INVITATION | Opening of Julião Sarmento’s Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil | 11/05/2022, 5 to 9 p.m.

The Museu Coleção Berardo has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of Julião Sarmento's exhibition Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil, on Wednesday, 11 May, from 5 to 9 p.m., with free admission. 

Julião Sarmento (1948–2021) was one of the most internationally recognised Portuguese artists, having developed an artistic career that was immensely coherent, rich, and intense. Constantly renewing himself, closely connected with the artistic practices of his time, and strongly influenced by the culture of English-speaking countries and the themes and images of literature and film, he employed a diverse range of methods and techniques to establish a concise vocabulary of ambiguous images. His work has a performative and theatrical dimension, which accumulates through the constant evocation of timeless themes and representations—such as the woman, sexuality, transgression, memory, duality, home, the word—which operate as structural axes of his work.
The exhibition Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil brings together a very significant selection of works which is the result of a close collaboration between the artist and the curator Catherine David.

The exhibition 

Opening: Facebook Event

Image:
Julião Sarmento, Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil, 1997.
Polyvinyl acetate, pigment, and graphite on raw cotton canvas. 250 x 399 cm.
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (Badajoz).
Photo: Archivo fotográfico del Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo