Luis Torroba is an artist who likes to discover different formulas within the pictorial world. His meticulous observation has led him to an artistic research, which has made him express himself in different styles and techniques within the so-called avant-garde.
His professional career is very broad and prestigious and has led him to be a set designer and art director for film, theater and television.
His artistic trajectory goes through the origin of characters that managed history and transformed it into a range of chiaroscuro that left their mark on his family lineage.
As a painter he began in 1976 to participate in various group exhibitions and cultural events.
The work of this artist immerses us in a world of continuous movement, always asking “why” and “how”, leaving no thread unwound in his long process of internalization towards the inner development of his own art and the sometimes humorous way of capturing it on his canvases.
«Cuadros y Bocetos para una escena sobre Federico García Lorca» is a monographic exhibition of various works by Luis Torroba. The artist has explored the universe of the poet García Lorca, for whom he feels great respect and admiration, recreating a series of suggestive profiles with a subtle mixture of resources: from charcoal drawing, through collage, to direct painting, in tune with an original composition and aesthetic mastery.
The artist delves into the poet’s depths, emphasizing his face, with its beautiful and noble features, highlighting his talent and grace of spirit as opposed to the sad look we know so well.
The unjust death of the poet is reflected in Torroba’s work, recreating the dramatic scene in its different strokes, without leaving aside the harmony of his style.
Luis Torroba’s professional trajectory suggests a constant evolution on the part of the painter. An attempt to capture the different personal stages and the important moments that lead him to the changes that he has been capturing in each work over the years.
One of the most exciting adventures within his background is the stage dedicated to the great Spanish poet, García Lorca, who served him as inspiration, projecting the feelings of this famous poet from Granada who conquered not only the painter’s heart, but that of all lovers of good poetry.
Crying, pain, colors full of light, are mixed in a series of works that offer us the best of one and the other.
Undoubtedly, an enriching stage of Luis Torroba who prepares another line of work completely different and that will be characterized by the great touch of humor with which to capture one of the greats of Spain.
