CARLOS MÉRIDA

CARLOS MÉRIDA

1891, Guatemala City
1985, Mexico City

What happens when pre-Columbian aesthetics meet a pictorial style that was nourished by Joan Miró and Paul Klee? This wildly experimental hybrid poetic materialized on canvas and in large murals, figurative as well as abstract, in a career that went through surrealist and impressionist phases during which Mérida always concentrated on the materialization of a concept rather than on the representation of people or objects.

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