Carlos Méndez (1943) - Circe I - NO RESERVE

The artwork 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: 76 cm high x 63 cm wide.

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Artist biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, within painter collectives, and began his career by creating sets for theater 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 at venues in Sant Cugat del Vallès and Barcelona. Later his painting would also be shown 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 very closely linked to magical realism. Thus, his work often features ambiguous dreamlike spaces, where spectral appearances of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the vanguards of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive strength of the line, dark and very pronounced. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with forms stripped bare and centered 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.