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ART AS A REASON FOR BEING "El arte como razón de ser" 1993
Text by José Manuel Álvarez Enjuto (Madrid, April 1993)
Exhibition Catalogue COMBINABLES by ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES (b.Elche1949.Alicante). The last landscapes already incorporated small inscriptions of becoming. The geometric elements had abandoned architectural compositions and functioned only as geometric matter on the canvases; quadrangular and cylindrical objects joined together, supporting and mixing with each other, one within another. It is the last link. From that moment on, the elements demanded greater forcefulness, greater space, until opening up to a new field, a field of boundlessness. Thus they arrived at volume, at the three-dimensional arrangement. Sculpture implied a radical modification in her theoretical and ornamental conjectures.
The change represented for ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES her reason for being, her motive for conduct. She left everything for the new hypothesis. Suddenly, she shut herself in her studio like an anchorite and began to work irrepressibly. She believed she had discovered the paradigm of her anxiety. The hours were all the hours of the day. There could be no rest. There could be no interferences to disturb her ideas or mislead her calculations. From the line, she took not only its straightness, nor from the curve only its displacements. From the line she reached the radius, and from the radius the diameter, and from the diameter the circumference, and from the circumference the square, and from the square the combinables, and from the combinables back to painting, to its evolution, its progress, its metamorphosis from nothingness to being.
Now then, this numerical and geometric arrangement is also enhanced by the gesture of poetics, the secret word. It is then that she approaches the word. Word in identical repetition as the figures. In neat union with the combinatorial variations. Word as an absence of painting. Arithmetic as order, as solitude, as silence, as axiom.
Painting—and even more so for a painter like Iluminada García-Torres—could not disappear from her canvases. ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES is NOT a painter who can do without her soul, and her soul is painting, the joy of painting. The latest works evidence this, manifest it so; and painting, which never ceased to be such but unfolded through different paths, the experimentation and exploration of her quintupled lines, retakes its pristine gesture and debates it with the topological. Unfading values. And in that doubt that is not doubt, ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES dialogues, wrapped and unwrapped around her straight divisions, her indisputable formalisms, her candor through words. Completely devoted to her task. To herself. Under her arm, she carried one of those quadrangular notebooks. https://catalogo/COMBINABLES-
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