Valentin Torrens, Performance Artist in Barcelona
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Barcelona is one of the largest cities in the country, and all of Europe, and has a reputation for being one of the main centers for art and commerce in the world. It has attracted great minds for centuries, and this is no different today. Interesting new movements in performance and visual arts speak to a local and global audience here. Valentin Torrens brings visual art and performance together in his eclectic and fascinating body of work. He is not only an artist, but Torrens is also working as an educator, compiling materials to teach performance to the next generations.
Born in 1951, he has been an active participant in the performance art world since the 1980s. Based in Barcelona, he performs all over the planet, provoking and engaging audiences with his complex and intriguing vision. He also works as an installation artist, and as an organizer, bringing together performance artists from all over to participate in group works and festivals. In one particular performance in Spain, Valentin Torrens used card tricks to lure audiences into his work, which challenges perception and the notion of realness. This combined with other radical actions, and was then layered with projection work which all worked to give a complexly-layered evening, where multiple versions of reality conflicted with each other. It is highly evocative work, and anyone spending time in Barcelona should seek out work by this artist.
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