Julião Sarmento was born in 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in 2021. The artist explored the terrain of desire and representation in an approach combining painting, video and sound and visual installations. He exploited a huge variety of combinations to create a series of works with recurring motifs: an archetypal woman, modernist architectural images, plant-like lines, references to literature and the cinema. A large part of his work addressed issues of fragmentation, the gap between real and fictional, and latent eroticism.
Fourth Easy Piece , 2014
Painted wall, 3D printing sculpture ABS resin and 10 murals
Variable dimensions
Normae , 2014
Polyvinyl acetate, pigment, acrylic gesso, water-based enamel and graphite on raw cotton canvas
48 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.
Five Frames (black and grey grey) , 2014
Indian ink on glass and metal frame, water-based enamel on glass, pen on paper, inkjet print on wooden frame
16 1/2 x 62 1/2 in.
Unukalhai , 2014
Polyvinyl acetate, pigment, acrylic gesso, graphite powder, acrylic and tempera on raw cotton canvas
36 5/8 x 31 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.
Three Frames (grey grey) , 2014
Indian ink on glass and metal frame, water-based enamel on glass on wood frame, inkjet print on wood frame
16 1/2 x 35 7/8 in.
Des fautes banales , 2011
Mixed media on canvas
65 x 57 in.
White Exit , 2011
Painted bronze, wood, stainless steel and glass
84 x 33 x 10 in.
Modernist Resilience , 2009
Mixed media on canvas
27 1/2 x 35 3/8 in.
You Are My Life , 2006
Mixed media on canvas
74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in.
I Live for You , 2006
Mixed media on canvas
35 3/8 x 35 3/8 in.
Gloria , 2006
Mixed media on canvas
43 1/4 x 35 3/8 in.
Lick My Eyes , 2005
Mixed media on canvas
72 7/8 x 74 7/8 in.
