Estimate

2.000 - 3.000

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Acrylic paint on paper

122x153 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

Painting constitutes the centre of Bruno Pacheco’s artistic practice,
which also includes drawing, the production of objects and video.
A constant questioning of the relationship between photography
and painting, his work is often born from photographs, newspapers,
magazines, advertising materials and images found via internet which he
integrates in a large archive together with his own images.
A short brushstroke, the exploration of the velatura and a significant
loss of definition that generates an imprecise quality in the image are
the most distinctive features of the artist’s paintings on paper, of which
Birds and Foliage, 2005 is a magnificent specimen. With photography
as a reference, the artist highlights the process of recomposing and
reframing related to the photographic transformation in pictorial
representation.
Pacheco’s latest solo exhibitions include: ‘Mar e campo em três
momentos’, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal (2012);
‘Uma história de amor’, Chiado 8 – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2011);
‘ainda não’, Culturgest, Porto (2009); and ‘All together’, Culturgest,
Lisbon (2007). In 2005 he was awarded the Prémio União Latina.