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'''Tomás Llorens i Serra''' (born 4 October 1936 in [[Almassora]], [[Valencian Community]], Spain, died 10 June 2021 in [[Dénia]], [[Marina Alta]], Spain),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-06-...vam-del-reina-sofia-y-del-thyssen.html|title= Muere el historiador del arte Tomás Llorens, el primer director del IVAM, del Reina Sofía y del Thyssen |last=Bono |first=Ferrán |date=10 June 2021 |website= El País |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> was a Spanish art and architecture historian, museum director, curator, university professor, and art critic renowned for his work on art and architecture theory and aesthetics, especially regarding the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was director of the [[Institut Valencià d'Art Modern]] in Valencia in 1986-1988, director of the [[Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía|Reina Sofía Museum]] in Madrid in 1988-1990, and director of the [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]] in Madrid in 1991-2005.
== Life and Career ==
Llorens received a degree in law from the [[Complutense University of Madrid|University of Madrid]] in 1958 and a degree in philosophy from the [[University of Valencia]] in 1964. From 1969 to 1972 he lectured on aesthetics at the [[Technical University of Valencia|School of Architecture of Valencia]]. He was imprisoned and expelled under the [[Francoist Spain|Franco fascist regime]] in 1972.<ref name="radiotimes.com">{{cite web |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1988/07/07/cultura/584229609_850215.html |title=Tomás LLorens: Quiero dar dignidad a la presencia de Picasso en la colección permanente |last=Garciá |first=Ángeles |date=April 7, 1988 |website=El País |access-date=April 27, 2024}}</ref> That same year he left Spain with his family to live in England, where he was appointed a Research Fellow at [[University of Portsmouth|Portsmouth Polytechnic]] School of Architecture, at the invitation of its head of Department, [[Geoffrey Broadbent]]. He remained at Portsmouth as a senior lecturer until 1986. At Broadbent’s instigation, the school taught architectural [[semiotics]] under Llorens and his colleague Richard Bunt, resulting in various publications, notably the book they edited together, ''Meaning and Behaviour in the Built Environment'' (1980).<ref>"An Interview with G. Broadbent on Meaning in Architecture", ''METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture'', Vol.6, No.1, Spring 1980.</ref> While still at Portsmouth, Llorens was a visiting lecturer at the [[Polytechnic University of Catalonia|Barcelona School of Architecture (UPC)]] in 1977-1980, at [[University College London]] in 1977-1981, and at the [[Central University of Venezuela]] in [[Caracas]] in 1979-1980, as well as a visiting lecturer in the history of art at the [[University of Girona]] in 1996-98.<ref>Tomàs Llorens, “Manfredo Tafuri: Neo-avant-garde and history”, in Demetri Porphyrios (ed), ''On the Methodology of Architectural History'', London: Architectural Design Profile, 51 6/7, 1981, 83.</ref> Llorens was a member of the editorial board of the Barcelona-based architectural journal [[Arquitecturas Bis]], until it closed in 1985.
Llorens returned permanently to Spain in 1984, settling in the [[Valencian Country]], where he took over as general director of Artistic Heritage at the [[Generalitat Valenciana]]. On his return to Spain, Llorens was behind the modernisation of many Spanish museums, particularly after he was appointed National Director of Fine Arts in 1986 by the then Spanish Minister of Culture, [[Javier Solana]]. He was one of the promoters of the [[Institut Valencià d'Art Modern]] (IVAM), of which he was its very first director between 1986 and 1988 – his contribution being crucial for the Julio González collection to be installed permanently in the museum. He was director of the [[Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía|Reina Sofía Museum]] in Madrid from 1988 to 1990: under his direction the museum built up a rich permanent collection of 20th century art by acquiring works by the great Spanish masters such as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Juan Gris]] and [[Joan Miró]], who were until then, and for historical reasons, under-represented.<ref name="radiotimes.com"/> From the mid-eighties Llorens was part of the Spanish Ministry of Culture team that negotiated with [[Heinrich Thyssen|Baron Thyssen-Bornemizsa]] in the transfer of his artistic collection to Madrid. In 1991 he was appointed director of the [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]], a position he held until 2005.
