Polyphony - Carlos Torres Barragán
By Ruben Cham - July 2006 - Leer en Español
After emerging through diverse productive evolutions, from the landscape, the figure and the watercolor of his previous epoques, the work of Carlos Torres Barragán has found, in the lyric abstraction, the style that greater freedom and possibilities offers to his creative will. A period marked by the technical experimentation, in  particular, the use of oil and ink on acetate, in order to give the impression of a transparent surface. Under the influence of Kandinsky and Klee and according to the normative bases of the German Bauhaus during its first age (1919-1923), the author sustains the compositive structure of his paintings by means of the graphical construction of a grid, or reticule, that governs the organization of small independent fields that, as a whole, they conform a chromatic unit in whose networks it rests the rhythm and the poetry.
The rhythmic and consonant disposition of his outline corresponds, in some way, to the writing of a musical piece articulated by images; to one multicolor polyphony that alludes to the Mexican popular art and, specifically, to the huichol culture, as far as the chromatic values and the representation of masks, traditional personages and a diversity of symbols whose motivation, perhaps, responds to the nostalgic evocation of images of his childhood. Mixed media with the intervention of graphite, acrylic, ink and oil and the use of spatula, brush and certain printing techniques, in a variety of supports that include glass, acetate and paper, in where the color imposes its superiority following the fauve way. Carlos Torres Barragán (Guadalajara 1956) resides in Puerto Vallarta since 1986. You can appreciate his work, in permanent exhibition, at The Loft, Corona 176-A, Downtown. Tel. 222 6353
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