Estimate

9.000 - 10.000

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Acrylic on canvas

120x50 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

A member of the Puzzle group and cofounder, with Gerardo Burmester,
of the Associação Espaço Lusitano in Porto (1976–81), Albuquerque
Mendes played a key role in the revitalization of Portuguese art in the
1960s and 1970s. His paintings evoke and satirize the history of art
of the twentieth century as well as some of the iconographic myths of
Portuguese culture and society and the historical or national popular
imaginary — one of the rare manifestations of post-modernism and
neo-Dadaism in the Portuguese artistic context.
Depicting the face of an African man, this painting refers to the idea
of voyage while conjuring the maritime colonial Portuguese past. The
rotation of the horizon, here presented in a vertical position, serves
Albuquerque’s intention of questioning the idea of landscape.
Mendes’ recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Prometheus fecit – terra,
água, mão e fogo’, Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto (2014); ‘Estratégias
para de(mu)rar o tempo’, Casa Museu Ortigão Sampaio, Porto (2014);
‘23 décembre 1888’, Quase Galeria, Porto (2014); and ‘Paradoxos
degenerados: entre acções, pensamentos e obras’, Carpe Diem – Arte
e Pesquisa, Lisbon (2014).