Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
One of the European artists who has best combined text, image, and movement, Juliao Sarmento's multidisciplinary oeuvre evinces the tension that exists between image and word, between what is explicitly biographical and the impossibility of all forms of narration. Over the past 26 years, Sarmento's work has revealed an intimate and passionate pre-occupation with desire, explored both in the realm of the speculative and the gestural. Within his work there is no chronology, no unfolding narrative, no apparent logic--simply glimpses of experience that give visual form to primordial desires, ones felt but not defined. Working with various media, including paint, print, photography, sculpture, and video, he determines to define the intangible gap between experience and memory, now and then.
Synopsis
Juli o Sarmento is one of the European artists who have best combined text, image and movement. Both in his early films produced in the mid seventies and in his most recent paintings, as well as in the piece entitled Close (2000) made in collaboration with the filmmaker Atom Egoyan, Sarmento's work evinces the tension that exists between image and word, between what is explicitly biographical and the impossibility of all forms of narration. This is the most complete monograph on his work, in which special importance is granted to the analyses afforded by the manifold contributions included in the study. The book includes a CD with an original sound piece by Arto Lindsay.