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texto Miguel Fernández-Cid. Diario 16 Madrid  5 diciembre 1990 
LA MIRADA ACTUAL
martes, 2 de junio de 2015
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949), ella  ha realizado una Exposición Retrospectiva con el título de Geometría, Color y Musicalidad diagramas digitales y pintura 1991-2015, en el Centro Municipal de exposiciones de la ciudad de Elche-Elx. 
Julia Sáez-Angulo, vicepresidenta de la Asociación Madrileña de Críticos de Arte, AMCA, y miembro de la Internacional AECA/Spain, escribe en el catálogo: 
Geometría, Color y Musicalidad, son tres conceptos de la  euritmia que se desprende de la obra artística de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. 
Geometría en la que se aprecia el ritmo de una musicalidad  visible a los ojos, inaudible, solo en apariencia. Ella dibuja el ritmo danzante de una musicalidad que se manifiesta en la sabia administración del color sobre el soporte de papel, lienzo…geometría que danza; una musicalidad que se expresa en el color. Ya Kandinsky habló de ello cuando atribuyó notas musicales a los colores. Mirar los sonidos, escuchar el color. 

Desde la década de los 90 ella, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES tiene una trayectoria coherente de investigación en el Arte Geométrico, pintura, escultura y los diagramas digital, desde sus obras, Trazado Espacial Continuo y Combinables a El Hilo de Ariadne, la geometría, el color, el ritmo y la musicalidad están presentes en un mundo creativo de líneas, círculos, cuadrados, píxeles... diseñado por una mente artística. Sin dejar la pintura, ella utiliza los nuevos medios tecnológicos, los cuales son fundamentales en la generación de sus innovadoras obras geométricas.
Geometría, Color y Musicalidad, es la clave conceptual que describe la obra geométrica digital y pictórica de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Las líneas trazadas en el espacio cuadrado, horizontes que se expanden en cartografías de la musicalidad, expresan, en la geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, una  percepción de ella de diversos países, continentes, o ciudades: MUSICALITY-Sweden-Madrid-Latinoamérica-Berlin-NewYork-MumbaiBombay-Beiying-Europa-GreeceGrecia-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Brooklyn-Africa-Universe
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, en 1965 ella ingresa y estudia Profesorado de Dibujo en la Academia Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid  y en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  Ella residió en Madrid  hasta 1997 y después residió en Londres, donde ella fue artista invitada en Gasworks Studios, London, y desde mediados de 1999 ella reside en Alicante. En 2000 volvió a Londres para realizar una exposición en Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College, London. En 2003 ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES presentó su investigación de geometría, El hilo de Ariadna-Combinatoria, con los nuevos medios digitales. Arte geométrico: cien obras de (200x100 cm.each) para la Colección de Arte del Hotel H. Amerigo, Alicante.
En sus pinturas de Trazado Espacial Continuo, ella, la pintora ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES resalta cada pincelada en una afirmación de la energía, líneas en pinceladas de gesto único, singular cada una de las líneas en la trayectoria meditativa de los ritmos en gradaciones de color en los cuadrados de sus obras de Arte Geométrico y en las composiciones de geometría, de ella, con los nuevos medios digitales, los PIXELS constituyen la estructura de las líneas.
Pulicado por Julia Saez Angulo y Dolores Gallardo en L.M.A.
2015.Texto en catalogo, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, en Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015
ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES (EICHE 1949), desenreda el Hilo de Ariadna a través de una combinatoria óptica impregnada por la aleatoriedad cibernética, código expresado en líneas que contrastan con la presencia inmutable de los cuadrados en cuanto grado cero y referencia a lo esencial, destilando un gran lirísmo, las vibraciones del  color y la armonía del  equilibrio se complementan.
texto Simón Marchán Fiz, Catedrático de Estética y Teoría del Arte, Facultad de Filosofía, UNED MADRID.
La expansión de la pintura en las auras frías  texto Catálogo. Exposición XVII Edición Premio de Pintura L'OREAL. Centro Cultural  Conde Duque. Madrid 2001
La Pintura individual de Iluminada García-Torres                                                         
texto Miguel Fernández-Cid (1990)                                                                                                
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche 1949). Ella realiza una exposición en la Galería Albatros de Madrid. Unas de sus obras, tienen de motivo la escultura de mármol de Ariadne (Hilo intangible). "Iba al Museo del Prado pensando en una imagen que motivara mi mente y encontré esta escultura. Allí pinté la escultura en un lienzo frente a esta y después en otro lienzo la pinté como si la escultura estuviera mirando al infinito... y sé que volveré a interpretar a esta Ariadne, porque me resulta imposible olvidar su perfección, su armonía, su control matemático".
Las pinturas de la escultura de Ariadne las realiza desde una interpretación, con el mar y un paisaje diluido. "Nací cerca del mar y, aunque a los dieciséis años vine a Madrid, a estudiar Bellas Artes, su presencia la tengo siempre cerca. Lo sé por la necesidad de incluir una línea del horizonte, una referencia al espacio en cada cuadro".        
El estilo de su pintura queda más patente en las obras en las que ella, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, con la idea y los elementos mínimos de una composición, deriva hacia fórmulas arquitectónicas. Morandi, la pintura metafísica de Giorgio de Chirico y los quattrocentistas no están lejos de su pintura. Con unas barras cilíndricas y una caja sobre una mesa ella pinta geometrías nítidas, pinturas de espacialidad. Vistos desde otra perspectiva, los mismos elementos semejan un laberinto, con una idea geométrica que evoca constantemente su pintura, "un objeto es distinto según cómo lo vemos, la cercanía de otro objeto lo modifica en nuestra percepción". ¿Cómo no entender que la pintura de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES es individual?.
Texto Miguel Fernández-Cid
Diario 16. Madrid 5-diciembre-1990
2015.Texto en catalogo, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, en Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015
 1990·pinturas by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES exposición GALERIA ALBATROS MADRID 1990 
COMBINABLES
J. Antonio Lisbona (1993)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949). Ella permaneció  pensativa observando la potencia y sutileza de una escultura que se encuentra en la Rotonda de la Sala de las Musas del Museo del Prado. Era la escultura de mármol de Ariadna, la escultura que el pintor Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) trajo de Roma para el rey Felipe IV y que el propio Velázquez la pintaría en Roma, en el lienzo de 44x38cm, Vista del jardín de la Villa Medicis-El mediodía.

ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, en el museo del Prado interpretó esta escultura de mármol de Ariadna en dos pinturas desde 1986-88, y, lo  realmente importante es que esta escultura de mármol daría razones a ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES para su futura obra geométrica.
Ahora presenta, sus recientes  trabajos de Arte Geométrico  en la Sala de Exposiciones CAM de Alicante, que se ha llevado la primicia de su propuesta, con el título de COMBINABLES, Trazado Espacial Continuo, obras que ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES,  también ha ido agrupando en tres cuadernos de investigación, laboriosos, concretos, matemática y geométrica disposición, el punto, las líneas, el cuadrado, color... El proceso sorprendía a la autora y la impulsaba, como en un relato de Jorge Luis Borges, en la infinitud inabarcable de la geometría y el color.

Ella pintó laberintos de formas cúbicas y cilíndricas en la superficie de unas mesas, composiciones de una aproximación a la obra de Morandi, que después ella los representaría con influencia arquitectónica en pinturas de gran formato. Este tema preludia la Geometría que de modo intensivo llegaría después en la creatividad artística de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.  En la escultura COMBINABLES mezcla cubos y cilindros de acero en equilibrada composición. Espacio, punto, líneas, números, estructuras, pinceladas, variantes, trazado, trayectoria, tecnología, pintura..., todos son vocablos y conceptos que la propia artista, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES ha escrito en los cuadernos y sobre el lienzo, poéticas pinceladas. Arte y formulación teórica realizadas al mismo tiempo.
COMBINABLES                                                                                                                         
J. Antonio Lisbona (1993)                                                                                                       
Espiral de las Artes nº 5-6 septiembre/octubre 1993 
combinables.blogspot.com 1993 
DIGITAL GEOMETRIC ART  by ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES
Selection of texts written by art critics of exhibitions made by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES of Geometric Art: Pictorial, Sculpture and DIGITAL Geometry that she started in 1991 with COMBINABLES and TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO  formulating continuous mathematics and geometry for hers works. Previously, she worked 25 years (1965-1990) in landscape painting, geometric architecture compositions and in the two paintings that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES made of the ARIADNE the marble sculpture (1986-88) in the MUSEUM of PRADO, MADRID (exhibition at the Galería Albatros, Madrid 1990).


 text Simón Marchán Fiz 
ILUMINADA  GARCIA-TORRES (EICHE 1949), she unravels Ariadne's Thread through an optical combinatorial impregnated by cybernetic randomness, a code expressed in lines that contrast with the unchanging presence of squares as zero grade and reference to the essentials, a great lyricism, color vibrations and harmony of balance complement each other.
text Simón Marchán Fiz (2001), Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Faculty of Philosophy UNED Madrid.
The expansion of painting in the cold auras text Catalog Exhibition XVII Edition Painting Prize L'OREAL. Conde Duque Cultural Center. Madrid 2001

LA MIRADA ACTUAL
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
02/06/15.- ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche 1949) she has made a Retrospective Exhibition with the title of Geometry, Color and Musicality, digital diagrams and painting 1991-2015, in the Municipal Exhibition Center of the city, Elche-Elx.
Julia Sáez-Angulo, vicepresident of the Madrid Association of Art Critics, AMCA, and member of the AECA / Spain International, writes in the catalog:
Geometry, Color and Musicality are three concepts of the eurythmy that emerges from the artistic work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
Geometry in which the rhythm of a musicality visible to the eyes is appreciated, inaudible, only in appearance.
She draws the dancing rhythm of a musicality that manifests herself in the wise administration of color on the support of paper, canvas ... geometry that dances; a musicality that is expressed in colors. Kandinsky already talked about it when he attributed musical notes to colors. Look at the sounds, hear the color.
Since the 90s she, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has a coherent research trajectory in Geometric Art, painting, sculpture and digital diagrams, from her works of Continuous Space Tracing and Combinables to El Hilo de Ariadna, geometry, color, rhythm and musicality are present in a creative world of lines, circles, squares, pixels ... designed by her artistic mind. Without leaving the painting, she uses the new technological means, which are fundamental in the generation of her innovative geometric artworks.
Geometry, Color and Musicality, is the conceptual key that describes the digital and pictorial geometrical work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
The lines drawn in the space reticular square, horizons that expand in cartographies of the musicality, express in the digital geometries of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES a perception of she at different countries, continents or cities: MUSICALITY-Sweden-Madrid-South America-Berlin -NewYork-MumbaiBombay-Beiying-Europe-GreeceGreece-Tokyo-Paris-Nepal-Brooklyn-Africa-Universe.                               
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in 1965 she ingress and studied Professor of Drawing at the Superior Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid and the Complutense University of Madrid. She lived in Madrid until 1997 and later in London, where she was a guest artist at Gasworks Studios of London, and since mid-1999 she resides in Alicante. In 2000 she returned to London to make an exhibition at Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College in London.                                                                                                                               

