et pour les formes du fond ''. This motto is a call
for Art where the Message counts, and the Form counts equally.
At
first, you are disoriented. Her works question "the onlooker",
exploring the limits between painting and sculpture.
She disturbs and often provokes by the techniques she uses, by her works that deal with our civilization's myths, by the violence that is present, by the suffering that accompanies it, and above all by the aestheticism and the virtuosity that emanate from her works.
Every
picture is born from a perilous descent. Images extracted from the tenacious
and voracious night that surrounds us. The painter rescues the images,
each one more or less drowned at the core of the being.
The painter's sensitivity, as a buoy rescuing at each instant a poem that was about to perish irremediably.
Roland Giguère in Forêt vierge folle
(Édition de l'Hexagone, 1988)
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS IN QUEBEC
PERMANENT
EXHIBITION SINCE FEBRUARY 2007 :
Carmen de la Torre's Gallery-Workshop, Québec.
http://carmendelatorre.com/
POUR
LE PLAISIR DES YEUX :
Lunetterie New Look, March to September 2001.
PÉCHÉ
MIGNON : Bar Le Sacrilège, December 2000 and January 2001.
POUR
LES ENFANTS :
École Saint-Jean Baptiste, November 2000 to June 2002.
MÉMOIRE
DU TEMPS : Restaurant L'impasse des 2 anges, September 2000.
MYTHES
ET BOULES À MITES :
Exhibition presented simultaneously in the Librairie du Faubourg and
the Galerie-Boutique Lobo Lavida, July to September 2000.
LES
DRAGONS SANS DONJON :
Galerie de la Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval, March
2000.
DERNIÈRE
VAGUE... 99 :
Restaurant Le Poisson d'avril, Vieux-Port de Québec, December
1999 to April 2000.
ENTRE
DEUX MERS :
Sandwicherie Le Titanic, Vieux-Québec, September to December
1999.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS IN QUEBEC
QUÉBEC
ET SES ENVIRONS : Galerie du pavillon
Alphonse-Desjardins. Association des diplômés de l'Université
Laval, April - May 2009.
LES
ATELIERS OUVERTS S'EXPOSENT :
Galerie Magella-Paradis, Charlesbourg, October 2008.
VOIES
PARALLÈLES : Salle Multi, Complexe Méduse, Québec,
October 2008.
RENCONTRE
DES ARTS :
Trait-Carré de Charlesbourg, from August 29th to September 1st
2008.
LES
ENFANTS SOLDATS :
Bibliothèque Charles-H.-Blais, Sillery, from April 25th to May
27th 2007.
LES
ATELIERS OUVERTS : Exhibition in Bibliothèque Gabrielle Roy
and Ateliers Ouverts, October 2006.
MANIFESTIF
III :
Palais des Arts, Québec, May 10th and 11th 2003.
MANIFESTIF
II :
Atelier de Guy Paquette, Baie St-Paul, November 23rd and 24th 2002.
COLLECTIVE
EXHIBITION :
Galerie Rouge, September 2002.
General Information
Address
2123,
boul. Benoît-XV, Québec, (Québec)
G1L 2Z8, Canada
Electronic mail : artiste@carmendelatorre.com
Agent, André Legault : andrelegault2@hotmail.com
Visit of the Gallery-Workshop : (418) 525-6309
Next
Events
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make an appointment
(418)
525-6309