Estimate

5.250 - 6.500

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

From the series ‘Rua Stan Getz’, 2012
Ink jet print on Museo archival fine art paper
Ed.: 1/3 1 AP

126x160 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

André Cepeda is one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation.
During the 2000s he made a series of photographs of Porto, the
city where he lives and works, that showed the abandonment and
degeneration to which many of its buildings and inhabitants were
condemned.
The ‘Rua Stan Getz’ series was developed in the context of a residency
programme in São Paulo, Brazil. Cepeda photographed people, buildings
and architectonic details that contradict the predominant exotic
approach of the ‘Jungle City’ by juxtaposing melancholic portraits and
focusing on the impact of luxurious nature — especially palm trees —
on the city.
Stan Getz (1927–1991) was a North-American sax player who became
famous worldwide for the song ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ (1964) that gave
global impulse to the Bossa Nova movement. Taken individually or as a
group, the images composing this series announce the influence of music
on Cepeda’s work, based mainly in notions of cadence and rhythm.
Cepeda’s recent exhibitions include: ‘Untitled’, Old School, Lisbon
(2015); ‘Rien’, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal (2014);
‘O Processo SAAL: Arquitectura e Participação, 1974–1976’, Museu de
Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2014); ‘Lei de Ohm’, Museu
da Electricidade, Lisbon (2014); ‘Bienal de Fotografia do MASP’, MASP –
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo (2013); and ‘Visões do desterro’,
Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (2013). In 2007, Cepeda was
short-listed for the EDP Jovens Artistas Award; in 2011 the Paul Huf Prize
(Amsterdam); and in the following year the BES Photo Award. His most
recent book Rua Stan Getz (where this photograph is reproduced) was
published in 2015, by Pierre Von Kleist.