Man

Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero

In this stark, contrasting image, the solid black silhouette of a man's bust in profile is interrupted only by the sharp white oval of his eye - punctuated with a blood-red iris - and the embossed, uninked squares of his teeth. Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero outlines the silhouette in an almost neon yellow that appears to glow, making the portrait vibrate with energy. This image echoes that of an earlier print he made in 1983, "Quetzacoatl."

Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero was born in Santiago, Chile on May 27, 1927. He studied in Chile, Brazil, the United States, the Slade School in London and at Atelier 17 in Paris. Principally a printmaker, Gonzalez-Tornero has had more than forty solo exhibitions in Chile, Canada, Europe and the United States. Sergio discussed his printmaking technniques in an essay on page 325 of The Art of the Print by Fritz Eichenberg, ISBN 0-8109-0103-X.