In 2003 ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES presented her geometry research, El hilo de Ariadna-Combinatoria, with the new technological media. Geometric art: one hundred works (200x100 cm.each) for the Art Collection of Hotel H. Amerigo, Alicante.                      In her Continuous Spatial  Drawings, she, the painter ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES highlights each brushstroke in an affirmation of the energy, lines in brushstrokes of unique gesture, singular each  of the lines in the meditative trajectory  of rhythms in color gradations in the squares of her works in Geometric Art, and in the geometry compositions of she, with the new digital media, the PIXELS  constitute the structure of the lines.
Published  by Julia Saez Angulo y Dolores Gallardo en L.M.A.
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015

​SOUNDS OF PAINTING (2004)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, (Elche, Alicante, 1949) she  has made a decided commitment to Geometric Art, developing orthogonally organized shapes and colors. Following paths opened by the geometric Kandinsky of the German Bauhaus, author of POINT AND LINE ON THE PLANO, and Dutch Neoplasticism, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES understands hers painting and hers sculpture as a mathematical system of proportions and geometric shapes.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES achieves to formulate, in 1991, a basic reticular module of squares, where she drew the points and lines. This module will be the beginning of future experimentation in Geometric Art. 
A geometric and mathematical cosmos, that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES considers independent worlds, but participants in the totality. They are perfectly calculated according to systems of proportion in their measurements. These forms signify the concept of the full and empty. The relation between full spaces and empty spaces is dialectically dynamic, because it generates multiple variations, determined by the color, shape, number, and direction of the lines. We are, therefore, before an interactive space that generates an integrating harmony of all the geometric elements in the composition, with effects close to the Optical art.
The thread of Ariadne, is the generic name that has adopted to denominate to hers works, inspired in the marble sculpture of Ariadna of the Museum of the Prado, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES 
discovered in this marble (1987) an harmony of geometric and mathematical order that went to preside over your future work. The space research has been formally complicating his proposals with a multiplication of sequences of rhythmic sequences, parallel to the world of music, pictorial geometries that she calls Continuous Space Path. From this proposal hers work is incorporated into the new technologies applicable to the art of painting.
The recent works of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES offer us geometries of infinite development thanks to the combinatorial of color and the process of the image generated by computer where the brushstroke is now structured by the pixel (picture element), dot in a rectilinear grid of points to form a geometric digital image.
With this digital process of the image, she has made the geometries of the present exhibition Música y Arte II. They constitute the beginning of a new series whose dot of expansion is musicality.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has been able to see and work on the aesthetic aspects offered by the graphics of the musical notation. The pentagram or tetragram constitute the linear structure where the musical "signs" are deposited, she tries to evoke the true graphia, which allows it to develop formal investigations related to Optical art and suggest virtual movements.
Text by Laura Sanz García (2004) Carlos III University of Madrid
Pascual Patuel Chust University of Valencia
SOUNDS OF PAINTING  Exhibition catalog Música y Arte II.      
Palau de la Música of Valencia 2004
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015

PIXELS (2003)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949), she in this exhibition presents her work of Digital Geometric Art, El Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria, a research with new technological media. The result is innovative, rigorous and coherent that we can observe in the evolution of hers work, whose genesis is in the pictorial work of hers teacher Antonio López García and from which her assimilated the measure and direct-gesture.
In the observation of the sublime marble sculpture of Ariadna that she discovered in the Prado Museum (1984), ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES tries to armonize her creative Thread to get herself the labyrinth of her artistic capacity.
Geometry in the plane and in the space that in something  would assimilate of the teachings that she received from the also Alicante artist, Eusebio Sempere.
The lines drawn, made in a dynamic way, of a single gesture, in relation of proportionality with space reticular, mathematics and geometry, time and light. And the origin of Trazado Espacial Continuo Continuous Spatial Drawings has been for more than a decade in the geometry of hers work Combinables.
That is why in the artworks of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES we contemplate geometries that can be multiplied infinitely thanks to the combinatorial of color and digital processes, which are possible by linking their Geometry research with the new technological advances of science computer.
She draws, from the point, original singular gestural lines in the reticular space, in rhythmic sequences, that in this work of Digital Geometric Art, the pixels constituting of the new structure of the line.
This exhibition, belonging to the hundred works of geometry (digital printing on canvas 90x180cm each) which constitute the Amerigo Collection, can be seen in Alicante at the Hotel of the same name, where the geometries designed by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES will show us a world of harmonies fused with the Mediterranean light, where the azure and marine blue, the earth and solar ocher, and the violet tones of an alborear of the horizon prevail, which is the line from which all forms emerge.
PÍXELES, La Huella del Trazo (2003)
(2003) Text by Joaquín Santo Matas - Director of the Alicante Institute of Culture Juan Gil-Albert. Catalog exhibition El Hilo de Ariadna - Combinatoria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de las Artes. Alicante 2003
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015

