MUSEO TORRES GARCIA

The museum is dedicated to Torres García, painter and founder of constructivism, who left his mark on modern Uruguayan art. A native of Montevideo, Torres García studied in Europe with art giants like Picasso. Back in Uruguay, influenced by European Constructivism and avant-garde movements such as Cubism, he dedicated his life to teaching and developing his theory, Constructive Universalism. As Malraux said, "Torres García is undoubtedly the American painter who has most influenced American art." This museum, initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture and especially by the artist's widow, Manolita Piña de Torres, who died in 1994, has a permanent display of his work on the first two floors. The second floor presents remarkable portraits from the series Men, Heroes and Monsters and ceramics made by his daughter Eva Diaz Torres, using the Japanese technique of raku, linked to the sato ceremony (the path of tea) and developed in the ^16th century. The third floor houses temporary exhibitions highlighting the work of Torres García's students, including his sons Horacio and Augusto, Julio Alpuy, Gonzalo Fonseca. Conferences on the master are regularly held on the 4th floor, as well as classes at the art workshop, Bien al Sur, located on the 5th floor (classes in ceramics, drawing, painting, stone and wood sculpture). At the entrance, a store offers beautiful decorative objects and works of art for sale.