B. October 11, 1967 - Durango, Mexico.

A B O U T

I do not intend to create stereotypes with my characters. The appearance, the actions and the scenery they are part of are actually just a pretext to frame the feelings and internal emotions of these people portrayed. They surround themselves with a certain atmosphere to give a certain narrative or symbolic meaning, but, above all, I am interested in observing them internally; I find it interesting that the models express introspection, but also existential vitality. My characters can seek their own self-analysis to obtain answers about themselves, for which they also resort to generating a double with whom they can converse, discuss and reflect.

Edgar Mendoza

 T R A J E C T O R Y

 Statement

Edgar Noé Mendoza Mancillas

B. October 11, 1967 - Durango, Mexico.

My work is the result of 36 years of technical and conceptual research in contemporary realist painting.
My painting is in a pre-maturity stage that already conveys its own identity, but its consistency requires new challenges and discoveries in its inexhaustible desire for creation.

Each painting is a new beginning and a new opportunity to rediscover and perfect my path.

My paintings are conversations that dialogue with the viewer to provoke questions and answers that they themselves carry within.
I want to calmly awaken the feeling that what is being observed belongs to a reality.

My characters are surrounded by external metaphors in simple or complex scenarios that
express my concepts and concerns; but my main function is to show an internal portrait that
communicates sensations and feelings in the viewer, regardless of whether it coincides with my narrative or not.
The women I usually paint, try with their clean gaze to whisper an invitation for you to look at
yourself and dialogue with your being listening to your own silence.
I am interested in generating an objective and also subjective reality.

As the years go by, I am grateful to begin to perceive the simplicity that allows us to stop
pretending to be what we are not.

Edgar Mendoza
Hondón de las Nieves, Alacant, Spain

January 2025

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