Carlos Méndez (1943) - Mirada

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: 55 cm high by 46 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 59 cm high by 50 cm wide

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Artist's biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by creating stage sets 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 shows in Paris, Rome and Mexico. Later, 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 was also 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 1960s. Since then his painting has been very closely tied 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 striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the vanguards of the early 20th century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and very marked. In his own words, it is an “abstraction realista” (realist abstraction), naked the forms and focused on the human theme. To this day, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed in public and private collections of great significance.