Antonio Llorens

Llorens was an artist and graphic designer from Uruguay. He belonged to the Grupo de Arte No-Figurativo (1952) of which both José Pedro Costigliolo and Maria Freire were founding members. Llorens used his precision as a graphic designer and successfully translated this onto canvas, painting geometric forms. He also formed part of Grupo MADI, a movement founded and lead by Carmelo Arden Quin, Gyula Kosice and Rodolfo Uricchio in 1946 in Buenos Aires. This group broke with traditional compositional rules and extended its activity literally beyond the frame of the painting. Llorens exhibited at the second and third São Paulo Biennial in 1953 and 1955 respectively.