Roberto Cortazar Mexican Contemporary Torso Etching

A striking etching from celebrated Mexican artist Roberto Cortazar.

Roberto Cortazar (Mexican, b. 1962)
Etching on paper of an upper torso with intersecting lines in black and brown tones.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Numbered 22/40 lower left recto.
Float matted in a metallic painted wooden frame.

Provenance

Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta.

In his Reinventing the Master: Cortazar's Variations on Orozco's Themes, art critic Edward Gomez writes "...Cortázar, whose art is rooted in Mexico’s long, rich tradition of figurative image-making (a tradition that stretches back to the region’s ancient civilizations), has never primarily been motivated by any theory or any aesthetic doctrines. Instead, the art-making language he has developed, with its unique blend of figurative and abstract elements, has evolved out of his technical experiments as a painter and draftsman, and out of his investigation and assimilation of a variety of influences, from the economical, expressive lines of such modern masters as Picasso and Matisse to the figure altering techniques of the Irish-born, British painter Francis Bacon. Like Bacon, who once remarked that “flesh is the reason oil painting was invented,” Cortázar approaches and handles his materials in a way that is both elegant and visceral".