The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia hosts the presentation of the book Salvador Victoria. Painting is the music of the spheres, of the art theorist and critic Alfonso de la Torre (Madrid, 1960), together with the composer and visual artist Joan Gómez Alemany (Valencia, 1990) in a colloquium that will take place next Thursday, 23 of April (International Book Day), at 12 hours. The event will have the participation of the director of the Valencian Museum, Pablo González Tornel; the Honorary President of the Salvador Victoria Foundation-Museum, by Rubielos de Mora (Teruel) and widow of Salvador Victoria, Marie-Claire Decay; the editor, writer, musician and author of the prologue, Josep Lluís Galiana, and the authors of the book.
Salvador Victoria Marz (Rubielos de Mora, 1928 – Alcalá de Henares, 1994), key figure of Spanish abstract art, is the central axis of this book written by Alfonso de la Torre and Joan Gómez Alemany. Salvador Victoria. Painting is the music of the spheres, recently published by the Valencian publishing label EdictOràlia, in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Cuenca through the Antonio Pérez Foundation (FAP), brings together a varied selection of texts made by De la Torre among 2008 y 2025. It is preceded by an extensive unpublished essay by Gómez Alemany, which serves as an introduction to the whole and offers, from a perspective of your musical knowledge, a novel reading of Victoria's work.
