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"Geometric-digital art project by visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (b. 1949, Elche, SPAIN): The lines traced within each 'mathematical unit-matrix square'—with sides consisting of "four communicating horizons expanded into cartographies of musicality—aligned with the sides of adjacent squares to release a 'continuum' of ethereal rhythms. These rhythms express a perception of various cities and countries through computer-generated variables of the mathematical concept (1991), sustaining geometric potential until achieving the harmony of the digital 'Musicality' diagrams: Sweden-Beijing-Africa-Madrid-Greece-New York-Brooklyn-Mumbai Bombay-Europe-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Berlin-Latin America-Universe. ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (b.1949 Elche, Spain) is a visual artist who studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the UCM (1965-1970) in Madrid, where she was a student of the geometric painter Eusebio Sempere. spatial-layout.blogspot.com LONDON net-squares- lines.blogspot.com 2000
THE ESSENCE OF ARIADNA by Vicente Verdú (04/07/2000). Exhibition Catalogue: Continuous Spatial Layout - Ariadne's Thread Geometric Art by ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (Elche 1949, Spain). MACE exhibitions, Elche 2000
ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (Elche 1949) repeatedly mentions, when referring to her current paintings, that the origin of her evolution rests upon the profound discovery (she painted two oil canvases 1986-87) of the sculpture "Sleeping Ariadne" in the Museo del Prado more than ten years ago. At first glance, anyone would be surprised by the radical evolution that unfolds from her first paintings—where rounded classical forms were recreated—to these current geometric and chromatic exercises detached from figuration. In appearance, the present could be interpreted as a break with the past, and the distinct current experience as a way of escaping the objective adventure of yesteryear.
The magic, however, of Iluminada García-Torres’s painting is that it constitutes, from beginning to end, a single task of inquiry, as rigorous and truthful as that which the painters most committed to the truth of their craft have undertaken throughout history. Art is a form of communication and a form of knowledge, and its history oscillates upon the different proportions of this double composition.
The work of Iluminada García-Torres is distanced by conviction and temperament from international fashions and sensationalist tricks or the mannerisms that adapt to the conventions of the present day. For many years [she has worked] almost in solitude, both inside and outside of Spain.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche 1949) has been advancing in a purification of her inquiries. From the contemplation of the classical marble sculpture, Sleeping Ariadne, she did not obtain, as definitive, the visible booty of its ostentatious rotundity, but rather delved even beyond its marble effigy, into its structure, and beyond its structure, into the "drawing of its music." She called this exploration a path in pursuit of harmony, and with that obsessive tenacity, she has been obtaining the purest particles of the composition.
Now, in the paintings, geometric figures are perceived—expressions of a series of elementary motifs as if, in the research process, Iluminada García-Torres had managed to glimpse and isolate the genetic sequence of the original sculpture. Her fascination for that marble—which she painted from two perspectives, recreated in different landscapes, and dreamed of in endless versions—has been definitively revealed to her in the terms of its enigma.
What now appears projected on the squares is the linear architecture of that corporeality, because the time destined for the essentiality and abstraction of the object has reached this fundamental secret, its very primary DNA. Upon the canvas, the body of "Ariadne's Thread" does not appear, but rather its genome deconstructed into lines and color; its soul portrayed in the impalpable quality of the harmony that the canvas delivers as a synthesis of the primordial.Few painters are capable of having maintained such a severe and deep fidelity to the vocation of knowledge, and few have added to it an honesty so firmly established in principles. Thanks to a small group of artists like ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, art continues living and reclaiming its necessity, oblivious to utilitarian artifice. The painting of Iluminada García-Torres thus offers a fundamental challenge and the opportunity to enjoy the emotion of the essential. THE ESSENCE OF ARIADNA by Vicente Verdú (04/07/2000). https://geometria-color-musicalidad-by-ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES-exposicion-Elche-2015
LA ESENCIA DE ARIADNA por Vicente Verdú 7/04/2000
catálogo exposición Trazado espacial continuo-Hilo de Ariadna
arte geométrico by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche1949 Spain).
MACE exposiciones temporales de Elche 2000
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (b. Elche 1949) repite con asiduidad al referirse a sus actuales pinturas que el origen de su evolución descansa en el profundo descubrimiento (pintó dos lienzos al óleo 1986-87) de la escultura de "Ariadna dormida" en el Museo del Prado hace más de diez años. A primera vista, cualquiera se sorprendería de la radical evolución que se despliega desde sus primeros cuadros donde se recreaban las rotundas formas clásicas hasta estos actuales ejercicios geométricos y cromáticos desprendidos de figuración. En apariencia lo presente podría interpretarse como una ruptura con el pasado y la neta experiencia actual una manera de evasión de la objetiva aventura de antaño. La magia, sin embargo, de la pintura de Iluminada García-Torres es que constituye, de principio a fin, una misma tarea de indagación, tan rigurosa y veraz como la que han emprendido en la historia los pintores más comprometidos con la verdad de su oficio. El arte es una forma de comunicación y una forma de conocimiento, y su historia bascula sobre las diferentes proporciones de esta doble composición.
Durante muchos años casi en solitario tanto dentro como fuera de España ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES ha ido avanzando en una depuración de. sus pesquisas, De la contemplación de la escultura clásica de mármol, Ariadna dormida no obtubo, como definitivo, el visible botín de su ostentosa rotundidad, sino se adentró incluso más allá de su marmórea efigie, en su estructura y más allá de su estructura, en el "dibujo de su música". Ella denominó esta exploración como un camino en persecución de la armonía y con esa tenacidad obsesiva ha ido obteniendo las partículas más puras de la composición, ahora en los cuadros se perciben figuras geométricas, plasmaciones de una serie de motivos elementales que son como si, en el proceso de la investigación, Iluminada García-Torres hubiera llegado a vislumbrar y aislar la secuencia genética de la escultura original, su fascinación por aquel mármol que pintó desde dos perspectivas, que recreó en distintos paisajes, que soñó en interminables versiones, se le ha revelado definitivamente en los términos de su enigma, lo que ahora aparece proyectado en los cuadrados es la arquitectura lineal de aquella corporeidad, poque el tiempo destinado a la esencialidad y abstracción del objeto ha llegado hasta este secreto fundamental, hasta su mismo ADN primario. Sobre el lienzo no aparece el cuerpo de "El hilo de Ariadna" sino su genoma deconstruido en líneas y color, su alma retratada en la impalpable calidad de la armonía que el lienzo entrega como síntesis de lo primordial. Pocos pintores son capaces de haber mantenido una fidelidad tan severa y honda a la vocación de conocimiento y pocos han sumado a ello una honrradez tan afianzada en los principios. Gracias a un pequeño grupo de artistas como Iluminada García-Torres, el arte sigue viviendo y reclamando su necesidad ajeno a los efectismos utilitaristas. La pintura de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES ofrece así un desafío fundamental y la oportunidad de disfrutar la emoción de lo esencial. LA ESENCIA DE ARIADNA por Vicente Verdú 7/04/2000
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"Geometric-digital art project by visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (b. 1949, Elche, SPAIN): The lines traced within each 'mathematical unit-matrix square'—with sides consisting of "four communicating horizons expanded into cartographies of musicality—aligned with the sides of adjacent squares to release a 'continuum' of ethereal rhythms. These rhythms express a perception of various cities and countries through computer-generated variables of the mathematical concept (1991), sustaining geometric potential until achieving the harmony of the digital 'Musicality' diagrams: Sweden-Beijing-Africa-Madrid-Greece-New York-Brooklyn-Mumbai Bombay-Europe-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Berlin-Latin America-Universe. ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (b.1949 Elche, Spain) is a visual artist who studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the UCM (1965-1970) in Madrid, where she was a student of the geometric painter Eusebio Sempere. spatial-layout.blogspot.com LONDON net-squares- lines.blogspot.com 2000
THE ESSENCE OF ARIADNA by Vicente Verdú (04/07/2000). Exhibition Catalogue: Continuous Spatial Layout - Ariadne's Thread Geometric Art by ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (Elche 1949, Spain). MACE exhibitions, Elche 2000
ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (Elche 1949) repeatedly mentions, when referring to her current paintings, that the origin of her evolution rests upon the profound discovery (she painted two oil canvases 1986-87) of the sculpture "Sleeping Ariadne" in the Museo del Prado more than ten years ago. At first glance, anyone would be surprised by the radical evolution that unfolds from her first paintings—where rounded classical forms were recreated—to these current geometric and chromatic exercises detached from figuration. In appearance, the present could be interpreted as a break with the past, and the distinct current experience as a way of escaping the objective adventure of yesteryear.
