Carlos Méndez (1943) - Airo XII

The work is signed by the artist 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: 73 cm high x 60 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 75 cm high x 62 cm wide

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Artist's biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires among fellow painters, and began his career by creating stage designs for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he also staged 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 Barcelona. Later his painting would also be admired in Colombia, Uruguay, Israel, the United States, Venezuela and Germany.

His work initially emerges from social realism, but following his arrival in Catalonia, his language would evolve 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 striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from early-century vanguards, mixing formal distortion with the expressive strength of the line, dark and very marked. 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 that spans nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is found in public and private collections of great significance.