In 2006, Llorens received the [[Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts]] by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.<ref>{{Lien web|langue=es|url=http://www.mcu.es/premios/docs/OtrosPremios/MedallasOro_2006.pdf||title=Relación de premiados del año 2006|editor=Ministerio di Cultura |year=2006|access-date=27 April 2024}}.</ref> In 2013 he was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the [[University of Alicante]]. On October 23, 2020, Llorens was declared the “Favorite Son of Almassora”, his hometown, by unanimous vote of the people. Llorens died in Dénia on June 10, 2021. The president of the Valencian Government, [[Ximo Puig]], announced the news during a session at the Valencian Courts and defined Llorens as "a great intellectual and a great Valencian".<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.almassora.es/ca/articul...de-tomas-llorens-hijo-predilecto-de-almassora |title= Dol oficial per la mort de Tomàs Llorens, Fill Predilecte d’Almassora |date=10 June 2021 |website=Almassora |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
== Selected edited books and writings ==
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Arquitectura, historia y teoria de los signos: Symposium organizado por la Comision de Cultura del Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluna y Baleares'', Barcelona: Gaya Ciencia, 1972.
*Tomás Llorens, “Domestic characters and leap into the avant-garde”, ''Lotus International'', No. 23, New York: Rizzoli, 1979.
*Tomás Llorens, "Notes for a Definition of Aesthetic Semiosis", in Seymour Chatman, Umberto Eco and Jean M. Klinkenberg (eds.), ''A Semiotic Landscape. Panorama sémiotique''. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1979, pp. 313-317.
*Tomás Llorens, “Architecture as representation of nature”, ''Semiotics'', 1980, pp. 307-317
*Geoffrey Broadbent, Richard Bunt and Tomás Llorens (eds), ''Meaning and Behaviour in the Built Environment''. Chichester: Wiley, 1980.
*Tomás Llorens, “Manfredo Tafuri: Neo-avant-garde and history”, in Demetri Porphyrios (ed), ''On the Methodology of Architectural History'', London: Architectural Design Profile, 51 6/7, 1981.
*Tomás Llorens, “Making History”, in Joan Ockman (ed), ''Architecture Criticism Ideology''. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.
*Tomás Llorens, ''Guide to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum''. Laura Suffield (trans.) (2nd ed.). Madrid: Lunwerg editores SA, 1998.
*Tomás Llorens and Felipe Garín (eds), ''Fortuny e la pittura preziosista Spagnola.'' Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1998.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Kupka: Localización de móviles gráficos, 1912-1913''. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1998.
*Tomás Llorens, Juan Manuel Bonet, and Marilena Pasquali (eds), ''Morandi: exposición antológica.'' Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1999.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Nacimiento y desintegración del cubismo: Apollinaire y Picasso.'' Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 2001.
*Valeriano Bozal, Tomás Llorens and José Francisco Yvars (eds), ''Forma. El ideal clásico en el Arte Moderno.'' Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Mimesis, realismos modernos 1918-45.'' Madrid: Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2005.
*Yolande Clergue, Dominique Serena-Allier and Tomás Llorens (eds), ''Pablo Picasso: Portraits d'Arlésiennes 1912-1958.'' Ouvrage collectif, Actes Sud, 2005.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Peintres de la lumière Sargent / Sorolla.'' Paris: Ouvrage collectif, éditeur Association Paris-Musées, 2007.
*Tomás Llorens and Didier Ottinger (eds), ''Edward Hopper.'' Paris: D.A.P./Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, 2012
*Abigail McEwen, Tomás Llorens, Frederic Tuten (eds), ''The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García''. New York: Rizzoli, 2018
== Studies on his work ==
*Oihana Robador Ausejo, “Forma. El ideal clásico en el arte moderno”. ''Revisiones'', núm. 01, Pamplona, 2005.
