Oral history interview with Ruben Torres-Llorca
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 6 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Torres Llorca, Rubén, 1957-
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
label: Names
content: Instituto Superior de Arte (Cuba)
label: Names
content: Bedia, José, 1959-
label: Names
content: Rodríguez Brey, Ricardo, 1955-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Cuba
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Florida -- Miami -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Expatriate artists -- Florida -- Miami -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Cuban
label: Topic
content: Cuban American art
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Cuban American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Torres Llorca, Rubén, 1957-
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ruben Torres-Llorca (1957-) is a Cuban born painter and sculptor in Miami, Florida.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 133 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 January 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.torres98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ruben Torres-Llorca conducted 1998 January 31, by Juan A. Martínez, in Torres Llora's home/studio, Miami, Florida, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Torres Llora discusses his early interest in art; his father, whom he never met, who was a talented commercial artist; studying art at San Alejandro Academy of Art, Havana and fellow students Jose Bedia and Ricardo Rodriguez Brey; graduate studies at Havana's Instituto Superior del Arte; participating in the "Volumen I" exhibition in 1981; travels to Mexico, where he began sculpture and installations; returning to Cuba and curating exhibitions of younger artists; moving to Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and since 1993, Miami; artistic influences, including literature, anthropology, sociololgy, film, and other disciplines on him; his mixed media figurative objects of the 1990s which tell a narrative, are socially oriented, and at best, provide a shared experience for the viewer.