A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind.
“We’re repulsed by this opulence,” said one of its creators, Einar de la Torre.
“But we’re also thinking: ‘God, I wish I’d been invited to this party.’”The brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre create mixed-media works of dazzling complexity.
Pre-Columbian deities, Mexican lucha libre wrestlers, Olmec heads, Slavic water spirits — the de la Torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic.
The brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and “good taste.”
Persons:
“ We’re, ”, Einar de la, we’re, I’d, ’ ”, Einar, Jamex, Torre, Torres
Organizations:
Art Museum, Einar de la Torre, Mexican lucha
Locations:
San Antonio, Mexican