The magic, however, of Iluminada García-Torres’s painting is that it constitutes, from beginning to end, a single task of inquiry, as rigorous and truthful as that which the painters most committed to the truth of their craft have undertaken throughout history. Art is a form of communication and a form of knowledge, and its history oscillates upon the different proportions of this double composition.
The work of Iluminada García-Torres is distanced by conviction and temperament from international fashions and sensationalist tricks or the mannerisms that adapt to the conventions of the present day. For many years [she has worked] almost in solitude, both inside and outside of Spain.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche 1949) has been advancing in a purification of her inquiries. From the contemplation of the classical marble sculpture, Sleeping Ariadne, she did not obtain, as definitive, the visible booty of its ostentatious rotundity, but rather delved even beyond its marble effigy, into its structure, and beyond its structure, into the "drawing of its music." She called this exploration a path in pursuit of harmony, and with that obsessive tenacity, she has been obtaining the purest particles of the composition.
Now, in the paintings, geometric figures are perceived—expressions of a series of elementary motifs as if, in the research process, Iluminada García-Torres had managed to glimpse and isolate the genetic sequence of the original sculpture. Her fascination for that marble—which she painted from two perspectives, recreated in different landscapes, and dreamed of in endless versions—has been definitively revealed to her in the terms of its enigma.
What now appears projected on the squares is the linear architecture of that corporeality, because the time destined for the essentiality and abstraction of the object has reached this fundamental secret, its very primary DNA. Upon the canvas, the body of "Ariadne's Thread" does not appear, but rather its genome deconstructed into lines and color; its soul portrayed in the impalpable quality of the harmony that the canvas delivers as a synthesis of the primordial.Few painters are capable of having maintained such a severe and deep fidelity to the vocation of knowledge, and few have added to it an honesty so firmly established in principles. Thanks to a small group of artists like ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, art continues living and reclaiming its necessity, oblivious to utilitarian artifice. The painting of Iluminada García-Torres thus offers a fundamental challenge and the opportunity to enjoy the emotion of the essential. THE ESSENCE OF ARIADNA by Vicente Verdú (04/07/2000). https://geometria-color-musicalidad-by-ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES-exposicion-Elche-2015
LA ESENCIA DE ARIADNA por Vicente Verdú 7/04/2000
catálogo exposición Trazado espacial continuo-Hilo de Ariadna
arte geométrico by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche1949 Spain).
MACE exposiciones temporales de Elche 2000
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (b. Elche 1949) repite con asiduidad al referirse a sus actuales pinturas que el origen de su evolución descansa en el profundo descubrimiento (pintó dos lienzos al óleo 1986-87) de la escultura de "Ariadna dormida" en el Museo del Prado hace más de diez años. A primera vista, cualquiera se sorprendería de la radical evolución que se despliega desde sus primeros cuadros donde se recreaban las rotundas formas clásicas hasta estos actuales ejercicios geométricos y cromáticos desprendidos de figuración. En apariencia lo presente podría interpretarse como una ruptura con el pasado y la neta experiencia actual una manera de evasión de la objetiva aventura de antaño. La magia, sin embargo, de la pintura de Iluminada García-Torres es que constituye, de principio a fin, una misma tarea de indagación, tan rigurosa y veraz como la que han emprendido en la historia los pintores más comprometidos con la verdad de su oficio. El arte es una forma de comunicación y una forma de conocimiento, y su historia bascula sobre las diferentes proporciones de esta doble composición.
