Marcel Mendez - Fragmented Face #100 -XL- ( No reserve )

Title: Fragmented Face #100
Series: The 1000 Faces
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

This work presents a frontal portrait of an elongated female face, constructed through a clean and balanced geometric composition. The face is divided vertically between cream and deep blue, creating two visual identities that coexist within the same figure.

The eyes receive different treatments: one retains a defined and expressive gaze, while the other is traversed by a large vertical black plane that introduces mystery and disrupts the symmetry. The nose is reduced to a rectangular line, and the red lips provide a point of intensity at the center of the composition.

The black hair envelops the face with curved shapes and ends in a high bun, decorated with a fine yellow stripe. The circular earrings, the collar formed by color blocks, and the garment structured in red, black, cream, and yellow complete the character’s personality.

The background is divided into large areas of blue, turquoise, red, yellow, and cream. These blocks extend the geometry of the portrait and create an energetic contrast between warm and cool colors. The black lines unify the work and reinforce its neocubist, contemporary, and hard-edge language.

Artwork Details

* Original and unique work.
* Year: 2026.
* Technique: acrylic on canvas.
* Vertical format.
* The interior spaces shown in the mockups are for illustration only.

Shipping

The painting will be carefully protected and rolled inside a sturdy tube, unframed, to guarantee safe transport. Once received, it can be easily mounted on a new frame at any specialty store.

Series: The 1000 Faces

The 1000 Faces is an artistic project comprised of one thousand original, unique, and numbered portraits. The series explores the diversity of human identity through a language based on geometry, facial fragmentation, and the expressive power of color.

Each character shares the same aesthetic essence, but is distinguished by their features, gaze, hairstyle, clothing, and own chromatic structure. No face is repeated: each work represents a different personality within a common visual universe.

The division of the faces symbolizes the different facets that make up a person: what we show, what we keep reserved, and the multiple versions of ourselves that appear throughout life. The color planes function as fragments of an identity that never remains fully fixed.

Fragmented Face #100 occupies a special place within the project, as it completes the first hundred portraits of the series. It represents a major milestone on the path toward a thousand works and makes this piece a standout point in the collection’s evolution.

With each new portrait, The 1000 Faces grows into a grand visual archive of imaginary characters. Each painting can be viewed independently, but it also forms part of a collective work whose ultimate goal is to gather a thousand different ways of representing the human face.