A book with unpublished texts on Joaquín Torres García is presented in Uruguay.

With unpublished texts by authors from his country of birth as well as from Spain, Argentina and the United States , the presentation of the book Joaquín Torres García: Modern Universal Classic closed the activities for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joaquín Torres García in Uruguay.

This was emphasized by the director of the museum located in the Old City of the Uruguayan capital, Alejandro Díaz, during the presentation of the book, conceived as a catalog of the exhibition of the same name with which the Torres García Museum celebrated the artist born in Montevideo in 1874.

"The celebration of Torres García's 150th anniversary was a long-held dream for the Torres García Foundation, and the strategy was to involve as many people and institutions as possible so that it would truly be a collective celebration," explained the great- grandson of the creator of Constructive Universalism.

According to Díaz, it was along these lines that the Foundation founded by the artist's widow, Manolita Piña, in 1986, approached various museums, galleries, and cultural institutions both within and outside the River Plate region to join the celebration with exhibits, talks, and tributes.

A year after the anniversary—July 28—he highlighted that nine exhibitions related to the artist and his School of the South were held in Uruguay , and that activities were also held in Buenos Aires, Córdoba (Argentina), Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia.

"This catalog is also a product of that synergy with the ecosystem of people who research it , who love it, who study it," he noted regarding the book, which, he said, brings together texts by ten authors of different nationalities: three from Uruguay, three from Spain, one from Argentina, and one from the United States.

On a day in which the Museum also offered a guided tour of the exhibition, which features drawings from the Foundation's archives that have never been shown before and which occupies three of the building's four floors, two of the researchers, Uruguayan Gabriel Peluffo Linari and Spaniard Víctor García, spoke at the book presentation.

Regarding his contribution to the book, which includes, among others, a text by journalist Concepción Moreno focusing on the history of the house "Mon Repòs" that the artist built in Terrassa, in the province of Barcelona (Spain) for his family, the Uruguayan architect and historian said that it focused on the "signary" of Torres García.

In his presentation, Peluffo asserted that the artist's "great obsession" was "holistic knowledge" or the "ontology of the whole," and that to achieve this, he devoted himself to a study of pre-Hispanic cultures that reinforced the theoretical foundations behind his Constructive Universalism.