Estimate

6.000 - 8.000

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Plywood, wood and iron

70x50x28 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

Rui Sanches belongs to a group of artists who were responsible in the
1980s for the revitalization of the Portuguese artistic context and the
return to painting and sculpture.
Sanches’ sculptures are easily recognizable because, rather than
produced by the classical methods — modulation, foundry, whittle —,
they are composed by multiple layers of plywood juxtaposed until they
define certain forms. This choice of mundane materials that are not
commonly employed in artworks is aimed at bringing the work into
daily life. On the other hand, the artist explains that ‘I like non-natural
materials that are not found in nature, that have been processed and
worked industrially such as plywood and pluming materials’.
In the 1980s and 1990s Sanches’ sculptures were based on the history
of Western classical painting and modern sculpture and were composed
of elements positioned in a way to avoid a single point of view and
provoke the observer to move around the work. Lately his works have
lost these references and present a more condensed configuration,
sometimes anthropomorphic — as is the case with his well-known
series of heads.
Amongst his latest exhibitions are: ‘Dentro do desenho’, Fundação
Carmona e Costa, Lisbon (2014); ‘Bustos e cabeças’, Galeria do Parque,
Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal (2014); ‘Aqui e além’ (with Michael
Biberstein), Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon (2011); and ‘Rui
Sanches: Escultura e desenho’, Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova,
Portugal (2011).