• 1974
  • Platex
  • Acrylic paint and Collage
  • Inv. 75P416

Álvaro Lapa

Os Criminosos e as suas Propriedades [Criminals and their Properties]

Os Criminosos e as suas Propriedades [Criminals and their Properties] is a work from the eponymous series, shown at the Buchholz Gallery in Lisbon in 1975. The black grid is the formal element that links all these works: everything happens outside of this suggestion of a barred window. A background is established by the encounter of the black of the grid with the green surface. This ground is traversed by a red horizontal bar and a collaged strip of paper, with an inscription: “requerimento p/instalar um baloiço do tipo infantil, c/ a promessa de não o utilizar (servindo apenas p/ver)” [application f. installation of a children’s swing, w. the assurance of not using it (serving only t. be seen)]. The written word destabilises the reading of the work, setting up a dialogue with the image and establishing a certain inconsistency between the verbal and the visual. The fine red and blue lines of the “swing” dividing the surface now contrast with the black marks of the grid. The work’s title alludes to the artist’s own life, referring to the times he visited his father in prison. Other points of reference might be the book My Properties (1929) by Henri Michaux, an artist who, like Lapa, sought to find correspondences between the acts of writing and painting. The title would then allude to the properties of the imagination as an instrument for structuring the self, the mark of a personal mythology via the artist’s thoughts, desires and memories.

 

 

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TypeValueUnitSection
Height64cm
Width125cm
   
   
   
TypeAcquisition
DateAugust 1975
50 Anos de Arte Portuguesa
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007
ISBN:978-972-678-043-4
Exhibition catalogue
Weltliterature. Madrid, Paris, Berlim, S. Petesburgo, o Mundo!
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Serviço de Educação e Bolsas
ISBN:9789723112511
Exhibition catalogue
Hors Catalogue - Un projet Gulbenkian à propos de sa collection
Amiens, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, 1997
ISBN:2 903082 70 8
Exhibition catalogue
 
 
 
 
Levantamento da arte do século XX no Porto: exposição
Vila Nova de Gaia, Rocha/ Artes Gráficas, 1975
Exhibition catalogue
Roteiro do Centro de Arte Moderna
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, 1985
Guide
Portuguese contemporary painting : Collection of the Modern Art Center, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1992
Exhibition catalogue
Pequeno Roteiro da Colecção de Arte do Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, 1996
Exhibition catalogue
Pintura Portuguesa no século XX
Porto, Lello Editores, 1996
Monography
Enciclopédia luso-brasileira de cultura. 4º. Vol.
Lisboa, Verbo, 1963
Dictionary
História da Arte Portuguesa: Do Barroco à Contemporaneidade. Vol. III
Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995
Monography
Weltliteratur: Madrid, Paris, Berlim, São Petersburgo, O Mundo!
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Serviço de Educação e Bolsas, 2008
Exhibition catalogue
Extremo Occidente - Arte Portugués Contemporáneo en la Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE, 1995
Exhibition catalogue
Álvaro Lapa: A Voz das Pedras
Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2006
Monography
Álvaro Lapa: Retrospectiva
Porto, Fundação de Serralves, 1994
Exhibition catalogue
Colagem e Montagem
Lisboa, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, 1975
Exhibition catalogue
Arte Moderna Portuguesa 1968 - 1978: Obras Pertencentes às Colecções da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura e da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Lisboa, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, 1979
Exhibition catalogue
Porto 60 /70: os Artistas e a Cidade
Lisboa, Edições Asa, Árvore - Cooperativa de Actividades Artísticas, Fundação de Serralves, 2001
Exhibition catalogue
Álvaro Lapa
Lisboa, Fundação EDP, Assírio & Alvim, 2006
Monography
Colagem e Montagem
Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes
 
July 1975
SNBA, Lisbon
 
Hors Catalogue - Un projet Gulbenkian à propos de sa collection
CAMJAP/FCG
Curator: João Fernandes
December 1996 to February 1997
Casa da Cultura de Amiens, France
 
50 Anos de Arte Portuguesa
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Curator: Raquel Henriques da Silva, Ana Ruivo and Ana Filipa Candeias
6 June to 9 September 2007
Central building FCG, Level 0 and 01
 
Weltliteratur - Madrid, Paris, Berlim, São Petesburgo, o Mundo!
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Curator: António M. Feijó
30 September 2008 to 4 January 2009
Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
 
Álvaro Lapa: paisagens e obras-com-palavras
Fundação EDP
Curator: João Pinharanda
24 November 2006 to 28 February 2007
City Museum, White and Black Pavilllions
 
Porto 60/70: os Artistas e a Cidade
Museu de Serralves
 
25 January to April 2001
Museu de Serralves, Porto
25 January to April 2001
Cooperativa Árvore, Porto
 
Levantamento da arte do século XX no Porto
July 1975
Centro de Arte Contemporânea - Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
 
Portuguese contemporary painting : Collection of the Modern Art Center, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
25 January to 15 February 1992
National Gallery of Modern Art
Álvaro Lapa: Retrospectiva
CAM/FCG
Curator: Fernando Pernes
1994-05-19 to 1994-07-17
Fundação de Serralves, Porto
1994-09-06 to 1994-10-30
CAM, FCG
 
Os Criminosos e as suas propriedades - exposição de literatura
Buchholz Gallery
 
1975-05-01 to 1975-05-31
Buchholz Gallery, Lisbon
Arte Moderna Portuguesa 1968 - 1978: Obras Pertencentes às Colecções da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura e da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
 
Curator: Rui Mário Gonçalves
1979-09-01 to 1979-09-30
Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon
 
Updated on 23 january 2015

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