Poetry / avant-garde · 1910–1937
Poetry / avant-garde
Poet and essayist from Santa Cruz de Tenerife linked to the Canarian avant-garde. He was an editor of Gaceta de Arte, took part in the surrealist milieu of the 1930s and died during Francoist repression in 1937.
The Academia Canaria de la Lengua presents Domingo López Torres as a poet and essayist born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and gives his chronology as 1910-1937. His training was self-taught and his cultural activity unfolded in publications such as Hespérides, La Prensa, La Tarde, El Progreso, El Socialista, Cartones, Índice and Gaceta de Arte.
As an editor of Gaceta de Arte, López Torres took part in the core of the Canarian avant-garde and in dialogue with international surrealism. Academic bibliography on the Canarian avant-garde links him to the island surrealist group alongside authors such as Pedro García Cabrera, Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo, José María de la Rosa and Juan Ismael.
After the outbreak of the Civil War he was imprisoned in Fyffes. The Academia Canaria de la Lengua associates Lo imprevisto with that prison period and notes that he died in February 1937 during Francoist repression.
