Carlos Méndez (1943) - Sinfonía cromática - 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 Artwork dimensions: 73 cm high x 60 cm wide Frame dimensions: 76 cm high x 63 cm wide Artist biography: Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by creating scenery for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also hold shows 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 paintings 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 would evolve toward the informalism developed there from the 1960s. Since then his painting has been closely tied to magical realism. Thus, his work often features ambiguous dream spaces where spectral apparitions of strange figures with undefined faces are staged, treated with a startling verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the vanguards of the early 20th century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and highly pronounced. In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with the forms laid bare and focused on the human theme. To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé spanning almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is held in public and private collections of great prominence.

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