Estimate

1.500 - 1.800

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Silkscreen on paper
Ed. 75

50x70,5 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

Manuel Casimiro’s heterodox artistic practice integrates painting,
sculpture, photography and film. His career reveals the importance of
research rather than the mere fabrication of objects and a constant
critique of the system of validation of art. That is perhaps why his
artistic practice of the 1970s is related to conceptual movements and
photography that was, at the time, very difficult to be absorbed by
the art market. This silkscreen is the case of a work that perpetuates
the image of a sculpture that has disappeared. It’s a city constructed
exclusively of packaging from products consumed by the artist in the
year of 1972 as a comment on the rise of consumerism and advertising.
This work is part of the collections of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea
de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, the Centro de Arte Moderna of the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, and of the Centro Galego de
Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Manuel Casimiro had a large retrospective organized by the Fundação
de Serralves, Porto, Portugal in 1996. His most recent exhibitions
include: ‘Pintar a ideia’, Galeria Tap Sea, Macau (2014); ‘Identidade(s)
? 2’, at Faculdade de Belas-Artes do Porto, Portugal (2015); ‘Voyage à
travers la peinture, la pensée’, CipM – Centre international de la poésie
Marseille, Marseille, France (2015); ‘Identidade(s)’, Galeria Municipal
de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal (2011) and ‘Caprichos’ (Whims),
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisboa (2008–09).