Entre el uno, el dos y el tres                                                                                                         
(2001)
... are obsessively drawn lines in which ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949) meditates the rhythms that emerge in the trajectory of its layout in relation of proportionality with the space of the square modules in hers works of  Geometric Art. Modules that according to her, contain laws of harmony. It could be a rational, thoughtful composition, and in fact it is in principle. But observing each line it is evident that they do not respond to a unifying system. On the contrary, they confirm: the absolute difference of each one of the lines with the rest of those that are placed in the picture. With all the lines of the paintings that make up the series. Of all the series of lines started at the beginning of the 90s. Of  all the painted lines of the world.
It is evident, albeit in a subtle way, the instant of its production; a time of the painting that purport to drag with him the time of perception. The transmission of emotions.
In the lines of the modules arranged tidily in the paintings made by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, the different degrees of emotion, tension, tranquility, enthusiasm, distancing... from the moment of painting are glimpsed. Already raised it, albeit in an ironic way, Lichtenstein when he designed his large-format brushstroke with bendéi points. And it is the praise of that brushstroke, in which with hers lines insists ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Sometimes at great brushstrokes, anothers  as in a mantra. In numerous and small lines. With the rhetoric of repetition. But also more surprising.
A year ago in a ceramic workshop organized by the CAPA Foundation, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, experiments in the three dimensions, she presented some first investigations of the limits, which she had already done in sculpture. What happens in the limits? From a wave to an angle, for example. Fundamental considerations in Geometric Art.Numbers are there to infinity. But, if you want to understand it, you need to analyze the infinite relation between 1, 2 and 3.
text catalog Isabel Tejeda Martín 2001
Exhibition, trazado espacial continuo-hilo de ariadna, pintura 2001                      
combinables-palabras geométricas, cerámica 2001 by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES          
12 mayo-20 junio 2001 Casa de Cultura El Campello (Alicante)

GEOMETRIAS (1996)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949 Elche, Alicante), she is, painter. And of -hers work and the way of undertaking this- we could say that it is a rationalization, sensitivity and expression in the Geometric Art. To realized hers work ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES establishes a previous Geometric  order, very concrete and precise, -square matrix-, divided into other twenty-five exact and equal, as a grid, defined by lines or points; which in turn can be subdivided.
Mathematical disposition that will direct the initiation and realization of hers work. The beginning of the –pictorial action- becomes an event, an extraordinary and unique fact that modifies the established and conditions the development of the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. And the painting is full of infinite possibilities - lines expressed with the law of verticality and horizontality and in proportionality with the dimensions of the squares. For example, the painting can only be the structure, as a regularized surface; or be arranged in sections; or -the square matrix- contain squares of different dimensions, color, location and texture; or that on a color with different gradations juxtapose other forms of color and establish new interactions, etc.
Hers brushstrokes, of the painter ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, are lines of color with dimensions in proportion to the surfaces of the squares, in a single gesture -meditated- each one of the brush strokes made, an echo of herself with its emotional poetic . And also an event, which determines the quality of the successive brushstroke.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES necessarily draws from the sensitivity, which requires a preparation, tense attitude and meditative attention in the realization of the linear brushstrokes. The picture as she is painting it changes, and she, the painter, is there to decide the next action pictorial.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, does not consider the edges as the end of the work, allowing it to continue. Fortunately, she conceives each painting as a possible part of a more complex whole; and in consequence, the linear edge is a provisional limit. Because the basic structure is, the square, studied in the spatial modulation that is produced in its subdivision or the sum of geometric squares  -as she formulates it in her theoretical reflections (1991)-, and to constitute a theoretically infinite work. That requires the systematic application of the concept so that each work of Geometric Art maintains its potential development. An undoubted risk, although full of interest, that would give the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES an innovative dimension.
(1996)Text by Segundo G. Manzanet, Director Museum Asegurada, MACA. Exhibition Catalog GEOMETRIAS / ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Institute of Culture Juan Gil-Albert, University of Alicante 1996, MUA. Exhibition Alicante, November 6-26, 1996. Casa de Cultura de Villena, January 24-February 16, 1997.

