Carlos Méndez (1943) - Entre formas y colores - 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 by 60 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 79 cm high by 63 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 exhibiting his work, bringing it to various Argentine cities, and since 1973 he would also hold shows in Paris, Rome and Mexico. Later, 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 his arrival in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism developed there from the 1960s. Since then his painting has been very linked to magical realism. Thus, it is common in his work to find ambiguous dreamlike spaces where spectral appearances of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with a striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the early-century avant-gardes, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force 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 in public and private collections of great significance.