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- 1980
- Fabriano paper
- Watercolour
- Inv. 04P1354
Fernando Calhau
S/Título #440 [Untitled #440]
A predilection for working in series and a monochromatic tendency are two of the characteristics of Fernando Calhau’s work that can be directly related to the sustained focus on printmaking which marked his early his artistic career. Indeed, building on an exploration sensitive to the principles of multiplication inherent to Pop Art, and informed above all by the serial proposals of minimalism – which were a clear reference, as would become increasingly evident in his work –, it was through printmaking that, from the end of the 1960s, the artist began to explore the use of reproduction and repetition in his work.
It is, to a certain extent, this insistence on a single project, and a single process, that can be identified in the series of watercolours produced in 1980, in which, amongst the dilution of forms, different landscapes can be glimpsed. Using a limited palette of earth tones, to which blue or grey are occasionally added, these watercolours are stains of colour which demonstrate a sustained exploration of the aqueous potential of the technique employed and which in a constant, yet subtle, progression, frequently exhibit minimal variations from one to another.
MBA
October 2011
Type | Value | Unit | Section |
Width | 19 | cm | |
Height | 15,7 | cm |
Type | signature |
Type | Donation |
Fernando Calhau, Desenho 1965-2002, Colecção CAM/JAP Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
Lisboa, Assírio e Alvim, 2007 |
ISBN:978-972-99979-5-2 |
Catálogo de exposição |
Fernando Calhau - Desenho 1965/2002, desenhos da Colecção do Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
Centro Cultural Vila Flor |
Curator: Nuno Faria |
22 de Setembro de 2007 a 30 de Dezembro de 2007 Palácio Vila Flor, Guimarães |
Exposição que reúne cerca de 200 desenhos de Fernando Calhau, da colecção do CAMJAP/FCG, que abarca praticamente toda a carreira do artista. |