Museo Torres García
Museum on Peatonal Sarandí devoted to Joaquín Torres García and constructive universalism.
Joaquín Torres García was born in Montevideo in 1874, worked for decades in Barcelona, New York and Paris, and returned home in 1934 to found the school of constructive universalism. His family set up a foundation to keep the work in Uruguay, and the museum opened in 1990 in a nineteenth-century house on the pedestrian Calle Sarandí in the old city. Four floors of galleries make it the main public collection of the artist and of the workshop he led until his death in 1949.
The display gathers paintings, drawings, wooden constructions, toys, murals and writings, tracing the move from early classical and Catalan subjects to the grid-based compositions built from symbols. Copies of America Inverted, the drawing of the continent turned upside down that became a manifesto for Latin American art, are shown alongside works by pupils of the Taller Torres García. The museum keeps an archive and library, shows temporary exhibitions of Uruguayan artists and runs a programme of talks and workshops.
Highlights
- Largest public holding of works by Joaquín Torres García
- Constructive paintings, wooden objects and toys
- Material on the Taller Torres García and its pupils
- Free entry in a nineteenth-century house on Peatonal Sarandí
