- 1949
- Agfa paper
- Photography
- Inv. FP228/1
Fernando Lemos
Natal do Talho [Butcher’s Christmas]
The evocation of Christmas in an image of cut up animal carcasses on display in the window of a butcher’s shop is rather bizarre.
However, this was the ‘decoration’ chosen by a butcher on Av. Almirante Reis, in Lisbon, at Christmas time, replacing the traditional nativity figures with animal carcasses that, through their symmetry, guide the observer’s attention to the centre of the image, where we glimpse the simulation of a boxing match between two other animals in a ring decorated with sausages.
The scene was constructed by the butcher with no intention other than to attract customers, but it was Fernando Lemos’s gaze which transferred this intention to an aesthetic proposal, as though it were a ready-made.
José Oliveira
2022
| Type | Value | Unit | Section |
| Height | 50,7 | cm | |
| Height | 60 | cm | |
| Width | 60 | cm | |
| Width | 40,7 | cm |
| Type | A definir |
| A l´Ombre de la Lumière - Photobienalle 2008 |
| Casa da Fotografia de Moscovo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Moscovo |
| Curator: Casa da Fotografia de Moscovo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Moscovo |
| 27 de Março de 2008 a 27 de Abril de 2008 Galeria Zurab do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Moscovo |
| A Casa de Fotografia de Moscovo organizou, no âmbito da Photobiennale de 2008, uma exposição de Fernando Lemos, na Galeria Zurab no Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Moscovo. entre 27 de Março e 27 de Abril do ano de 2008. |