Graduated in the specialty of Painting from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de València (1984-1989). His work is linked, from its beginnings in the late eighties, to the pictorial figuration that began in the seventies in Spain, which connects with avant-garde traditions.

His artistic practice is based on the connections between automatic processes and architecture, on the illusionism of geometry and the power of shadow, strongly influenced by Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical painting. It starts from autobiographical references to the Almeria landscape and its traditional architecture, which he develops in his first pictorial series at the end of the eighties and nineties, and later connects with the rationalist architecture of Guillermo Langle, with which he lived in his childhood and to which he dedicates the series The invisible architect (2005). This interest in rationalist architecture is combined with automatic processes, such as mental patterns that respond to manual motor skills, neural residues, and vitreous humor. A path between tradition and the avant-garde, figuration and abstraction, along which the author’s work wanders.

Paco de la Torre was awarded a scholarship by the Alfonso El Magnánimo Foundation of the Valencia / Valencia Provincial Council and by the Cañada Blanch Foundation. He obtained the Bancaixa Prize in 2001 and the Caja Sur Prize in 2003. His work has been shown in numerous institutions since his first solo exhibition at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Valencia, 1987), among which those of the Institut Valencià d’Art stand out. Modern (València, 1999), the Cervantes Institute of Milan (Italy, 1999) and Munich (Germany, 2003), the Almería Museum of Art Center (2005) and the Tarragona College of Architects (2010).