Terencio González is a Franco-Argentine abstract painter who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (graduating in 2011) in Jean-Michel Alberola’s studio. From this training, he developed a meticulous attention to detail and a mastery of color that now form the core of his practice.
His early works bear the mark of his Argentine roots: concert poster backgrounds, semiotic games, and found materials. Then came the definitive shift toward abstraction. For nearly ten years, he focused his exploration on the latent presence of matter, expressed through bold and powerful colors.
Today, Terencio González works directly on the canvas, which he prepares and stretches onto a frame himself. Color is applied in layers, building up until it partially fades away. Light emerges from the material. The white background acts as an interference between meaning and perception. Imperfections, grain, and texture are not accidents: they are integral to the composition.
In 2017, Terencio González received the Research and Artistic Creation Grant from the CNAP (National Center for Visual Arts). His works are included in the FRAC Normandie Rouen collection and the Société Générale collection.
In Terencio González's work, the painting comes to life.
The gaze gets lost there, wavering between color and texture, in a deliberate ambivalence, where the pictorial language asserts its complete autonomy. An invitation to explore the spaces in between, where the eye’s pace is disrupted by a whirlwind of colors and lines.
