Carlos Méndez (1943) - Arlequin III

The work 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: 46 cm high x 38 cm wide.

Frame dimensions: 50 cm high x 41.5 cm wide.

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Artist biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career creating scenery for theatre and ballet. In 1962 he began to exhibit his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also hold shows 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 shown 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 that developed there from the sixties. Since then his painting has been very 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 striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from early- century vanguards, blending formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and very pronounced. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with the forms laid bare and focused on the human subject. To date, Carlos Méndez has a curriculum that spans nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed in public and private collections of great significance.