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Abel Torres
Multidisciplinary artista
Born in Lima, Peru, in April 1975. He has been creating paintings and drawings since birth, inspired by comics, magazines, music and TV.
Studied Graphic Design and Painting at the “Escuela de Bellas Artes”, Lima, Peru
Academic training has been supplemented by teaching himself through direct knowledge, travelling and real life experiences.
Visual artist, designer, photographer and DJ.
Has travelled extensively through Peru and South America and has researched the culture and art in each place, learning different creative techniques, getting to know people and learning about local customs and ways of living.
Studied painting, graffiti art, collage, circus and music in Brazil, Columbia and Ecuador as well as workshop in Yoga and art therapy.
Artistic evolution has passed through different stages to reach the style that now defines his work and continues to change.
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Uses different techniques like collage, screen printing, graffiti, photography, poetry, body art, digital imagery, stickers, action painting, intervention, urban art..
Finding bridges that unite different creative energies.
Inspired by everything around him, nature, daily life, dreams, sacred plants, life, social justice, people and the internet
His creations are full of symbols, signs, drawings, personalities and visions that are mixed with indigenous art, optical art, popular culture. incan culture, pre incan cultures and images from other world cultures.
Mixing the ancient and the model, figurative with abstract and creating a unique and original style.
His works go from playful to spiritual. They seak about internal knowledge, cosmo vision, cultural roots, migration and the working class, identity and being.
Currently developing different art, fashion, visual anthrapological, and social projects with differente workshops with interrelated arts.
“Creativity and art are the best tools to generate processes of integration, development, understanding and social inclusion.”
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