Durante muchos años casi en solitario tanto dentro como fuera de España ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES ha ido avanzando en una depuración de. sus pesquisas, De la contemplación de la escultura clásica de mármol, Ariadna dormida no obtubo, como definitivo, el visible botín de su ostentosa rotundidad, sino se adentró incluso más allá de su marmórea efigie, en su estructura y más allá de su estructura, en el "dibujo de su música". Ella denominó esta exploración como un camino en persecución de la armonía y con esa tenacidad obsesiva ha ido obteniendo las partículas más puras de la composición, ahora en los cuadros se perciben figuras geométricas, plasmaciones de una serie de motivos elementales que son como si, en el proceso de la investigación, Iluminada García-Torres hubiera llegado a vislumbrar y aislar la secuencia genética de la escultura original, su fascinación por aquel mármol que pintó desde dos perspectivas, que recreó en distintos paisajes, que soñó en interminables versiones, se le ha revelado definitivamente en los términos de su enigma, lo que ahora aparece proyectado en los cuadrados es la arquitectura lineal de aquella corporeidad, poque el tiempo destinado a la esencialidad y abstracción del objeto ha llegado hasta este secreto fundamental, hasta su mismo ADN primario. Sobre el lienzo no aparece el cuerpo de "El hilo de Ariadna" sino su genoma deconstruido en líneas y color, su alma retratada en la impalpable calidad de la armonía que el lienzo entrega como síntesis de lo primordial. Pocos pintores son capaces de haber mantenido una fidelidad tan severa y honda a la vocación de conocimiento y pocos han sumado a ello una honrradez tan afianzada en los principios. Gracias a un pequeño grupo de artistas como Iluminada García-Torres, el arte sigue viviendo y reclamando su necesidad ajeno a los efectismos utilitaristas. La pintura de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES ofrece así un desafío fundamental y la oportunidad de disfrutar la emoción de lo esencial. LA ESENCIA DE ARIADNA por Vicente Verdú 7/04/2000
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La Vista del jardín de la Villa Medici de Roma con la estatua de Ariadna, también conocido como El pabellón de Ariadna-Logia de Cleopatra o El mediodía, es un óleo 44x38cm pintado por Velázquez durante su primer viaje a Italia, entre 1629 y 1631.
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ehda-music.blogspot.comsuma2007Exhibition geometric art, paintings, mixed media and paper sculptures by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949 Elche Spain) at Hortensia art Gallery KENSINGTON and CHELSEA COLLEGE, Hortensia Road, LONDON SW10 0QS UK, January 2000 .exhibition%20at%20Kensington%20andChelsea%20College%20Hortensia%20Gallery%20January%2012th-26th,%20LONDON%202000%20(1)%20(1).jpg)
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The sculpture "Combinables Eje Energético" by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche, 1949)—analyzed by architect and academic Tomás Martínez Blasco in the Diario INFORMACIÓN on November 10, 2002, under the title "La escultura de la plaza de San Juan"—is constructed using geometric forms in bronze and steel. to create an "energy axis" that redefines the urban space of the Plaza de San Juan in Elche. The work acts as a modern totem that connects tradition with contemporaneity through a dynamic visual dialogue.
"The analysis of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES's work, through her 'Combinables Eje Energético 2002', places us before an exercise in geometry and volume where matter (steel and bronze) acquires an architectural dimension. The piece does not merely occupy a space; it generates one.
Through its vertical forms and the displacement of its blocks, the sculpture establishes a dialogue with the urban environment of the Plaza de San Juan, acting as a totem of modernity that channels the aesthetic force of the material. It is a work of balance and tension, where the rigidity of the metal becomes dynamic through the play of light and shadows projected by its combinable planes."
Industrial Aesthetic: ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES uses steel for the cylindrical shapes and bronze for the cubic ones—materials that provide durability and a changing texture under sunlight.
Geometry and Modularity: It belongs to the "Combinables" series, characterized by the assembly of geometric volumes that appear reconfigurable, creating a highly vertical structure.
Urban Integration: It was conceived to revitalize the Plaza de San Juan, acting as a visual landmark that connects the neighborhood's historical tradition with contemporary artistic language.
Symbolism: The "Energy Axis" represents a column of strength and stability, balancing the heaviness of the metals with gaps and empty spaces that allow the viewer's gaze to pass through the sculpture.
Concept: It is designed as an "energy axis" (eje energético) that redefines the urban space of the Plaza de San Juan in Elche.
Style: As part of the "Combinables" series, the sculpture acts as a modern totem, bridging historical tradition with contemporary geometric art through a dynamic
Industrial Aesthetic: ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES uses steel for the cylindrical shapes and bronze for the cubic ones—materials that provide durability and a changing texture under sunlight.
