• 1972
  • Canvas
  • Acrylic paint and Graphite
  • Inv. 73P415

Álvaro Lapa

Voici nos Acteurs

Voici nos Acteurs belongs to the series of works entitled Auto-auto-retratos [Self-self-portraits], made between 1971 and 1972. Lapa notes that this project deals with the representation of the artist’s own body as image and sensation, rather than as subjected to the arbitrariness of social conventions of bodily representation. This is the last and the most finished of a particular group of self-self-portraits, of a series of faces, formally influenced by the work of Michaux. Of all of this Belgian artist’s works, Lapa liked best the “heads”, watercolour representations of the artist himself. Whether masked or featureless, each is “a face that has not yet found its countenance”. Lapa’s image emerges from the organisation of forms, marks and colours, with an inscription in the artist’s own hand on the left side of the canvas, from the book Nova Express (1964) by William Burroughs, whence also the title of this painting. Lapa has observed that this is a representation of the custodial face of Burroughs, a painter-writer whom he considered a role model. This empty face suggests, then, the double representing the subject himself; not a “portrait”, but a possible distorted vision of the self.

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TypeValueUnitSection
Height100cm
Width81cm
   
   
   
Typesignature
TextLapa
Positionlower right corner
Typedate
Text72
Positionlower right corner
Typeother
Textet j'ai vu le Mister comme un enfant dans une chambre tapissée rose regardant quelque/ chose que je pouvais voir
Positionfront
TypeAcquisition
Date1973
70-80 Art in Portugal
Philadelphia / Lisboa, Porto of History Museum e Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, 1987
Exhibition catalogue
Pintura portuguesa de hoy - abstractos y neofigurativos
Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, 1973
Exhibition catalogue
Arte Portuguesa Contemporânea
Brasilia, [s.n.], 1976
Exhibition catalogue
100 pintores portugueses do século XX
Lisboa, Alfa, 1986
Monography
Pintura Portuguesa no século XX
Porto, Lello Editores, 1996
Monography
100 Quadros Portugueses no Século XX
Lisboa, Quetzal, 2000
Monography
História da arte em Portugal: Pioneiros da modernidade. Vol. 12
Lisboa, Alfa, 1988
Monogrphy
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
Artistas em Évora no Século XX
Évora, Câmara Municipal de Évora, 1996
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
Álvaro Lapa
Lisboa, Fundação EDP, Assírio & Alvim, 2006
Monography
Fisuras na Percepción - 25ª Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra
Pontevedra, Deputación Provincial de Pontevedra, 1998
Exhibition catalogue
Antevisão do Centro de Arte Moderna
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
 
July to September 1981
 
Álvaro Lapa: paisagens e obras-com-palavras
Fundação EDP
Curator: João Pinharanda
24 November 2006 to 28 February 2007
City Museum - Balck and White Pavillions
 
70-80 Art in Portugal
Port of History Museum
Curator: José Sommer Ribeiro, Fernando Calhau, Rui Mário Gonçalves
November 1987 to January 1988
Philadelphia
 
Arte Portuguesa Contemporânea
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Curator: Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros
December  1976 to 1977
Museu de Arte Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo
December 1976 to 1977
Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Brasília
December 1976 to 1977
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
 
Pintura portuguesa de hoje - abstractos e neofigurativos
May to June 1973
Universidade de Salamanca
July 1973
Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes
24 April to 6 May 1973
Palacio de la Virreina
 
Extremo Occidente - Arte Portugués Contemporáneo en la Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
 
 
1995-03-07 to 1995-04-23
Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde, Bilbao
 
Artistas em Évora no Século XX
 
Curator: Rui Mário Gonçalves

1996

Évora, Portugal

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
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
 
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, Lisboa
 
Fisuras na Percepción - 25ª Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra
Pazo de Congresos e Exposicións de Pontevedra
Curator: Xosé Carlos Valle Pérez, Alberto González-Alegre e Miguel von Hafe Pérez.
1998-08-01 to 1998-09-20
Pazo de Congresos e Exposicións de Pontevedra, Espanha
 
Updated on 23 january 2015

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