Raúl de la Torre was born in Barcelona, Catalonia in 1964 and gained a college degree at UB Barcelona graduating in Marketing Direction at the Escuela Superior de Marketing y Administracion de Empresas. He also attended Massana Art School in Barcelona.
Artist Statement
“My artwork has covered a number of series, each with a different theme, using different materials, textures and techniques. In spite of having worked on a number of large series of paintings, none of them has had more than ten paintings. The only point of unity among the different works was a quest for discovery. Experimentation with different materials, textures and techniques in each of the paintings has been a point of discovery and a major part of my artwork.
The first difference of this series from that of all my previous works is the united theme, the second, most accentuated difference was the greater use of color which was typically less pronounced in previous works of the last four years.
The major motivation for the idea behind CIUTATS was my city, Barcelona, and it's particular infrastructure, and architecture which is unique among the cities of the world and which is easily recognizable. My personal attraction to the great cities of the world and the urban life bolstered my incentive.
Man created the city and in turn the city has molded the actions and ideas of the human race. I have intended to mold the city, to create my city, to put in order the urban chaos in a reduced physical space. I have intended to portray the different aspects of the cities as a human creation with their different levels of physical and social existence.
Forget that the cities in which we live have been formed with asphalt, cement, human misery, forgotten revolutions, buried bones and transform them into a conglomeration of texture and color put onto the frontier of canvas and paper.”
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Member of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Council
Member of LAAA (Los Angeles Art Association)
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Art Depot Gallery “Exploring the Color” City of Fontana
2009 Seyhoun Gallery, Melrose Ave. West Hollywood, CA
2008 Blue Bird Art Show, Whittier, CA
2006 Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist
