- 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.
AS
Type | Value | Unit | Section |
Height | 100 | cm | |
Width | 81 | cm | |
Type | signature |
Text | Lapa |
Position | lower right corner |
Type | date |
Text | 72 |
Position | lower right corner |
Type | other |
Text | et j'ai vu le Mister comme un enfant dans une chambre tapissée rose regardant quelque/ chose que je pouvais voir |
Position | front |
Type | Acquisition |
Date | 1973 |
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 |