COMBINABLES                                                                                                           
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949). She remained pensive observing the power and subtlety of a sculpture that is in the Rotunda of the Hall of the Muses of the Prado Museum. It was the marble sculpture of Ariadna, the sculpture that the painter Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) brought from Rome to King Felipe IV and that Velázquez himself would paint it in Rome in the canvas of 44x38 cm, View of the garden of the Villa Medicis-Noon.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, at the Museo del Prado interpreted this marble sculpture of Ariadna in two paintings from 1986-88, what is really important is that this marble sculpture would give reasons to ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES for his future work geometric.
Now he presents hers recent works of Geometric Art in the Exhibition Hall CAM of Alicante, which has taken the scoop of her proposal, with the title of COMBINABLES, Continuous Space Path, works that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, has also been grouped in three research notebooks, laborious, concrete, mathematical and geometric arrangement, the point, the lines, the square, color ... The process surprised the author and impelled her as in a story by Jorge Luis Borges, in the boundless infinity of geometry and color.
She painted labyrinths of cubic and cylindrical forms on the surface of some tables, compositions of an approach to the work of Morandi, which later she would represent with architectural influence in large-format paintings. This theme preludes the geometry that would intensively come later in the artistic creativity of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. In the sculpture COMBINABLES mixes cubes and cylinders of steel in balanced composition. Space, point, lines, numbers, structures, brushstrokes, variants, layout, trajectory, technology, painting ..., all are words and concepts that the artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has written in the notebooks and on the canvas poetic brushstrokes. Art and theoretical formulation made at the same time.
​COMBINABLES text by J. Antonio Lisbona (1993)
Espiral de las Artes num.5-6 September / October 1993

FASCINATION FOR SPACE
The CAM of Alicante has offered in its exhibition hall on Oscar Esplá Avenue 37, an exhibition of GEOMETRIC ART by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE1949) which since the mid 60s has studied and lives in Madrid.
She offers us paintings from her first realistic period of metaphysical influence. And paintings and  a sculpture of her new stage of geometric art that presents precisely in Alicante.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES is fascinated by space, and she hypothesizes with two basic elements in her work, the square and the circle, the cube and the cylinder. In the previous, realistic paintings, we notice, however, certain evolution towards the geometric shape and the space that makes us to reflect on solitude, on silence, on our own soul: and the wonderful painting that she made (1987) of the marble sculpture of Ariadne, looking towards the infinite. From this work ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, realize her new works in geometric art, to paintings constructed with lines and dots, with rectangles that have been painted in a single stroke, and, thus, none is the same, they are all different. Identity, repetition and diversity at the same time. Continuing with the squares, the cubic and cylindrical structure, with the mathematical accuracy of the measurements, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, realizes the projects for hers sculptural works. But in addition to creating painting and sculpture, she composes with the words.
​And, most importantly, the integral proposal in the Geometric Art by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES for the realization of her works, emerges from the same mathematical concept that she has transcribed in the excellent catalog of the exhibition.                             
FASCINACION POR EL ESPACIO                                                                                 text by María Carmen Africa Vidal Claramonte (1993)
Diario Información. Alicante 10-june-1993
​​
... It is the Ariadne sculpture of the Museo del Prado, the marble sculpture that Velázquez brought from Rome and that he painted in his magnificent paintings of "Villa Médicis", the one that has inspired to ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche1949) to draw Labyrinths in the Geometric Art.
She recovers in her paintings a metaphysics of space and form; of the transit with light and thought.  
It can be done to transcend the simplest image if the brushstroke and the mind are able to raise it to the category level.
This is what happens with hers pictorial compositions of cylindrical and cubic forms of reflecting light. They silence or reveal codes.
The immense risk of starting over the waves
Text catalog Rosa Martínez de Lahidalga (1990)
Exhibition paintings by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
Galería Albatros. Madrid 1990
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GASWORKS STUDIOS, LONDON
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Spain)
1 December 1998 - 1 March 1999
This is the first time you will see the work of the visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES in the United Kingdom. During her residency at Gasworks, she has produced new works with the referent of the marble sculpture Ariadne at the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, I discovered that the harmony she evoked was fitted perfectly a geometric and mathematical pattern.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES seeks to achieve harmony through the expression of the moment, constituted by line-space-time within proportional relation with the square  reticle structures. The singularity of each line is a step towards Light. 
published by Alessio Antoniolli 1999 GASWORKS STUDIOS, LONDON
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015
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GEOMETRIC AND EMOTIONAL POETRY (2002)
It is not easy to respond to the arithmetic and orthogonal processes, of the poetry and sensitivity in the compositional contents in the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE1949). She makes in Geometric Art an expressive formulation centered almost specifically on the research of spatial ordering through the serial multiplication of the line in progression. In the relation and the consecutive evolution with the only trace of a mediatic line in the space, or what is the same, through the drawing of a line, she manages to reach the metaphysical purpose of the creative eagerness.
The arithmetic and emotional poetry in the work of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has that consubstantial truth that responds to a pristine and essential fact endowed with a metaphysical transcendence capable of altering any philosophical conjecture. Art transcending through arithmetic formulas and rhythmic spatial sequences that she describes.
Iconography where the continuous module, the coherent mathematical variation dominates the visuality, demands, at least, a reflection on the mathematical painting and the balanced spatial orders. And this inevitably leads us to the stream of Stilj, Mondrian, Rietveld authors who understood that in geometry and spatial arrangement by means of balanced flat chromatic or compositional icons, rational orders could be established in the argumentation of their proposals.
Processes in the elaboration of those gestural lines support of the works. A fact of transcendence if we understand the Geometric  Art of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES from her creativity, with the congregation of all these expressive singularities that she has in geometric poetry.
Certainly the iconography transcribed in the paintings of the artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES may correspond to the genuine calligraphic material of the geometric repertoire of the square reticular and the music of arithmetic in their interactions.
Composition based on the repetitive modular beauty of the line and the quadrangular geometric grid, capable of claiming expansion, limitlessness and affirmation once the gestures drawn from the mathematical variable are the agents of the resulting harmonies, We have understand a very special expressiveness in the works of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES that she gives in the accuracy of the brushstroke in the discursive process of a meditative calligraphic order.
A pristine pictorial expression, based on the measure, the gesture the compositional rhythms, the formal transition, the chromatic vibration, the metaphysical transcendence. The geometry and arithmetic as a determining reason.
GEOMETRIC AND EMOTIONAL POETRY
text by José Manuel Alvarez Enjuto,2002
Exhibition catalog of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES.
THE THREAD OF ARIADNA 1991-2002
30/04 - 28/05, 2002, Municipal Exhibition Lonja del Pescado. Alicante

