Chicago Artworks on Display: Explore the Current Space

Throughout Alexi Torres’s Unbrainwashable series, the figure and the hand become symbols of identity. In each painting, a different bust has hands coming out of the head, either pease signs, middle fingers, or pointing hands. Yet, the message remains the same. These hands are the protective forces from external manipulation. Alexi is reminding the viewer to be true to oneself, remain unbrainwashable. 

Alexi Torres is a Cuban artist known for exploring the relationship between nature, human thought, and interconnectedness through intricate multi-layered paintings, bronze sculptures, and objects. Inspired by his agrarian roots, he follows lunar cycles in his creative process, reimagining cultural and political symbols with a focus on spirituality, authenticity, and collective memory.  Torres has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad and hist work can be found in major private and public collections, including the private collections of Will Smith, Los Angeles, CA; Delta Airlines, Atlanta GA; Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA; Hoover Public Library, Hoover, AL; Museum of Art Matanzas, Cuba.