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Gerard Torres Sanmartí: Rosetta

Mixed media on framing chrome canvas. 53x53 cm 2013

This work is part of a series of paintings called Explorations, which is inspired by the unknown nature of space exploration, this adventure that also has its similarities with artistic exploration, both conceptually and technically.

Gerard wrote: “When I learned that there was a space mission with the name Rosetta, I wanted to incorporate it into the project. I was surprised that the name of the mission had the same name as the stone of Rosette, this stone from the time of the Egyptians that contained so much information. All of this inspired me to make the Rosetta satellite with the maximum amount of color chromatic possible as a reference of the knowledge that hosted the mission or was to discover, as was the new feat that ended up doing.”

Left: Galileo (Spray on framing tablex; 53x64 cm); right: Rosetta (Mixed media on framing chrome canvas; 53x53 cm).

From left to right: Voyager I (Spray on canvas; 65x81,50 cm); Cassini (Spray on canvas; 65,50x81 cm); Galileo (Spray on framing tablex; 53x64 cm); right: Rosetta (Mixed media on framing chrome canvas; 53x53 cm).

About the Explorations series, Gerard wrote:

“The universe is an immense and unknown place in which human beings still remain. He does not know most of the observable and what may happen. It happens then an ideal place to get carried away by the imagination and be able to do it visible the invisible. Nowadays, we use artificial satellites to power see what hides this outer world, trying to decipher what we are surrounds and creating hypotheses that give explanation to the incognito. This is the premise that I surround myself to develop the set of works that make up the collection titled Explorations.

A work of imagination of phenomena and concepts that can go to the universe together with artificial satellites as drivers of the series of works. The present corpus has been developed throughout the year 2012-2013 where the multitude of techniques and formats make up a singular work. Explorations not only entails a perquisition at the plastic and conceptual level but it also does so with an inquiry into the plastic techniques applied to the work of art. We can find works on canvas, canvas, with paint to oil, plastic paint, markers or spray. I work with them Impressions that each technique and material contribute in the representation conceptual of the expressed.

The expository idea that I put forward is to show the works breaking classical visual horizontality because the universe, as the author says, can not be understood as a place with a pre-established horizon, it is a space that the observer is completely surrounded.”

From left to right, hanging on the wall: Rosetta (Mixed media on framing chrome canvas; 53x53 cm); Mars Global Surveyor (Mixed media on framing tablex; 53x64 cm); Shenzou (Spray on framing tablex; 53x64 cm).

From left to right: Hubble (Spray on canvas; 65x81 cm); Suomi (Mixed media on canvas; 50x61 cm); a poster of the exhibition.

This series of painting was first presented as a solo exhibition, Explorations, in October–November 2013 at Acadèmia de Belles Arts Fundació Privada in Sabadell, Barcelona. A later exhibition, called Explorations II, took place in March–April 2015 at the technology and innovation park ESADE-Creapolis in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona.

Photographs courtesy of the artist.

Gerard Torres Sanmartí is an artist based in Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain). He holds a degree in Fine Arts (2013) and a Master's in Artistic Production and Research (2016) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. During his master's degree, he attended the workshop "Bruxism" with artist Fernando Prats and did an internship at the Tecla Sala Art Center, Barcelona.

In 2016 he obtained a residence at the Estruch Factory of Creation of the Live Arts in Sabadell, and later exhibited the works at the Sabadell Museum of Art. In 2017, he took part in the exhibition “Afectes; l'arxiu obviat del procès”, curated by Gorka Plans in the gallery Abbé-Pierre de Sabadell. In 2012, he won the 1st prize in the Fanzines category at the 9th Literary Prize of Sant Jordi at the Biblioteca de l'Ametlla del Vallès. He was a finalist at the Güell Foundation painting prize of the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona (2015), in the visual arts prize of the Arranz-Bravo Foundation (2016) and in the “SETBA Jove 2017″ of the SETBA Foundation of Barcelona (2017). He was also selected by the Jeunne Creation Europénne (JCE) to participate in the Biennale JCE exhibition in Montrouge, Paris (2017).

He currently manages and coordinates the Academy of Fine Arts in Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain) and hosts the “El Cub Blanc” (The White Cube) radio show dedicated to the dissemination of plastic arts at Radio Sabadell 94.6 fm. More info at: www.gerardtorres.com