Carlos Méndez (1943) - Mirada VI - No Reserve

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 × 60 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 77 cm high × 64 cm wide


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Artist's biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by designing scenery for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began to exhibit his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also stage 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 in 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 linked to magical realism. Thus, it is common in his work to have ambiguous dreamlike spaces, where spectral apparitions of strange figures with undefined faces are staged, treated with a striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses figuration inherited from the early-20th-century vanguards, blending formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and strongly defined. 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 of nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed among major public and private collections.