STRUCTURES OF HARMONY (2005)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche, Alicante, 1949) she in her recent artwork exhibit a long trajectory of Geometric Art with, The thread of Ariadna-combinatorial, where the results derived from one of the most important issues in history are reached of art: the search for a basic harmony and order that beats in human nature. Establishing order and proportion in art means giving an intellectual and conscious direction to a subconscious impulse.
Modern psychology defends the hypothesis that the search for order on which beauty is based is something inherent to our identity as rational beings, and in that situation our interpretation of nature is predominantly mathematical. In these circumstances, the new technologies are used by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES to make use of their lines and brushstrokes as the basic material of her artworks and as a point of reflection of it, using as a matter of creation the formal elements and conceptuals.

Einstein affirmed that there is no logical way to discover the elementary laws; according to him there is only the path of intuition. The perception of the order behind appearances, its musicality, is something that is intuited by the visual artist ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Consequently, her works could be conceived as structures of the harmony related in mathematical lines. The paintings and digital geometry  of the work of Iluminada García-Torres is founded  on an irrefutable truth of numbers and proportions that seem to reveal  in some way the pre-established harmony.
text Lino Cabezas Gelabert (2005) Professor at the University of Barcelona.        
La Rella Magazine Nº 18.
Anuari de l'Institut d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix Vinalopó 2005 Elx. Elche​
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The  individual Painting of Iluminada García-Torres                                                          
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Elche 1949), she makes an exhibition at the Galería  Albatros in Madrid. Some of hers works have as motif the marble sculpture of Ariadne (intangible Thread). "I went to the Prado Museum thinking about an image that motivates my mind and I found this sculpture. There I painted the sculpture in a canvas facing it and then en another canvas as if the sculpture were looking at infinity... and I know I will return to interpret this Ariadne again, because I find it impossible to forget her perfection, her harmony, her mathematical control".
The paintings of the sculpture of Ariadne she made from an interpretation, with the sea and a diluted landscape. "I was born near the sea and, although at the age of sixteen, I came to Madrid to study Fine Arts, I always have his presence close by, I know it because of the need to include a horizon line, a reference to space in each painting".
The style of her painting is more evident in the works in which she, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES with the idea and the minimum elements of a composition, it drifts towards architectural formulas. Morandi, the metaphysical painting of Giorgio de Chirico and quattrocentistas are not far from her painting. With a few cylindrical bars and a box on a table  she paints geometries sharp, spatiality paintings. Seen from another perspective, the same elements resemble a labyrinth, with a geometrical idea that constantly evokes her painting, "an object is different according to how we see it, the proximity of another object modifies it in our perception". How not to understand that the painting of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES is individual?.  
Text by Miguel Fernández-Cid
Diario 16. Madrid 5- december-1990
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015
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50 YEARS OF TRAJECTORY PICTORIAL AND DIGITAL GEOMETRY (2015) 
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (1949 Elche) celebrates 50 years of hers Pictorial work and Digital Geometric  Art.                                                                                          
It is in 1986, when the appointments, she paints the marble sculpture of Ariadna in the Prado Museum that she finds a new pictorial concept in her work. If the teachers of quantum physics, theory of everything, make hypotheses of the universe. The painter ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES discovered in the mythology of the Thread of Ariadna the point to develop in the Geometric Art and to find a full significance of her work.
The concepts that give name to the exhibition Geometry, Color and Musicality of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES encompass the extensive work, the intense dedication and the innovative research and reflection realized by her.
Each brushstroke of her has its mathematical reason and makes each line unique, of harmony in a lucid composition and combinatorial of color in turn incalculable, and Musicality, perhaps for the spectators of hers geometry works, is the creative apex, that feeling of musicality. A rhythm of vitality, eurythmy of shapes and color, which makes it possible to glimpse the whole geometric universe in equilibrium created by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES in hers paintings of Continuous Space Path and digital diagrams printed on canvas Ariadne's thread -Musicality in which she shows her perception of different cities, continents, countries ... - Sweden-Beijing-Africa- Madrid-Greece-New York -Mumbai Bombay-Europe-Tokyo- Paris-Brooklyn-Nepal-Berlin-Latin America-Universe- ... GEOMETRY, COLOR and MUSICALITY is an oxymoron of renewal in Geometric Art.
Text by Viviana Rodríguez Gimeno 2015                                                                                  
exhibition catalog Geometría, Color y Musicalidad                          
of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Municipal Exhibition Center of ELCHE 15may-06september 2015
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LA MIRADA ACTUAL January 4, 2014
Iluminada García-Torres investigates in her Digital Geometry, Mumbai Bombay. text by Julia Sáez-Angulo
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (ELCHE 1949) investigates in her Digital Geometry artworks that she denominate Mumbai Bombay, in wide view and reflection on Asia.
In fact all hers work in geometric abstraction begins with the proposal that she formulated in the catalog of her exhibition Combinables in 1993, where is the origin and the mathematical reason that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES has developed in the geometry digital works, Tokyo, Beijing and now Mumbai Bombay, in hers Asian contemplation. She declares that after the New York digital geometries, she became interested in Asia in concepts of musicality, color and though.
text by Julia Sáez-Angulo                         
International Association of Art Critics, AICA
2015.Text in catalog, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, in Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015

