Victor MESA - Lot 92

Victor MESA El Nandu, 1982 Lithograph on paper signed and dated lower right, titled lower center, numbered lower left lower left 16/20 Framed 28.5 x 22 cm Note: Víctor Mesa (born in Uruguay in 1951) first exhibited as a self-taught artist at the Plaza Libertad Fine Arts Fair in 1965. He then studied engraving with Luis Solari and Glauco Capozzoli and travelled throughout America. From 1978, he lived in Europe and frequented the Luis Camnitzer studio. In 1980, he moved to France, attended the Atelier mexicain d'Oaxaca and became a printmaking teacher. The imaginary world of the mafia, crime films, street games and casinos are his favorite themes, which he mixes with violence (explosions, fires, gunshots) and comic / dreamlike scenes.