Gustavo Torner

(Cuenca, Spain, 1925)

Self-taught in art, in 1963 he founded, together with Zóbel and Rueda, the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca. In 1966 he received a Fine Arts Pension from the Juan March Foundation. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions throughout the Iberian Peninsula. In group exhibitions his work has travelled around Europe and America. Works in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Western Art Museum of Tokio, etc.

«The most accentuated constant in my work is the search for unity through the synthesis between opposites, using different possible materials as cultural and historical suggestions». (G. Torner).