- 1994
- Paper
- Mixed media
- Inv. 96DP1639
Julião Sarmento
Febre (16) [Fever (16)]
Edition Staatsgalerie Modern Kunst, München.
The drawing Fever relates to the series known as “White Paintings” that Julião Sarmento developed throughout the 1990’s. As in other Works from this series, the tracing appears unfinished. It does not describe shapes; it suggests situations, with na extraordinary restraint of means. The lines are organised as if barely touching the paper’s white surface, minimal elements of visual information, fragments of a scene recorded by the arttists’smemory. The bodies, guessed at rather than observed, possess no concrete substance. Space is undefined, without qualifying coordinates or objects. The framing merely renders the detail of an apparent movement of two protagonists apparent: a faceless one that we discover in the foreground thanks to the gesture of the hands held together by their fingertips. That figure – also identified by the curve that vaguely suggests the line of a shoulder – appears to be separated, in an ambiguous attitude that may suggested a distanced thoughtfulness or a meditative retreat. On the right, a second figure: with partially hidden facial features, of which we recognize the half-closed eyes. This last (feminine) figure appears to kiss or hold the shoulder of the first (male?) figure. The remaining actions is hidden away from the viewer’s eye, but the suggestion brought forth by the unfinished aspect of the image is that of affective tension or mismatch, a divergence or distancing, as if human relations ended up shipwrecked in the white sickness of solitude.
AFC
November 2011
Type | Value | Unit | Section |
Height | 70 | cm | |
Width | 50 | cm |
Type | date |
Text | 1994/95 |
Position | back |
Type | signature |
Text | Julião Sarmento |
Position | back |
Type | Acquisition |
Date | April 1996 |
Desenhos do Corpo / Drawings of the Body |
Lisbon, CAMJAP/FCG, 1995 |
Exhibition catalogue
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Linhas de Sombra / Lines of Shadow |
Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna, 1999 |
ISBN:972-635-115-4 |
Exhibition catalogue
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Arte Portugués desde 1960 en la Colección del Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão |
Corunha, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 1998 |
Exhibition catalogue
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Graphik Portfolio Zugunsten der Pinakothek der Moderne |
Munique, Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne / Galerie Bernd Klüser / Sabine Knust, 1997 |
Exhibition catalogue |
Desenhos do Corpo / Drawings of the Body |
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
Organization and selection of works: Alice Costa Guerra, Paulo Henriques and Rui Sanches. |
10 October 1995 to 28 January 1996 Gallery on Level 1 of the CAMJAP Museum |
22 July to 24 September 1995 José Malhoa Museum, Caldas da Rainha, |
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Linhas de Sombra / Lines of Shadow |
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
Curator: João Miguel Fernandes and Maria Helena de Freitas, programmed by Jorge Molder e Rui Sanches. |
29 January to 18 April 1999
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Arte Portugués desde 1960 en la Colección del Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão |
Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza |
Curator: Jorge Molder |
4 June to 15 September 1998 Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Corunha |