Alberto Torres Hernández Exhibition at Casa Vuota, Rome

Alberto Torres Hernández (born 1984, Seville) presents an exhibition in Rome featuring tempera works that explore the male nude within the academic tradition, referencing artists from Guido Reni to Ingres. His compositions juxtapose bare chests with still-life fragments, plants, and books, including Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and Stendhal's 'Love,' the latter bearing a portrait of the Countess d'Haussonville by Ingres. Torres Hernández uses tempera as a talismanic medium, layering it to capture the painter's soul and the erotic charge of the model. The interplay between sitter and artist is revealed in the material surface, with embroidered threads on fresh sheets tracing their silhouettes, emphasizing the work as a prolonged agreement between poser and immortalizer. The exhibition is reviewed by Giorgia Basili.