Carlos Méndez (1943) - Entre formas y colores - No Reserve

The work is signed by the author at the bottom

At the back, it is again signed and titled

The painting is presented framed

In good conservation condition the painting

Dimensions of the work: 73 cm in height x 60 cm in width

Dimensions of the frame: 79 cm in height x 63 cm in width


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Artist’s biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among the groups of painters, and began his career by creating scenographies for theatre and ballet. In 1962 he began to exhibit his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and since 1973 he would also hold exhibitions 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 the rooms of Sant Cugat del Vallès and of 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 following his arrival in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism developed there from the sixties. Since then his painting has been very closely linked to magical realism. Thus, it is common in his work to find ambiguous dreamlike spaces where spectral appearances of strange figures with undefined faces are staged, treated with a striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the vanguards of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and very marked. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” naked forms and focused on the human theme. To this day, Carlos Méndez has a curriculum that spans almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is found in public and private collections of great significance.