Geometry and Modularity: It belongs to the "Combinables" series, characterized by the assembly of geometric volumes that appear reconfigurable, creating a highly vertical structure.
Urban Integration: It was conceived to revitalize the Plaza de San Juan, acting as a visual landmark that connects the neighborhood's historical tradition with contemporary artistic language.
Symbolism: The "Energy Axis" represents a column of strength and stability, balancing the heaviness of the metals with gaps and empty spaces that allow the viewer's gaze to pass through the sculpture.
Concept: It is designed as an "energy axis" (eje energético) that redefines the urban space of the Plaza de San Juan in Elche.
Style: As part of the "Combinables" series, the sculpture acts as a modern totem, bridging historical tradition with contemporary geometric art through a dynamic
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Digital-geometric art project by visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949 Elche, SPAIN): The lines drawn in each matrix square—with sides consisting of 4 communicating horizons expanded into musicality cartographies—express a perception of various cities and countries through computer-generated variables of the mathematical concept (1991). Maintaining geometric potential until achieving the harmony of the digital Musicality diagrams: Sweden-Beijing-Africa-Madrid-Greece-New York-Brooklyn-Mumbai Bombay-Europe-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Berlin-Latin America-Universe.
The conceptual relationships between: VICENTE VERDÚ and the artwork of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (b. Elche1949 Spain) focuses on the synthesis of art, mathematics, and science. Verdú, a prominent Spanish writer and journalist, authored the text "The Essence of Ariadne" (7/4/2000) specifically for Iluminada García-Torres's artistic project, catalogue and exhibition titled "Continuous Spatial Tracing - Ariadne's Thread." (6-31/5/2000)
"The Thread of Ariadne" as a Methodology: For Iluminada García-Torres, the geometric and mathematical pattern derived from the classical sculpture Sleeping Ariadne (Prado Museum) serves as the foundation for her compositions, Verdú suggests thats this is the pattern represents the MUSIC and DNA of the marble sculpture, forming the basis of Iluminada García-Torres's geometric art.
DNA and Musicality: The work explores the "musicality" of geometry, where lines and structures follow a rhythmic and almost biological logic (DNA).
Verdú's Perspective: Verdú's text providing a literary and philosophical narrative for the visual form. Verdú often wrote about the intersection of culture, design, and the zeitgeist (spirit of the times), finding in the work of Iluminada García-Torres (born 1949, Elche) a reflection of modern complexity resolved through geometric harmony.
"The Thread of Ariadne" stems from the visual artist's deep obsession with the marble sculpture Sleeping Ariadne in Naxos at the Prado Museum, which she began two painting on canvas at the museum,1986-87
Origin at the Prado Museum: Iluminada García-Torres discovered a geometric and mathematical pattern in the classical marble sculpture of Ariadne that defines the figure's harmony.
Geometric Translation: From the classical figure, the artist develops a system of "combinables" and lines in continuous spatial layouts based on the matrix square.
Music and DNA: Vicente Verdú's text explores how Iluminada García-Torres decodes the sculpture as if it were a musical score the genetic code (DNA), transforming the marble's lines into musical vibrations and digital diagrams.
"The Thread of Ariadne": This series connects mythology with technological modernity, using geometry as the "thread" that guides creation through time and space.
It is fascinating how ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949) manages to break a 2nd-century piece of marble to find its digital rhythm. Vicente Verdú, with his usual sharp wit, perfectly captured that transition: the artist does not merely copy the Sleeping Ariadne; she "hacks" her. By extracting the master square from the Prado Museum sculpture, she converts the classical myth into a language of vibrations and algorithms. It is, in essence, transforming stone into a visual score where the "thread" is no longer wool, but an infinite geometric connection. ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES doesn’t stop at contemplating the marble; she treats it as source code.
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Digital-geometric art project by visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949 Elche, SPAIN): The lines drawn in each matrix square—with sides consisting of 4 communicating horizons expanded into musicality cartographies—express a perception of various cities and countries through computer-generated variables of the mathematical concept (1991). Maintaining geometric potential until achieving the harmony of the digital Musicality diagrams: Sweden-Beijing-Africa-Madrid-Greece-New York-Brooklyn-Mumbai Bombay-Europe-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Berlin-Latin America-Universe.
