Fernando Sánchez Torres

Artist and academic Fernando Sánchez Torres presented a collection of oil paintings in an exhibition titled La violencia: denuncia como contribución a la pazʺ (2015), in which, isolated pieces depict some of the tragedies that have been experienced in Colombia, in a a denunciation of the heartrending reality caused by natural disasters and terrorism and, at the same time, an awareness of the need to live with and for peace. This book comprises the works of this exhibition and others later presented at the exhibition "Bodegones y paisajesʺ (2018). The catalogue incudes full page color reproductions of thirty works of art that make up the most recent pictorial production of Dr. Sánchez Torres - OB/GYN doctor, author, humanist and permanent member of the Superior Council of the Universidad Central -, some of them inspired by the photographic archive of the local newspaper El Tiempo.