Juliao Sarmento
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Julião Sarmento is one of the most prolific and important contemporary Portuguese artists. Since 1974, he has been exploring the possibilities of different languages, such as photography, Super 8 film, performance, installation and painting. Throughout his practice, the female body has been a central theme, a provocative object of desire that activates the spectator in a voyeuristic and challenging encounter. This voyeuristic stance is often reinforced by the simple and impersonal rendition of the models, reduced to their bodily features, their silhouettes or close-ups. What we can see is at least as important as what is precluded to our vision and lies behind an immediate understanding. Desire and intimacy are balanced by a sense of distance and estrangement, while presence and memory, here and there, are constantly bridged, without ever touching.
Juliao Sarmento lives and works in Estoril, Portugal.
www.juliaosarmento.com
Artist Contact
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Artist News
L.A. Prints
Appleton Square, Lisboa, Portugal
1 April - 3 May 2008
Appleton Square
Seduced: Art and Sex from the Antiquity to Now
Barbican, London
(group show)
12 October 2007 - 27 January 2008
Barbican
The Invisible Show
CCA The Center for contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
8 November 2007 – 10 January 2008
CCA
Artist Exhibitions
Julião Sarmento February 22 - March 25, 2006View Exhibition
Julião Sarmento January 17 - March 7, 2002
View Exhibition
Artist Images
Woman In Love, 2006 Mixed media on canvas 90 x 90 x 4 cm
A Body To Touch, 2006 Mixed media on canvas 190.5 x 190.5 x 6 cm
A Human Form In A Deathly Mould, 1999 Fiberglass, resin, fabric, rope Dimensions variable
Amazônia, 1992 Wood, metal, cardboard, industrial paint, graphite and red dirt 294 x 512 x 312 cm
Emma (5), 1991 Mixed media on canvas 190 x 220 cm
Untitled (Bataille), 1976 25 black and white photographs and 25 photo-texts mounted on platex, 1 show-case 225 x 600 x 30 cm