Carlos Méndez (1943) - Gruns III

The work is signed by the artist at the bottom and dated 1996.

On the reverse side, it is again signed, dated, and titled.

The painting is presented framed (the frame has some minor damage).

The painting is in good condition.

Dimensions of the work: 73 cm in height by 60 cm in width.

Frame measurements: 75 cm in height by 62 cm in width.

A certificate of authenticity is attached to the painting.
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Artist biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires among fellow painters, and began his career by creating scenery for theatre and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also stage exhibitions 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 following his arrival in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism that developed there from the 1960s onward. 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 apparitions of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with a striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figurative style inherited from the vanguards of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and strongly defined. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with forms laid bare and focused on the human subject. To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé spanning almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed in major public and private collections.