Carlos Méndez (1943) - Arlequin IV

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: 46 cm high x 38 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 52 cm high x 44 cm wide

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Biography of the artist:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by creating set designs for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he also held 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 admired in Colombia, Uruguay, Israel, the United States, Venezuela and Germany.

His work initially stems from social realism, but after arriving in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism that developed there from the 1960s. Since then his painting has been closely tied to magical realism. Thus, in his work it is common to find ambiguous dreamlike spaces where spectral appearances of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with a startling verisimilitude. Méndez uses figuration inherited from the vanguard movements of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and very pronounced. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with forms stripped bare and focused on the human subject. To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed among public and private collections of great significance.