The conceptual relationships between: VICENTE VERDÚ and the artwork of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (b. Elche1949 Spain) focuses on the synthesis of art, mathematics, and science. Verdú, a prominent Spanish writer and journalist, authored the text "The Essence of Ariadne" (7/4/2000) specifically for Iluminada García-Torres's artistic project, catalogue and exhibition titled "Continuous Spatial Tracing - Ariadne's Thread." (6-31/5/2000)
"The Thread of Ariadne" as a Methodology: For Iluminada García-Torres, the geometric and mathematical pattern derived from the classical sculpture Sleeping Ariadne (Prado Museum) serves as the foundation for her compositions, Verdú suggests thats this is the pattern represents the MUSIC and DNA of the marble sculpture, forming the basis of Iluminada García-Torres's geometric art.
DNA and Musicality: The work explores the "musicality" of geometry, where lines and structures follow a rhythmic and almost biological logic (DNA).
Verdú's Perspective: Verdú's text providing a literary and philosophical narrative for the visual form. Verdú often wrote about the intersection of culture, design, and the zeitgeist (spirit of the times), finding in the work of Iluminada García-Torres (born 1949, Elche) a reflection of modern complexity resolved through geometric harmony.
"The Thread of Ariadne" stems from the visual artist's deep obsession with the marble sculpture Sleeping Ariadne in Naxos at the Prado Museum, which she began two painting on canvas at the museum,1986-87
Origin at the Prado Museum: Iluminada García-Torres discovered a geometric and mathematical pattern in the classical marble sculpture of Ariadne that defines the figure's harmony.
Geometric Translation: From the classical figure, the artist develops a system of "combinables" and lines in continuous spatial layouts based on the matrix square.
Music and DNA: Vicente Verdú's text explores how Iluminada García-Torres decodes the sculpture as if it were a musical score the genetic code (DNA), transforming the marble's lines into musical vibrations and digital diagrams.
"The Thread of Ariadne": This series connects mythology with technological modernity, using geometry as the "thread" that guides creation through time and space.
It is fascinating how ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949) manages to break a 2nd-century piece of marble to find its digital rhythm. Vicente Verdú, with his usual sharp wit, perfectly captured that transition: the artist does not merely copy the Sleeping Ariadne; she "hacks" her. By extracting the master square from the Prado Museum sculpture, she converts the classical myth into a language of vibrations and algorithms. It is, in essence, transforming stone into a visual score where the "thread" is no longer wool, but an infinite geometric connection. ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES doesn’t stop at contemplating the marble; she treats it as source code.
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Iluminada Garcia-Torres
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toa-musicality.blogspot.com
Las líneas trazadas en cada cuadrado matriz con lados que constituyen 4 horizontes comunicantes expandidos en digital cartografías de musicalidad, expresan una percepción de diversas ciudades, países… en las variables generadas con la aplicación sistemática del concepto matemático (1991), manteniendo el potencial geométrico hasta la consecución de la armonía de los diagramas digitales de Musicalidad: Sweden-Beijing-Africa-Madrid-Greece-New York-Brooklyn-Mumbai Bombay-Europa-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Berlin-Latinoamérica-Universo-
among-lines.blogspot.com 2009
Museu Art Contemporani de ELX - EIVISSA 2002
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Museu Art Contemporani de ELX - EIVISSA 2002
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numerical-design.blogspot.com 2002
among-lines.blogspot.com 2009
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el-hilo-digital.blogspot.com 2005-07
https://geometria-digital-El-Hilo-de-Ariadna-Musica-in-progress-Armonia-by-ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES-convocatoria-Artes-Plasticas-2008-Diputacion-de-ALICANTE-2008
Descubre una obra de arte en el MUBAG (2005-2015)/ ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES páginas 232-233
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Descubre una obra de arte en el MUBAG (2005-2015)/ ILUMINADA-GARCIA-TORRES páginas 232-233
among-lines.blogspot.com 2009
iluminadagarciatorres.blogspot.com
texto de Vicente Verdú exposición Trazado Espacial Continuo-HILO de Ariadna by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (Elche-Elx).
iluminadagarciatorres.blogspot.com
texto de Vicente Verdú exposición Trazado Espacial Continuo-HILO de Ariadna by ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (Elche-Elx).
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