Jorge Méndez Blake - OMR

Jorge Méndez Blake

Guadalajara, Mexico, 1974
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico

Throughout his career, Jorge Méndez Blake has explored the intersections of literature, visual arts, and architecture. He skillfully translates language and narratives into visual compositions, including sculptures, drawings, paintings, installations, murals, and videos, often paying homage to the great masters of universal literature such as William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Franz Kafka, and Jorge Luis Borges.

A significant part of Méndez Blake's practice is dedicated to the concept of the library. For the artist, the idea of the “library” surpasses its traditional definition of a building historically used for keeping books and spreading knowledge: He sees them as relational systems with inexhaustible sources of information in which historical and cultural dimensions of a given context converge.

Méndez Blake’s work oscillates between reality and fiction when merging the architecture of places like the Library François Mitterand in Paris, or the Public Library in Seattle, with landscapes – and fragments – of fantastic literature, to become cultural metaphors which meaning expands to different areas of knowledge.

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Ars poetica (Juan Gelman) VI, 2023

Acrylic on linen

48 x 59 7/8 in

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Project for Amphitheater (Architecture of Discussion) I, 2020

Moca marble

27 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in Weight: 1,120 kg. approx.

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Esquina poética, 2019

Neon

1 piece 15 3/4 x 3 x 3 in 1 pìece 13 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 in

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Pausa (Verde) / Pause (Green), 2017

Typewriter, marble base

39 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 in

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An Essay on Contemplation, 2018

Injection of ink, ink, pencil and colored pencil on paper

Polyptych 30 pieces - variables dimensions

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Amphitheater Reconstruction (We Sit, We Listen, We Discuss) VII , 2023

Colored pencil on paper

59 x 110 1/4 in

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Ars poetica (Charles Bukowski) II, 2022

Acrylic on linen

78 x 102 in

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Proyecto de columna-anfiteatro (Arquitectura de la discusión) I , 2020

Concrete, Negro Monterrey marble

125 x 46 x 46 cm

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Jorge Méndez Blake | Dismantled Wasteland | Art Basel Unlimited

2023

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