== References ==
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[[File:Tomàs Llorens.jpg|thumb]]
'''Tomás Llorens i Serra''' (born 4 October 1936 in [[Almassora]], [[Valencian Community]], Spain, died 10 June 2021 in [[Dénia]], [[Marina Alta]], Spain),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-06-...vam-del-reina-sofia-y-del-thyssen.html|title= Muere el historiador del arte Tomás Llorens, el primer director del IVAM, del Reina Sofía y del Thyssen |last=Bono |first=Ferrán |date=10 June 2021 |website= El País |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> was a Spanish art and architecture historian, museum director, curator, university professor, and art critic renowned for his work on art and architecture theory and aesthetics, especially regarding the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was director of the [[Institut Valencià d'Art Modern]] in Valencia in 1986-1988, director of the [[Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía|Reina Sofía Museum]] in Madrid in 1988-1990, and director of the [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]] in Madrid in 1991-2005.
== Life and Career ==
Llorens received a degree in law from the [[Complutense University of Madrid|University of Madrid]] in 1958 and a degree in philosophy from the [[University of Valencia]] in 1964. From 1969 to 1972 he lectured on aesthetics at the [[Technical University of Valencia|School of Architecture of Valencia]]. He was imprisoned and expelled under the [[Francoist Spain|Franco fascist regime]] in 1972.<ref name="radiotimes.com">{{cite web |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1988/07/07/cultura/584229609_850215.html |title=Tomás LLorens: Quiero dar dignidad a la presencia de Picasso en la colección permanente |last=Garciá |first=Ángeles |date=April 7, 1988 |website=El País |access-date=April 27, 2024}}</ref> That same year he left Spain with his family to live in England, where he was appointed a Research Fellow at [[University of Portsmouth|Portsmouth Polytechnic]] School of Architecture, at the invitation of its head of Department, [[Geoffrey Broadbent]]. He remained at Portsmouth as a senior lecturer until 1986. At Broadbent’s instigation, the school taught architectural [[semiotics]] under Llorens and his colleague Richard Bunt, resulting in various publications, notably the book they edited together, ''Meaning and Behaviour in the Built Environment'' (1980).<ref>"An Interview with G. Broadbent on Meaning in Architecture", ''METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture'', Vol.6, No.1, Spring 1980.</ref> While still at Portsmouth, Llorens was a visiting lecturer at the [[Polytechnic University of Catalonia|Barcelona School of Architecture (UPC)]] in 1977-1980, at [[University College London]] in 1977-1981, and at the [[Central University of Venezuela]] in [[Caracas]] in 1979-1980, as well as a visiting lecturer in the history of art at the [[University of Girona]] in 1996-98.<ref>Tomàs Llorens, “Manfredo Tafuri: Neo-avant-garde and history”, in Demetri Porphyrios (ed), ''On the Methodology of Architectural History'', London: Architectural Design Profile, 51 6/7, 1981, 83.</ref> Llorens was a member of the editorial board of the Barcelona-based architectural journal [[Arquitecturas Bis]], until it closed in 1985.
Llorens returned permanently to Spain in 1984, settling in the [[Valencian Country]], where he took over as general director of Artistic Heritage at the [[Generalitat Valenciana]]. On his return to Spain, Llorens was behind the modernisation of many Spanish museums, particularly after he was appointed National Director of Fine Arts in 1986 by the then Spanish Minister of Culture, [[Javier Solana]]. He was one of the promoters of the [[Institut Valencià d'Art Modern]] (IVAM), of which he was its very first director between 1986 and 1988 – his contribution being crucial for the Julio González collection to be installed permanently in the museum. He was director of the [[Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía|Reina Sofía Museum]] in Madrid from 1988 to 1990: under his direction the museum built up a rich permanent collection of 20th century art by acquiring works by the great Spanish masters such as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Juan Gris]] and [[Joan Miró]], who were until then, and for historical reasons, under-represented.<ref name="radiotimes.com"/> From the mid-eighties Llorens was part of the Spanish Ministry of Culture team that negotiated with [[Heinrich Thyssen|Baron Thyssen-Bornemizsa]] in the transfer of his artistic collection to Madrid. In 1991 he was appointed director of the [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]], a position he held until 2005.
