Honys Torres is a self-taught artist, Venezuelan (1969), has participated in numerous Art Salons, in collective and individual exhibitions in almost all Venezuela. She is represented in the collection of two important National museums in Venezuela: the Alejandro Otero Museum and the Armando Reveron Contemporary Art Museum, the latter one of the most important in Latin America.
Honys Torres presents a series of paintings, which has been made for a while from a very personal artistic style (neo- pop), transcending the symbolism of images to an area always framed in the current political, cultural or social events. In the realization of her works, Torres is building a plastic universe full of references "popular" prints: icons, logos, symbols and images identified with the common of our lives that gravitate in the space of our memories and that are easily recognizable by the viewer. They integrate with each other to establish a discourse with moralizing, critical and even sarcastic intention of reality.
In each of her works we can identify frequent existential conflicts of the human being, the massive consumption of junk foods, the almost alienating relationship of the mass media, the mistreatment of animals, racial and sexual discrimination, politics and its characters, the smuggling of organs, mass consumption campaigns, religious beliefs, the overcrowding of day-to-day technology, stress, excessive vanity advertising, entertainment, among others, can determine her art as a contemporary or current movement loaded with a universal collective thought. In this sense we ratify that the work stops being a simple act of representation and becomes a message of denunciation.
Text / Curator: Clemente Martinez
Honys Torres presents a series of paintings, which has been made for a while from a very personal artistic style (neo- pop), transcending the symbolism of images to an area always framed in the current political, cultural or social events. In the realization of her works, Torres is building a plastic universe full of references "popular" prints: icons, logos, symbols and images identified with the common of our lives that gravitate in the space of our memories and that are easily recognizable by the viewer. They integrate with each other to establish a discourse with moralizing, critical and even sarcastic intention of reality.
In each of her works we can identify frequent existential conflicts of the human being, the massive consumption of junk foods, the almost alienating relationship of the mass media, the mistreatment of animals, racial and sexual discrimination, politics and its characters, the smuggling of organs, mass consumption campaigns, religious beliefs, the overcrowding of day-to-day technology, stress, excessive vanity advertising, entertainment, among others, can determine her art as a contemporary or current movement loaded with a universal collective thought. In this sense we ratify that the work stops being a simple act of representation and becomes a message of denunciation.
Text / Curator: Clemente Martinez
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