Carlos Méndez (1943) - Airo XII

The work is signed by the author at the bottom.

On the back, it is signed again and titled.

The painting is presented framed.

The painting is in good condition.

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

Dimensions of the frame: 75 cm high by 62 cm wide.

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Artist biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by doing scenographies for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began to exhibit 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 the rooms of Sant Cugat del Vallès and 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 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 faces with undefined features are staged, treated with a striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the vanguards of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive strength of the line, dark and very marked. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with naked forms and focused on the human subject. Today, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is found in public and private collections of great significance.