Erasmo Torres

I paint what remains when an image begins to disappear.

My work starts from a simple idea: perception is never complete. We look, remember and reconstruct, but something is always missing.

Through painting and drawing, I remove information rather than trying to describe everything. I simplify figures, erase context, distort familiar forms and allow accidents, mistakes and empty areas to remain visible. I am interested in the moment when an image becomes difficult to identify but somehow continues to feel familiar.

The sources change from one series to another. They can come from memory, anonymous photographs, popular culture or images that have already been reproduced and transformed many times. What interests me is not the original reference itself, but what survives after it has been filtered through perception and painting.

I see painting as a form of reconstruction. The less information I provide, the more space there is for the viewer to complete the image through their own memories and associations.

For me, the work does not end with the painting. It ends differently for every person who looks at it.

The viewer brings the final piece.

2020 — Master’s Degree in Painting
University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Faculty of Fine Arts, Leioa, Spain

2017 — Master’s in Fine Art, Painting
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

2016 — Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts
University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM), Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 — Batea Fuerte Merrill!, Bardeblás, Burgos, Spain.
2025 — Quemaito2, Kafka, Burgos, Spain.
2024 — Quemaito, Código UBU, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
2023 — Enter The Void, Paradise, Burgos, Spain.
2021 — H****A P**A T*E, LaFigaTaTia, Burgos, Spain.
2019 — Prepostpectiva, La casa de las Musas, Burgos, Spain.
2018 — El puente, UCLM, Cuenca, Spain.
2017 — AAAAAAAA,AAA,AAAAAAAAAAAAA, UCLM, Cuenca, Spain.
2016 — DELAHORAALPRESENTE, UCLM, Cuenca, Spain.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 — Cantar de Mío Cid, Monasterio de San Juan, Burgos, Spain.
2025 — ARTE25GAMONAL, Casa de Cultura de Gamonal, Burgos, Spain.
2023 — Trashday, LIMBO STUDIO, Burgos, Spain.
2021 — Grano a grano, Burgos, Spain.
2019 — EXPOLON, Burgos, Spain.
2017 — Serendipias, Torrearte, Torremocha de Jarama, Spain.
2016 — La situación, UCLM, Cuenca, Spain.

SELECTED ONLINE / CURATORIAL RECOGNITION

2016–present — Saatchi Art, international online portfolio; selected for a Saatchi Art curated collection.

SELECTED PRESS & FEATURES

2024 — Cadena SER / Radio Castilla, feature on Quemaito.
2022 — Fundación Caja de Burgos, artist feature, El Camino de Santiago en 38 milímetros.
2021 — El correo de Burgos, artist feature on H****A ...