Carlos Méndez (1943) - Aido VI

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: 73 cm high by 60 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 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 creating scenery for theatre and ballet. In 1962 he began to exhibit his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 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 venues in Sant Cugat del Vallès and Barcelona. Later his painting would also be exhibited 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 tied to magical realism. Thus, his work commonly features ambiguous dreamlike spaces, where spectral appearances of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with a startling verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figurative style inherited from the avant-gardes of the early century, blending 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 spanning almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed among public and private collections of great significance.