Fundación Bancaja pays tribute to Gustavo Torner with an exhibition in Valencia

The exhibition reviews five decades of the artist's career, exploring his vision of nature.

Interior of an exhibition hall with warm lighting and wooden bookshelves.
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Interior of an exhibition hall with warm lighting and wooden bookshelves.

Fundación Bancaja hosts in Valencia the exhibition The Secret Harmony of Thought, a posthumous tribute to artist Gustavo Torner that brings together five decades of his creative production.

The exhibition, which covers pieces created between 1955 and 2004, explores the intellectual curiosity of a creator who knew how to combine his training as a forestry engineer with deep artistic reflection. The exhibition seeks to offer a global view of a career marked by the constant search for the hidden order in nature.
Among the exhibited works, Bodegón del cesto (1955) stands out, coexisting with sculptures such as La rectitud de las cosas I (1980). It also includes pieces that use diverse materials such as boards, leather straps, or measuring tapes, as is the case with Homenaje a Pitágoras I.

"All his works are harmonic, they are refuges for silence."

Alicia Vallina · Exhibition curator
The work of Gustavo Torner is characterized by deciphering the mathematical and geometric laws that sustain the natural environment. Beyond imitation, his work aims to reveal the rhythms and tensions of the environment, establishing himself as a key figure in abstraction in Spain and in the creation of the Spanish Abstract Art Museum.