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Surviving, 2011

Albano da Silva Pereira (b. 1950)


Estimate

2.000 - 3.000


Session

4 February 2016



Description

Ink jet print (Ultrachrome ink on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper), tape

67x100 cm


Category

Modern and Contemporary Art


Additional Information

Albano da Silva Pereira is a photographer who in the 1980s and 1990s
combined his artistic practice with the organization of the Encontros
de Fotografia de Coimbra and the artistic direction of CAV – Centro de
Artes Visuais (Visual Arts Centre) in the same city, thereby positioning
himself as one of the main promoters of photography in Portugal.
Silva Pereira’s very particular attention to light distinguishes his almost
exclusively black-and-white photographs. In a statement about his
nomination for the 2001 edition of the BES Photo Award, he wrote:
‘For me light is vital: be it brutal and violent in the desert or the shadow
or the darkness of the interior of a camping site — I do not use a flash.
The perfectionist and supposedly conceptual dimension of plasticity
and construction of the object do not interest me. I am a photographer
seduced by light, which is possibly the most important element of my
photographs. I am not interested in creating settings. Black and white
is the only manipulation I use. I am more interested in the poetic truth
than the supposedly realistic truth — I prefer a symbolic truth.’
‘Atlas S 1972–2012’, at CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal (2013); and ‘BES Photo 2012’, at Museu Colecção
Berardo, Lisboa (2012) were important exhibitions in the artist’s career.



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