Untitled I 1962

Esteban Vicente made this untitled print with lithography in mind, pulling shapes and planes of color across a page. It's all about surface here, right? I like to imagine Vicente was building up the image bit by bit, maybe not even knowing what the end result would be. Thinking it through as he went along. The planes of red, gray, and black create a shifting landscape. I love the painterly strokes of the black, dragged horizontally like some dark sky. Then the red that feels like a disruption, the color of alarm! You get the sense that Vicente was an action painter who made collages, and that lineage and conversation are very visible here. I feel a kinship between his experiments and mine. What do you think he'd make of my work? I wonder.