My work is more than an act of liberating the soul, I feel and hear deep emotion, almost like a whisper of the intangible. I create shapes and volumes where there the enigma of light emerges along with its shadow becoming a changing compositional element.
Venturing into abstraction, remaining, even for an instant, as an ephemeral reflection, transforming your gaze into an act of love and magic.
Almudena Torró early stages in sculpture came from a search for expressing vacuum, which led her to experimenting with metal mesh until it became her means of expression, and transforming and considering sculptural material. Almudena relies on the space-light relationship and on the projected shadows by the works themselves, which become changing compositional elements.
Her ethics are based on essentiality, and her aesthetics on diversity.
The research project she is working on, and its common thread, focuses on transformation through continuous change. In this, nothing remains the same, energy with constant activity destroying and creating, as it confronts reality and the passage of time.
The sculptures of Almudena make are lived experiences; they are part of her, of her soul. She works with an abstract concept, sculptural construction, combined with chance, with which she corrects and decides spontaneously with a dynamic action.
Her works have their own language and this makes the viewer feel integrated into them, offering a kaleidoscopic look in order to generate artistic synergy with the public.
With the Trails series she expresses the cycle of life and its decisions by entering a world of experiences, sensations and transformations that lead us to reconnect the origin of our primal essence.
With the Jumble series, she delves into the pain of death and its sense of loss; on the one hand, the loss of a loved one, and on the other, the loss of oneself.
She has used aluminium and steel as a thread to symbolise a core connection, at any level, be it spiritual, biological, social, etc., evoking Ariadne’s thread, which is the agent connecting the centre of the labyrinth and guiding one from the world of darkness to the world of light.
The É – Panta rei series combines the experience of the “Trails series” and the “Jumbles series” created in recent years, in which she has chosen to experience an inner transformation made from love and freedom to value the dignity of each individual, feeling that “everything flows, nothing stops” in this vital experience of continuous change.
The Æria series is the intimate connection with her essence, as Nietzsche said, air is the very material of our freedom.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Fantastick Lab, Valencia, Spain.
2022 The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2022 Art Nordic, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2021 Artist 360º Fair, Madrid.
2020 Santamaca Gallery, Alicante, Spain.
2019 Betwen Trails and Jumble, University Headquarters of the City of Alicante, Miguel Hernández Hall.
2019 Undoing the Jumble II, Casa de Cultura, Castalla, Alicante.
2018 Undoing the Jumble, Casa de Cultura de Sant Joan d´Alacant, Sala Pablo Lau.
2017 Iridescence, ACAS, Elche.
2013 Beginnings, Migas Exhibition Space, Alicante.
Group Exhibitions
2024 A & G Private Bank, Madrid, Spain.
2023 XVII International Virtual Museum Exhibition MundoArti Spring Season.
2023 A & G Private Bank, Madrid, Spain.
2022 ArtQuake Gallery, Monbull Corner, Madrid, Spain.
2021 SCULTO International Fair of Contemporary Sculpture (IV edition), Logroño.
2020 Volta Gallery, Alicante.
2020 These days, Tres por cuatro Gallery, Madrid.
2020 Stories of a Confinement (Online), University Headquarters of the City of Alicante.
2019 Contemporary Collective, Abartium Gallery, Calldetenes, Barcelona.
2018/2017 Natural Stone Sculptures, Levantina-UMH Foundation. Itinerance: Center of Interpretation of marble and wine from Pinoso. Cultural Center Gómez Tortosa de Novelda and Levantina de Novelda Showroom.
2014 10 (Ten) in Porject, Andrés Lambert Arts Center in Jávea, Alicante.
2013 Transits II, House of Culture of Sant Joan d´Alacant.
2013 Transits, Finca la Barberá, Villajoyosa, Alicante.
2011 Reconstructed spaces 01. Frax Foundation, El Albir, Alicante.2011 Exhibition of the IV Contest of Abstract Painting, Casa de la Mediterranía, La Nucía, Alicante.
2011 100% Photography, Rip Room, Altea, Alicante.
Awards
2024 Finalist in Aesthetica Art Price 2024, York, United Kingdom.
2023 Visual Art Open UK & International Artist Award 2023 Longlisted, London.
2023 VAA Profesional Artist Award 2023 Longlisted, London.
2021 Cluster Residency Featured Artist, London
2020 The Silver Prize, Awesome Art Prizes Spring Edition 2020.
2019 Selected in the XXXI International and Multidisciplinary Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Barcelona.
2017 Finalist in the II Stone Sculpture Awards Fundación Levantina-UMH, Novelda, Alicante.
ACADEMIC TRAINING
2010/2014 Graduated in Fine Arts from the Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain.
2007/2009 Master in Expert-Appraiser in Antiquities and Artworks in the Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid, Spain.
Publications
2022 https://www.cruzbajo.com/almudenatorro
2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ghrLmfGnA
2020 https://viviendasvolta.com/exposiciones/al-hilo-del-art/
2020 18 Stories of a Confinement, University Headquarters of the City of Alicante, ISBN: 978-121416-7-2
2020.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIsEkC5Z8AA (1:30 – 1:47 min)
Jury
2020 Jury Member of the 53 Painting Contest, Vila de Sant Joan D´Alacant.
2019 Jury Member of the 52 Painting Contest, Vila de Sant Joan D´Alacant.
2018 Jury Member of the 51 Painting Contest, Vila de Sant Joan D´Alacant.
