Carlos Méndez (1943) - Composición con buho

The work is signed by the artist on the bottom.

On the back, it is again signed and titled.

The painting is presented framed (the frame shows a slight flaw).

The painting is in good condition.

Work dimensions: 65 cm high x 54 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 67 cm high x 56 cm wide

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Artist biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by creating stage sets for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also hold shows in Paris, Rome and Mexico. Subsequently, he studied engraving 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 arriving 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, it is common in his work to find ambiguous dreamlike spaces, where spectral appearances of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with a startling verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the early 20th-century vanguards, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and very marked.

In his own words, it is a 'realist abstraction', with the forms laid bare and focused on the human subject.

Today, Carlos Méndez has a résumé spanning nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed in public and private collections of great significance.