
Tondo: Azul y Rojo
2019
Tondo: Azul y Rojo distills Carmen Herrera's lifelong formal inquiry into its most essential terms, presenting a circular field in which saturated blue and red engage in a tension that is simultaneously architectural and lyrical. Produced in 2019 through a combination of aquatint, relief printing, and chine-collé, the work demonstrates how printmaking can amplify rather than simply translate Herrera's vocabulary. The chine-collé process introduces a delicate material dimensionality to the surface, allowing color to resonate with a depth that exceeds flat pigment, while the tondo format removes all possibility of a right angle or corner, forcing the eye to move continuously around and between the two chromatic forces at play. At 110.5 by 108.6 centimeters, the scale commands attention in a way that smaller editioned works rarely achieve, and the near-perfect symmetry of the format reinforces Herrera's insistence that geometry carries its own emotional weight without recourse to narrative or symbol. Herrera spent decades refining this approach long before broad institutional recognition arrived, and works from the final chapter of her career carry the authority of a practice distilled over more than seven decades. Published by Universal Limited Art Editions in an edition of sixteen and signed by the artist, this print occupies a meaningful position within her body of work, offering collectors access to her thinking at its most resolved. The absence of a frame in the offering allows for considered presentation choices that reflect each collection's distinct character.
- Medium
- Aquatint and relief with chine-collé
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, NY
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