Es Baluard Museu
Baltazar Torres
Island of a perfect world III
2007-2008
Artist:
Baltazar Torres
Date:
2007-2008
Technique:
Aluminium, wood, pvc and painted tin
Dimensions:
146 x 50 x 25 cm
Origin:
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma
Registration number:
716

Island of a perfect world III by Baltazar Torres evokes a construction of a cold, desolate micro-city, with no inhabitants, but which does nevertheless include certain solitary, melancholic figures. The artist invites one to reflect on the way in which we live and how we organise cities. Using a model, a base element of architecture, made with fragile material, he shows a simulacrum of weak construction, with a size that may remind us of a toy, and inhabitants like dolls which we can dominate and play with. Torres uses the metaphor and subtle irony as the means to reflect on the world we inhabit and mankind’s relationship with its closest environment. The work is a critical, non-conformist interpretation of the system, speculation and consumption through a singular mise-en-scène.

Baltazar Torres’ research centres on mankind’s relationship with the context that conditions it, and is the central theme of all of his artistic production. The constructed space causes an impact on the being that inhabits it, it forces us to adapt to its lines when actually it should mould itself to ours. It is that city and its constructions which eventually turn human beings into prisoners in their own space, trying to escape into nature whenever they can.

R.E.

Artist biography
Baltazar Torres
Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Portugal, 1961

An artist committed to social ethics, Baltazar Torres, a creator who lives in Porto, combines painting and sculpture with architectural installations in order to create a curious aesthetical proposal as a means of reflection for human beings and their surroundings.

R.E.

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