Carlos Méndez (1943) - Figuración abstracta

The work is signed by the author at the bottom with one of his pseudonyms that he used, “A. Basté.”

It is presented framed.

The painting is in good conservation state.

Dimensions of the work: 70 cm in height x 70 cm in width

Dimensions of the frame: 77 cm in height x 77 cm in width

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Artist’s Biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by creating scenery for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began to exhibit his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also hold exhibitions in Paris, Rome, and Mexico. Subsequently, he studied printmaking in New York and San Francisco, and in 1976 he moved to Catalonia. There he exhibited in the rooms of Sant Cugat del Vallès and Barcelona. Later, his painting would also be admired in Colombia, Uruguay, Israel, the United States, Venezuela, and Germany.

His work initially stems from social realism, but following his arrival in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism that developed there from the 1960s. Since then his painting has been closely linked to magical realism. Thus, his work commonly features ambiguous dreamlike spaces, where spectral appearances of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with a striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from early 20th-century vanguards, blending formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and very marked. In his own words, it is an “realist abstraction,” with naked forms and focused on the human theme. Today, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is found in public and private collections of great significance.