Salvador Torres has a degree in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in Spain.

His work is halfway between pop and lyrical figuration, and puts us in a plastic narration between fiction and reality, a work in which each frame is transmitted from the biographical reflection and dreamlike.

 

In the last exhibition, he presented his new oil paintings inspired by the Roman theater, which becomes the place that contains more truth of all possible scenarios.

In the　pictorial cycle Theatrum　his works reflect all that is possible within this space while outside their walls what we consider real can prove to be false. It presents some scenarios populated by peacocks, bird nests, nests of wisdom, Roman dice, gambling, theatrical masks, still life and apples, out of scale in different cities, as an extraordinary phenomenon that transcends the local. In the same plane can be dawn and dusk or succession sequences. For this he uses a chromatic clarity and overall lightness of tone. These characters share scenes of paradise, symbols and immortality along history.

 

All elements associated in the Salvador Torres expositions, recovering spaces, living environment and the immortal soul are rescued like was, it is and will be; like a building.

Have been many definitions that have been attributed to the work of Salvador Torres; always riding between pop and lyrical figuration, coming together in the dream-fiction, biographical dream, movie stories, stories painted on an aesthetic "Pop" ultimately, describing it as that picture that emerges from the dreams, memories, concepts fascinated the Surrealists, especially to discover the thoughts and theories of Sigmund Freud, the discovery of the Ego and the irrational or subconscious. At the time it was the result of the union of psychology and painting ... a visual device that years later, Salvador continues to present in his work.

 

According to Pedro Manzano thoughts in his text "Everything is literature", dedicated to the artist, we could say about Salvador Torres, that painting is conceived as a life experience, as well as a space reflection, extended in long pictorial series, raised as a way to meet and present to the viewer. Your search for identity, takes you from the place of the artist himself, regarding elections that will lead to the connection with his work. Painting as a way to name and create a new world, it is itself.

Surrealism believed in the existence of another reality, another world and free thought. It reflected a world absurd, illogical, where reason can not master the subconscious. He took the Dadaism, the importance of chance and rebellion, but he rejected its negative and destructive character. Later, he sought inspiration in the unconscious, the imagination, the method of automatic writing and the study of the theories of Freud psychoanalysis.

 

In 1928 Breton wrote "Surrealism and Painting", which delves into the unconscious, reality, desires and dreams, and how Surrealism intends to transfer these images to the world of art, through a free mental association that does not pay attention to reason or conscience, proposing as a method the automatism.

 

All these concepts can be found in the oils of Salvador Torres, invaded symbols, scenes apparently absurd that only in the artist's head begin to make sense with the reality that only in dreams you seem consistent; Therefore we can define as a surrealist pop to Salvador Torres, for his continued evasion of reality that years ago was initiated in surrealism through the subconscious

His painting comes to putting on a precision of detail that only our dreams have, creating a network of disjointed objects and characters, sometimes faceless, floating subject to a law of one subconscious only found in his innermost intimacy; which he naked covering us from that aesthetic "Pop", which characterizes him.

 

In "Persistence" in memory of Salvador Dalí (A. Reynolds Morse Collection), we can find parallel concepts between these two "Salvador" of dreams and the subconscious, driving their works in parallel to oneiric. The accuracy of detail inherent in both reveals the sharpness of the dreams of each

artist, the illogic of his compositions and scenarios, along with the enigmatic character of both.

Hopefully Salvador Torres continue dreaming in his native Cartagena new stories like Dalí in Cadaques, to continue delighting us with new stories told brush stroke, to continue enjoying the world of his dreams, in that same world offers us through his work.

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Francisco Javier Caballero Cano

Vice Dean of students, communication and culture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia, Spain.