Carlos Méndez (1943) - Figura Enigmática

The artwork is signed by the author at the bottom

On the back, it is again signed and titled

The painting is presented framed

The painting is in good condition

Dimensions of the work: 73 cm high by 60 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 76 cm high by 63 cm wide

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Artist's biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by creating set designs for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he also held 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 venues in Sant Cugat del Vallès and in 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 after his arrival in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism developed there from the 1960s. Since then his painting has been closely linked to magical realism. Thus, his work frequently 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 the vanguard movements of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and sharply defined.

In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with the forms naked and focused on the human subject.

To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed among public and private collections of great significance.