Those small books are an in-progress-inventory of the series produced by Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento (Lisbon, 1948) since early nineties. Volume 1 collects the series created on 1990-1992: Dias de Escuro e de Luz, Emma, O Rostro das Palavras, Pina, New York and O Percurso do Sol. Volume 2 reproduces an unique body of works he made by using text to build the paintings.This series -What Makes A Writer Great- was produced on 2000-2001 as an ironic essay on the matter: ''I function almost as a writer, not in the classic sense, but simply in the sense of writing with images." Volume 3 collets the series the artist worked in on 1992-1994: Amazonas, Plateau, Cerco, Beja, Regine and The Awful Shapes of the Trees. Sarmento has exhibited extensively over the years through Europe and America, with recent solo shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington D.C.; Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid; and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. In 1997 he represented Portugal in the Venice Biennale.

 

64pp./ 22x28.5cm./ 96il./ Paperback with flaps

ISBN:
9788434312487 Castellano

25.00€
 




 

Close Distanceis both an exhibition and editorial project shared by Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento and British writer Adrian Searle.

Artists, it is often said, always do the same thing, however different their works might look, and even when they swap one medium for another, or seem to change direction or develop in unexpected ways. This is not necessarily a limitation, but more to signal an obsession, even if one cannot always say precisely what that obsession is. Artists, as the thinkers, are forever circling the same thing, even when they themselves don’t know exactly what it is. In Adrian Searle words “Sarmento's work has a particular tone, a timbre, a calculated distance, a certain coolness, while its subject matter is the opposite, volatile, ‘hot’ and unstable. […] It speaks of sex, violence, the repressed, the unconscionable and the deliberately – provocatively – inexplicable”.

This nice conceived and designed book collects the most important ways the artist use to create his works: painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and film.

 

Julião Sarmento. Close distance

Close distance
Adrian Searle

128pp./ 16.5x23.5cm./ 74il./ Hardcover

ISBN:
9788434312791
9788434312784
Castellano
English

25.00€
 




 

Fernando Prats' Gran Sur project was inspired by Ernest Shackleton's newspaper advert soliciting recruits for his fateful Antarctic expedition: "Men wanted for hazardous journey, low wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honour and recognition in case of success".

Through a compendium of photographs and archival materials, Prats' installation, recorded in this volume, draws out the implications of the blackly humorous advert to resonate with larger experiences of migration and dangerous travel.

In 2011 Fernando Prats (Santiago de Chile, 1967) represents Chile in the Venice Biennale.

 

 

Fernando Prats: Gran Sur

Paul Ardenne, Fernando Castro, Justo P. Mellado

256pp./ 17x24cm./ / tapa dura con sobrecubierta

ISBN:
9788434312890
9788434312906
Castellano
English

35.00€