First Major U.S. Exhibition in Nearly 40 Years to Focus Exclusively on Joaquín Torres-García , ArtDaily.org

Joaquín Torres-García, Estructura con varilla blanca y círculo rojo (Structure with Superimposed) White Strip and Red Circle), 1935. Oil and nails on wood. Dimensions cm 39.5 x 9.8 x 6.5 cm. MACBA Collection. Fundació Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. (web image)
HOUSTON, TX.- Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949) is revered today as one of the most influential artists and theorists of the early twentieth century to have emerged from Latin America. A charismatic figure in the international art world, he exhibited with the most famous artists of his time, including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Jacques Lipchitz, and Marcel Duchamp. Organized by The Menil Collection in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood will offer to North American audiences for the first time an exploration of the artist’s wooden constructions known as maderas.

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