This exhibition, which is presented accompanied by the corresponding catalogue, brings together a set of more than 100 paintings by Joaquim Torrents Lladó (Badalona 1946-Palma 1993) from different periods, themes and origins.

The Museum is thus organizing the first exhibition of this artist in Badalona, the city where he was born, since he had never exhibited there even in his lifetime. To do this, he has had the collaboration of his daughter, Maria Torrents, who is the curator of the exhibition, and with the contributions of many people and the Government of the Balearic Islands, who have lent works.

The exhibition and the edition of the catalog have also been possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Balearic government itself and of Badalona Funeral Services.

Educated at the Valls Academy and the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Joaquim Torrents Lladó immediately stood out as a draftsman and painter, although, for a few years, he also dedicated himself to set design.

He gained international attention thanks, above all, to the portraits (he painted numerous personalities, such as Joan Charles I, Josep Tarradellas, Carolina of Monaco, Baron Thyssen or Antonio de Senillosa) and he also cultivated, with great success, the landscape . Less well known, but also present in the exhibition, are his abstract paintings, which he did at the beginning of his career.

He exhibited throughout Europe, in the United States and, more recently, in Japan. In 1973 he founded the Escola Lliure del Mediterrani in Palma, a city where he had resided since 1968 and where he died, suddenly and prematurely, in 1993.