Por dentro y por fuera (Inside and Out)

Audivert belongs to a generation of Latin American artists who turned to engraving and printmaking as opposed to more traditional techniques, such as painting and sculpture. Although he later devoted himself almost exclusively to watercolor, Audivert's work stands out for its geometric figures and repeated use of architectural structures, such as plinths, staircases, and doors.
In this black-and-white etching, we see a series of elements expressed in a surrealist language: the seat of a wooden chair, an unfinished female face. In a more distant plane, an umbrella hangs from the back of an incomplete chair, in the purest Magritte style. "Inside and out" seems to be the synthesis of two other mysterious prints by Audivert: "The Conversation I and II," in which different parts of a chair peek out from the inside and outside of a letter envelope.