Carlos Méndez (1943) - Airo IX - 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 in height by 60 cm in width Frame dimensions: 75 cm in height by 62 cm in width Biography of the artist: Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among fellow 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 staged 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 comes 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 tied 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 striking verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the avant-garde 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,” with the forms laid bare and centered on the human subject. To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé spanning nearly a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed in important public and private collections.

Estimate:£380.3

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