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This print portrays, in profile, a character at the center of Antonio Berni’s imaginative universe: Ramona Montiel, a fictional prostitute who ascends from apathetic, middle-class youth to a decadent existence as paramour to clerics and generals in…

"…I became interested in the superposition of the image, the representation of something over the thing itself, shadow on shadow, wrinkle on wrinkle."                                                                                             …

The hybrid possibilities of man-as-animal and man-becoming-animal emerged out of historical Expressionism and Surrealism, with roots drawn partly from the horrors of the First World War. The echoes and permutations of these “monsters” appear in works…