• 1969
  • Wood and Canvas
  • Acrylic paint and Painted wood
  • Inv. 80P413

Helena Almeida

Untitled

This work by Helena Almeida belongs to the first phase of her artistic development, characterized by three-dimensional paintings. The conventional canvas support is explored through its physical and architectural concreteness.

 

Her work is thus, from the start, a critical exercise on and about painting – critical in the etymological sense of crisis and growth – in which the artist dismantles the logical structure and the perception of painting. The Renaissance concept of the painting as window is here taken to its limit by the transformation of the canvas into a kind of physical window. As such, it is factual but completely functionless: this “window” doesn’t overlook a landscape or scene, but only an orange color plane and the concrete wall on which it is hung.

 

The relationship between fullness and emptiness, between presence and absence, performs something in these early works that will later become a constant feature: the “corporalization” of painting.

 

 

IC

May 2010

TypeValueUnitSection
Width106cm
Height103cm
Typesignature
Typedate
TypeAcquisition
Heimo Zobernig e a Colecção do Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/ Heimo Zobernig and the Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Modern Art Centre; Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Colllection/ Heimo Zobernig e a Colecção da Tate
Lisboa/ St. Ives, 2009
ISBN:978-1-85437-826-2
Catálogo de exposição
Transfert - Obras do CAMJAP em Itinerância/ Itinerant CAMJAP works
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Curator: Leonor Nazaré
16 de Junho de 2007 a 8 de Setembro de 2007
Palácio da Galeria/ Museu Municipal de Tavira
Exposição organizada no âmbito do programa O Estado do Mundo.
Heimo Zobernig e a Colecção do Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
CAM/FCG
Curator: Jürgen Bock
11 de Fevereiro de 2009 a 31 de Agosto
Centro de Arte Moderna
Exposição realizada em parceria com a Tate St. Ives. Inclui obras da colecção da Tate de St. Ives, do Centro de Arte Moderna e do artista Heimo Zobernig. De 24 de Maio a 31 de Agosto de 2009 estiveram expostas apenas as obras do CAM escolhidas pelo artista.
Exposição Permanente do CAM
CAM/FCG
Curator: Jorge Molder
18 de Julho de 2008 a 4 de Janeiro de 2009
Centro de Arte Moderna
Exposição Permanente entre 18 de Julho de 2008 a 4 de Janeiro de 2009.
Updated on 23 january 2015

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