Adriana Torres (Sevilla, 1968)
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Seville in the specialty of painting and has taken postgraduate courses at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London. She has also worked as a painting teacher for more than 10 years and exhibited in Barcelona, Hohenems (Austria), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Madrid, Malaga, Seville, Washington (USA) and Zaragoza among others cities.
Her work has been exhibited in museums such as the CAC Málaga, the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art in Seville or the National Museum of Catholic Art in Washington and in art fairs such as ARCO or Art Sevilla.
Silence as the theme of her doctoral thesis marked, not only her artistic career, it was also the beginning of several individual exhibitions characterized by a great influence of the spiritual and a permanent social commitment.
Although her beginnings are linked almost exclusively to painting, her subsequent conceptual evolution has led her to work indiscriminately with drawing, sculpture and installation. Her work is also supported by the use of other techniques such as photography, object, collage or sound and materials as different as hair, water, resins, plaster and objects, especially for clinical use such as wheelchairs, sheets, pillows or serum drippers.
In her conceptual, aesthetic and emotional discourse the series and many other works interspersed among them have taken place, reflecting on her thoughts and concerns, drawing as a whole a universe of planets and stars in whose territories the artist reflects on her inner world. In Beyond are the angels who occupy the canvas. Angels that protect and care. Angels who watch and save. Angels that calm an existence of shock. The Silence and the flowers of silence are inhabited by white and solitary beings who discover introspection, thought and meditation. Loneliness is not only a consequence, it can also be a decision. Funda mental, Funda-mental is a set of works that represent hugs that, in turn, represent love. Nothing disturbs you (...) nothing is missing, poem of Santa Teresa, speaks of the importance of the main thing. Of the vain and the ephemeral in relation to God, if you have love nothing else matters. In those vacuous values alluded to in The Sound of Silence, certain works represent idolized aspects such as telebasura where millions of people lose the sense of authentic value. And finally who said that all is lost, a verse of the song I come to offer my heart of Fito Páez, is a star of hope, of light, of confidence in the reunion. It is the place where love opens doors, where the dream fills hearts with the future. In this universe there are other smaller satellites that fill the interstellar spaces like imaginary Journeys and the tears of María Magdalena that complete the values that the artist demands, not only for her, but as a scream that more than cry is cry, a message to the world .
Expositions
Individual
2014
“¿QUIÉN DIJO QUE TODO ESTÁ PERDIDO?”
La casa del arco, Vejer, Cádiz
2009
PSYCO. Permanent Exposicion.
Sevilla
2003
“FUNDA-MENTAL, FUNDAMENTAL”
Cavecanem, Sevilla
2000
“SILENCE”
Instituto Cervantes, Londres, UK
1999
“MÁS ALLÁ”
Cai Barbasán, Zaragoza
1999
“MÁS ALLÁ”
Cavecanem, Sevilla
1998
“S/T”
Galería Aryú, Zarauz, Guipúzcoa
Colective
2017
“Happy New Art”
Diciembre 2017
Galeria Weber Lutgen (Sevilla)
“SOLIDOWN”
Octubre 2017
Galeria El Butrón (Sevilla)
“Gruppe fúr Kunst und Kultur.”
Junio 2017
Palast Hohenems, Austria
X Aniversario
Junio 2017
Galeria Weber Lutgen, Sevilla
Arte comestible
Mayo 2017
Galeria Weber Lutgen, Sevilla
“El legado de Murillo”
Mayo 2017
Lovingart. Parlamento de Andalucía, Sevilla
Pasiones
Abril 2017
Sala Ateneo. Camas, Sevilla
“Frontera sensible”
Marzo 2017
Mad Antequera. Museo de Arte de la Diputacion de Málaga. Málaga
2016
Artistas contra el hambre.
Octubre 2016
Sala Atín Aya, Sevilla
Fashionart.
Septiembre 2016
Museo paraguayo de arte contemporáneo, Paraguay
“Solidown”
Junio 2016
Galeria el Butrón, Sevilla
2015
“NEIGHBOURS III”
Noviembre 2015
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga. Málaga.
Artsevilla. Feria de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla
Octubre 2015
(La Casa del Arco), Sevilla
2014
MARÍAS
FUNDECA (Fundación de Cultura Andaluza), Sevilla
PLATO DEL DÍA
Red House, Sevilla
ART SALE
Diez y medio, Madrid
EXPOSICIÓN DE PINTURA
La Revuelta, Sevilla
2013
FASHION ART
Amsterdam, Paises Bajos
”SERE TU VOZ, ERES MI LUZ”
Fundación Madariaga, Sevilla
COMPACT ART
Galeria Félix Gómez, Sevilla
2012
“MÁS ALLÁ”
Fundacion Pons. Madrid
“ARTE Y FE”
Lisboa, Portugal
2011
“20 años 20 artistas”
Real club de golf, Sevilla
2010
“EL SUEÑO DEL LÍMITE”
Galeria de El postigo , Sevilla
2009
National Museum of Catholic Art
Washington, U.S.A
2008
“50 AÑOS CONTRA EL CÁNCER”
Museo de carruajes , Sevilla
2006
“VOYEUR”
Galería Cavecanem. Exposex, Madrid
2005
“TODOS CONTRA EL CÁNCER”
Museo de Carruajes, Sevilla
2003
ARTE ACTUAL
Galeria Cavecanem, Sevilla
“PINTORES CONTRA EL CÁNCER”
Museo de Carruajes, Sevilla
2002
Galeria Cavecanem
ARCO, Madrid
2001
“DEVOTIONAL ART”
St James Church, Londres
2000
“AFFORDABLE ART FAIR”
Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Londres
“HOTEL Y ARTE”
Feria de Arte Contemporáneo
Galería Cavecanem, Sevilla
“PINTURAS”
Museo de Carruajes, Sevilla
“SILENCE”
Instalación en B. Campos, Córdoba
Galería Cavecanem ARCO
Madrid
II Bienal Artes Plásticas Rafael Botí
Excma. Diput Córdoba, Córdoba
1999
“Galería Cavecanem”
ARCO, Madrid
““50% ÁNGEL 50% DIABLO””
Galería Cavecanem, Sevilla
“HOTEL Y ARTE”
Feria de Arte Contemporáneo
Galería Cavecanem, Sevilla
“DIBUJO CONTEMPORÁNEO”
CAAC (Taller Yamandú Canosa), Sevilla
“NEW ART”
Feria de Arte Contemporáneo
Galería Cavecanem, Barcelona
“COMPACT ART”
Galería Rose Selavy, Barcelona
1993
“Bienal de Maastricht”
Maastricht, Paises Bajos
Obras en colecciones
Colección Alicia Koplowitz.
Colección Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Sevilla.
Colección CAC Málaga.
Colección Carda Diéguez.
Colección Valentín Madariaga.
Colección Diego del Alcázar.
National museum of catholic Art of Washington