In 2006, Llorens received the [[Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts]] by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.<ref>{{Lien web|langue=es|url=http://www.mcu.es/premios/docs/OtrosPremios/MedallasOro_2006.pdf||title=Relación de premiados del año 2006|editor=Ministerio di Cultura |year=2006|access-date=27 April 2024}}.</ref> In 2013 he was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the [[University of Alicante]]. On October 23, 2020, Llorens was declared the “Favorite Son of Almassora”, his hometown, by unanimous vote of the people. Llorens died in Dénia on June 10, 2021. The president of the Valencian Government, [[Ximo Puig]], announced the news during a session at the Valencian Courts and defined Llorens as "a great intellectual and a great Valencian".<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.almassora.es/ca/articul...de-tomas-llorens-hijo-predilecto-de-almassora |title= Dol oficial per la mort de Tomàs Llorens, Fill Predilecte d’Almassora |date=10 June 2021 |website=Almassora |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
== Selected edited books and writings ==
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Arquitectura, historia y teoria de los signos: Symposium organizado por la Comision de Cultura del Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluna y Baleares'', Barcelona: Gaya Ciencia, 1972.
*Tomás Llorens, “Domestic characters and leap into the avant-garde”, ''Lotus International'', No. 23, New York: Rizzoli, 1979.
*Tomás Llorens, "Notes for a Definition of Aesthetic Semiosis", in Seymour Chatman, Umberto Eco and Jean M. Klinkenberg (eds.), ''A Semiotic Landscape. Panorama sémiotique''. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1979, pp. 313-317.
*Tomás Llorens, “Architecture as representation of nature”, ''Semiotics'', 1980, pp. 307-317
*Geoffrey Broadbent, Richard Bunt and Tomás Llorens (eds), ''Meaning and Behaviour in the Built Environment''. Chichester: Wiley, 1980.
*Tomás Llorens, “Manfredo Tafuri: Neo-avant-garde and history”, in Demetri Porphyrios (ed), ''On the Methodology of Architectural History'', London: Architectural Design Profile, 51 6/7, 1981.
*Tomás Llorens, “Making History”, in Joan Ockman (ed), ''Architecture Criticism Ideology''. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.
*Tomás Llorens, ''Guide to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum''. Laura Suffield (trans.) (2nd ed.). Madrid: Lunwerg editores SA, 1998.
*Tomás Llorens and Felipe Garín (eds), ''Fortuny e la pittura preziosista Spagnola.'' Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1998.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Kupka: Localización de móviles gráficos, 1912-1913''. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1998.
*Tomás Llorens, Juan Manuel Bonet, and Marilena Pasquali (eds), ''Morandi: exposición antológica.'' Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1999.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Nacimiento y desintegración del cubismo: Apollinaire y Picasso.'' Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 2001.
*Valeriano Bozal, Tomás Llorens and José Francisco Yvars (eds), ''Forma. El ideal clásico en el Arte Moderno.'' Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Mimesis, realismos modernos 1918-45.'' Madrid: Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2005.
*Yolande Clergue, Dominique Serena-Allier and Tomás Llorens (eds), ''Pablo Picasso: Portraits d'Arlésiennes 1912-1958.'' Ouvrage collectif, Actes Sud, 2005.
*Tomás Llorens (ed.), ''Peintres de la lumière Sargent / Sorolla.'' Paris: Ouvrage collectif, éditeur Association Paris-Musées, 2007.
*Tomás Llorens and Didier Ottinger (eds), ''Edward Hopper.'' Paris: D.A.P./Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, 2012
*Abigail McEwen, Tomás Llorens, Frederic Tuten (eds), ''The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García''. New York: Rizzoli, 2018
== Studies on his work ==
*Oihana Robador Ausejo, “Forma. El ideal clásico en el arte moderno”. ''Revisiones'', núm. 01, Pamplona, 2005.
== References ==
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[[Category:Spanish architecture writers]]
[[Category:Spanish art historians]]
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