• 1974
  • Paper
  • Indian ink and Watercolour
  • Inv. 98DP1729

Eduardo Batarda

Ao Exp. Abs. 2 (Se é boa a Mulher do Neves (é favor não fazer festas)) [For Exp. Abs. 2 (If Neves’s wife is tasty (please no caressing))]

In this watercolour, as in For Abs. Exp. 1, we are shown a map patched together into an anthropomorphic form, a Frankenstein of erudite and vernacular allusions – political, literary, popular and artistic – both fictional and real. These allusions are accompanied by comments on the work itself, linking the practice of painting (and especially those of process painting and the French group Supports/Surfaces) to that of haberdashery and sewing. The palette here is darker than in Abs. Exp. 1, and the metaphor becomes more venomous, also using phallic images. The framing border of this false strategic map (or map locating a ‘treasure trove’) is carefully cut, following the edge of the drawing. Here again, we find a pastiche of brush marks, referring both to gestural painting and to the accidents that occur in painting – blots, splats, drips – but also a satiric critique of the very fact that these accidents (and other products of mishap or chance) were considered to be works of art by some early modernists as well as the vanguards of the 1970s. The montage of quotations in this work, as in other watercolours of the same period, also brings together various other concerns, resulting in an unsettling vexation of the history of art, and of the work of the artist himself.

 

 

MPS

 

May 2010

TypeValueUnitSection
Width55,5cm
Height37cm
Typesignature
Typedate
TypeAcquisition
Eduardo Batarda: Pinturas, 1965-1998
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José Azeredo Perdigão, 1998
Catálogo de exposição
Eduardo Batarda Fernandes
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1975
Catálogo de exposição
Eduardo Batarda - Pinturas 1965-1998
CAMJAP/FCG
Curator: Alexandre Melo
3 de Março de 1998 a 10 de Maio de 1998
Galeria do piso 1 do museu do CAMJAP
Exposição comissariada por Alexandre Melo.
Eduardo Batarda Fernandes
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Curator: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
1975-08-01 a 1975-08-31
Galeria de Exposições Temporárias da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
Exposição patente na Galeria de Exposições Temporárias da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, em Agosto de 1975, dedicada a Eduardo Batarda, enquanto bolseiro da FCG.
Portuguese Contemporary Art
Exposição apresentada em Belgrado, Bucareste, Atenas, Sofia, no ano de 1977.
Updated on 23 january 2015

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