Estimate

5.000 - 7.500

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Plexiglas

206x156 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

Founding member of the Puzzle group and cofounder, with Albuquerque
Mendes, of the Espaço Lusitano Association / Art Gallery, in Porto (active
1976–81), Gerardo Burmester emerged in the second half of the 1970s,
when he began to develop his performative actions and a pictorial
work that associates neo-romantic references with ironic views on the
condition of painting.
Games of visual seduction, of approximation to and distancing from
the observer, and the recurrent use of a particular range of materials
that includes veneered wood, polished aluminum and industrial felt
distinguish the objects and installations that Burmester created from
the end of the 1980s.
The rhythm of transparency and opacity and the confrontation of
colours, lines and geometries are the defining features of this untitled
work, composed of a set of rectangular Plexiglas elements. Expression
and narrative don’t have a place here.
‘Obras da Coleção de Arte Contemporânea da Portugal Telecom’, Centro
de Arte Contemporânea de Bragança, Portugal (2013); ‘93’, CGAC –
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(2013); ‘Acervo da Árvore’, Cooperativa Árvore, Porto (2013); ‘Coleção
de Serralves: Obras recentes’, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de
Serralves, Porto (2013); and ‘As cores não dizem nada’, Centro de Arte
Contemporânea de Bragança, Portugal (2008) are some of the most
recent exhibitions where Burmester presented his work.