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# Torres Garcia to the Left of Me, Torres Garcia to the Right of Me
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/joaquin-torres-garcia/
- Published: 2011-12-01T18:51:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:48:30.000Z
- Description: MIAMI — Every year art watchers see trends. Many of these are more about the commentator's interests and fixations than anything real. This year, I kept seeing works by great Uruguayan modernist Joaquín Torres García.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, Joaquín Torres-García, Miami Art Fairs, Photo Essays, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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A Torres Garcia corner at the Uruguayan Galeria Sur (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

MIAMI — Every year art watchers see trends. Many of these are more about the commentator’s interests and fixations than anything real. This year, I kept seeing works by great Uruguayan modernist [Joaquín Torres García](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn%5FTorres%5FGarc%C3%ADa?ref=hyperallergic.com). Founder of a bizarrely named movement, Constructive Universalism, he’s known for his primary colored cubistic works that incorporate stacked architectural elements with cityscapes, lettering and faces.

This year, IMHO, was a windfall for the lover of Torres Garcia. Here is what I saw.

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Works by Torres Garcia at Madrid's Guillermo de Osma

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Torres Garcia's "Grafismo Metafisico" (1943) at Guillermo de Osma

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An incised wood piece by Torres Garcia.

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"Figures en rouge et noir" (1928)

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Rio negro (Arte constructivo)" (1943) at Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art (photo by Jason Andrew/Hyperallergic)

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A wall of works on paper by Torres Garcia at Guillermo de Osma.

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Among the paper works was this, "Figura constructiva" (1935)

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"Estructura con objetos esquematicos" (1943) at Madrid's Galeria Leandro Navarro

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"Formes ocres et rouges" (1939)

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"Estructura animista" (1933) at Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art (photo by Jason Andrew/Hyperallergic)

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