http://lamiradaactual.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/iluminada-garcia-torres-geometria-color.html

combinables.blogspot.com 1993 geometry
1993·exposición geometrías COMBINABLES Trazado Espacial Continuo, pinturas y escultura de acero (steel) 90x90x90cm by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, sala de exposiciones CAM Alicante, Avda Oscar Esplá 37, 20 mayo-9 junio 1993
1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante. 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 
among-lines.blogspot.com
1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante. 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 

2002·Escultura COMBINABLES Eje Energético, bronce y acero (bronze-steel) by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (Fundición Capa, Madrid 2001) Plaza de San Juan, Centro Municipal exposiciones de ELCHE
 2002·Tomás Martínez Blasco Arquitecto y Académico. La Escultura de la Plaza de San Juan, ELCHE (COMBINABLES bronce-acero (bronze-steel) by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Diario Información. 10-11-2002
among-lines.blogspot.com
 
2002· Exposición  EL HILO DE  ARIADNA 1991-2002 de Iluminada Garcia-Torres

1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante. 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 
1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 
1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante. 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 
1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante. 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 
2003·by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (digital geometría 90x180cm) El Hilo de Ariadna-Combinatoria 4N-7. Catálogo Colección Hotel H. Amerigo, exposición en Centro Municipal  de las Artes, Alicante 2003
1982-2009 Retrospectiva ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, catálogo exposición en Castillo Santa Bárbara, Alicante. 6 octubre-29 noviembre, 2009 
thethreadofariadne-music.blogspot.com 2004MÚSICA 
http://lamiradaactual.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/iluminada-garcia-torressonidos-de-la.html
ARTE DIGITAL 2004
Iluminada García-Torres, pintora que lleva doce años investigando en una serie geométrica denominada El Hilo de Ariadna, fue la diseñadora seleccionada para conformar, con un centenar de obras de arte digital geometría (impresion digital sobre lienzo 90x180 cm each c/u), la colección Amérigo para la ornamentación de este hotel en Alicante, un cinco estrellas en medio de la ciudad. Iluminada García-Torres estudió en la Academia Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid) y Universidad Complutense  fue discípula de Antonio López García. Entre los premios recibidos destaca  la selección continuada en el concurso de Pintura de L´Oreal Arte Contemporáneo, ser artista invitada para exponer en Gasworks Studios y Hortensia Art Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College London, etc. Hace tres años realizó una rotunda escultura normativa en acero y bronce, para un espacio urbano en Elche, su ciudad natal. En sus comienzos pictóricos trabajó la pintura realista y metafísica, pero I. García-Torres evolucionó hacia un arte geométrico y combinatorio de color, líneas que traza de modo dinámico, con un solo gesto, manteniendo una proporcionalidad en el espacio del cuadrado, en una relación matemática y geométrica, de tiempo y luz. Era el punto final y de arranque al pintar la escultura de Ariadna, que se encuentra en la rotonda de cristales del Museo del Prado. 
El Semanal Digital nº 615. Madrid 30-10-2004
Julia Sáez-Angulo
Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte, AICA

Iluminada García-Torres, Exposición retrospectiva en el Castillo de Santa Bárbara

