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 conservation condition

Dimensions of the work: 46 cm in height x 38 cm in width

Dimensions of the frame: 50 cm in height x 41.5 cm in width

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Biografía del artista:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by doing set designs for theatre and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and since 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 galleries 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 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 striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the avant-gardes of the early century, blending 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. To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed in major public and private collections.