SONIDOS DE LA PINTURA  (2004)
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, (Elche, Alicante, 1949) ha hecho una apuesta decidida por arte geométrico, desarrollando formas y colores organizados ortogonalmente. Siguiendo caminos­ ya abiertos por el Kandinsky geométrico de la época de la Bauhaus alemana, autor de PUNTO Y LÍNEA SOBRE EL PLANO, y el Neoplasticismo holandés, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES entiende su pintura y su escultura como un sistema matemático de proporciones y formas geométricas.
ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES logra formular, en 1991, un módulo reticular básico de cuadrados, donde dibujó los puntos y líneas. Este módulo será el comienzo de una futura experimentación en Arte Geométrico.
Un cosmos geométrico y matemático, que  ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES considera mundos independientes, pero partícipes de la totalidad. Están perfectamente calculadas con sistemas de proporción en sus medidas.  Estas formas  significan el concepto de lo lleno y  vacío. La relación entre espacios llenos y espacios vacíos es dinámica, porque genera múltiples variaciones, determinadas por el color, la forma, el número, la dirección, de las líneas. Estamos, pues, ante un espacio interactivo que genera una armonía  integradora de todos los elementos geométricos en la composición, con efectos cercanos al Optical art.
El hilo de Ariadna, es el nombre genérico que ha adoptado para denominar a sus obras, inspiradas en la escultura de  mármol de Ariadna del Museo del Prado, ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES descubrió en este mármol (1987) una armonía de orden geométrico y matemático que iba a presidir su trabajo futuro.  La investigación del espacio ha ido complicando formalmente sus propuestas con una multiplicación de seriaciones de secuencias rítmicas, paralelas al mundo de la música, geometrías pictóricas que ella denomina Trazado Espacial Continuo. Desde esta propuesta su obra se incorpora a las nuevas tecnologías aplicables al arte de la pintura.
Las recientes obras de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES nos ofrecen geometrías de desarrollo infinito gracias a las combinatorias de color y los procesos de la imagen generada por computer sciencie donde  la pincelada está estructurada ahora por el píxel (picture element), punto en una rejilla rectilínea de puntos para formar una imagen digital geométrica.
Con este proceso digital de la imagen ha realizado ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES las geometrías de la presente exposición Música y Arte II. Constituyen el inicio de una nueva serie cuyo punto de expansión es la musicalidad. Esta artista ha sabido ver y trabajar los aspectos estéticos que ofrecen los grafismos de la notación musical. El pentagrama o tetragrama constituyen la estructura lineal donde deposita los "signos" musicales, en el intento de evocar la verdadera grafía, que le permite a ella, de nuevo, desarrollar investigaciones vinculadas al Optical art y sugerir movimientos virtuales.
Texto de Laura Sanz García (2004) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pascual Patuel Chust  Universitat de Valencia                 
SONIDOS DE LA PINTURA  Catálogo exposición Música y Arte II. Palau de la Música de Valencia 2004.
2015.Texto en catalogo, exhibition GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD geometría digital de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, en Centro Municipal de exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15may- 6september 2015  
2007· catálogo VI Muestra de Arte Electrónico de Móstoles - MAEM 07, MADRID.  ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES participa en la exposición MAEM 07.
2007· catálogo exposición MAEM 07, EL HILO DE ARIADNA- MÚSICA pixels geometria by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (impresión digital sobre lienzo 200x100cm)  VI Muestra de Arte Electrónico de Móstoles - MAEM 07, MADRID.
2015·Texto Julia Sáez-Angulo para la exposición  GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD, EL HILO DE ARIADNA MUSICALIDAD- LATINOAMERICA 16Cç-MADRID 7cç-MUMBAI BOMBAY 10Cç by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES (geometrias digital print  on  canvas 150x50cm each), Centro Municipal Exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15 mayo-6 septiembre 2015
2015·exposición  GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD,   
EL HILO DE ARIADNA - MUSICALIDAD- MADRID 12Acvby ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES, (geometries digital print on canvas 195x97cm) Centro Municipal Exposiciones de ELCHE-ELX, 15 mayo-6 septiembre 2015
2015·Textos Catálogo exposición GEOMETRIA, COLOR y MUSICALIDAD  by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES. Centro Municipal de exposiciones Elche 15 mayo- 6 septiembre 2015

Selection of texts written by art critics of exhibitions made by ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES of Geometric Art: Pictorial, Sculpture and DIGITAL Geometry that she started in 1991 with COMBINABLES and TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO  formulating continuous mathematics and geometry for hers works. Previously, she worked 25 years (1965-1990) in landscape painting, design of architectural compositions of geometry and in the two paintings that ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES made of the ARIADNE the marble sculpture (1986-88) in the MUSEUM of PRADO, MADRID (exhibition at the Galería Albatros, Madrid 1990).
http://criticosartemadrid.es/index.php/noticias/464-iluminada-garcia-torres-geometria-color-y-musicalidad-diagramas-digitales-y-pintura-1991-2015 

Selección textos escritos por críticos de arte de exposiciones realizadas por ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES de Arte Geométrico: Pintura, Escultura y DIGITAL Geometría que ella inició en 1991 con COMBINABLES y TRAZADO ESPACIAL CONTINUO formulando la matemática continua y geometría para sus obras. Anteriormente, ella trabajó 25 años (1965-1990) en pintura de paisaje, composiciones de arquitectura geométrica y en las dos pinturas que realizó ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES de la escultura de mármol de ARIADNE (1986-88)en el MUSEUO del PRADO, MADRID. (exposición en la Galería Albatros, Madrid 1990).

ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES
1949 Elche Elx (Alicante) España
1965-1970 Ingreso y Estudios de Profesorado Dibujo en la Academia Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid y Facultad de Bellas Artes UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID.
En el primer curso el  maestro de ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES es el pintor Antonio López García y en 1969 Eusebio Sempere, año que concilió la docencia con la investigación en el Centro de Computación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES
Avenida General Marvá 14, 1ºizquierda,
03004 Alicante. SPAIN
m(+34) 696302487 966231046
iluminadagarciatorres@gmail.com
ARTE GEOMÉTRICO obras de ILUMINADA GARCÍA-TORRES

thethreadofariadne-musicality.blogspot.com


ILUMINADA GARCIA TORRES
1949 Elche Elx (Alicante) España
1965-1970 Studies Professor Drawing in the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and Faculty of Fine Arts COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY, MADRID. In the first course the teacher of ILUMINADA GARCIA-TORRES is the painter Antonio López García and in 1969 Eusebio Sempere, year that he reconciled the teaching with the research in the Computing Center, Complutense University of Madrid.


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