Julião Sarmento

Birth : 1948-11-04, Lisbon, Portugal

Death : 2021-05-04

History

Julião Sarmento was born in 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal, and lives and works in Estoril, Portugal. He studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He is an interdisciplinary artist and throughout his career, Sarmento has worked in a wide range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, video, performance, sound and installation. He also developed several significant site-specific projects. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world over the past five decades. Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the 46th Venice Biennale (1997). He was included in Documenta 7 (1982) and Documenta 8 (1987), the Venice Biennale (1980 and 2001), and the São Paulo Biennale in 2002. His work is represented in many public and private collections in North and South America, Europe and Japan.

Profile

Movies

O Fim do Mundo

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Dual channel HD video; PAL (1080p); 16:9; Color; Stereo sound; 7' 43" 03Fr (loop) (Edition 2 + 1AP)

Twist of Fate

Costa

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.

Toile

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video transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 08' 02" 00Fr (edition of 3 + 3 AP)

Parasite

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video transferred to DVD, b&w, sound, 13' 51" 19Fr (edition of 6 + 1 AP)

Lacan's Assumption

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video transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 12' 07" 20Fr (edition of 12 + 3 APs)

Editor

Short film.

Screenplay

Short film.

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Short film.

Doppelgänger

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video installation, dual DVD projection, colour, sound, 16' 41" 15Fr (edition of 3 + 1 AP)

Untitled (Following)

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video installation, dual projection; Super 8 transferred to DVD, b&w, sound, 17’ 39’’ 21 Fr; Super 8 transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 17’ 09’’ 09 Fr (edition of 3 + 1 AP)

Julião Sarmento

A documentary on one of the most important Portuguese Plastic Artists, with greatest International projection. Shown here are his techniques, themes, and obcessions developed for over two decades, as well as its ramifications into different supports such as Video, Photography, literature, taking the rare oportunity granted by a full retrospective of his work at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, including the works dispersed through International collections.

Landscape

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video U-Matic, colour, sound, 12' (destroyed)

Faces

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The film Faces, 1976, is a kind of triptych. Two heads of hair, one blonde and one brunette, rub against each other at the bottom of the screen. This is followed by a close-up shot of two women kissing. The camera focuses on their mouths and tongues — licking, sucking and moving between and around each other. Eventually, while beautifully filmed, it becomes almost boring to watch. The final section depicts the two women seated, naked but with heavily fabricated faces, leaning their heads on the other's shoulders—a tender epilogue to the intensity of their performance.

1,2,3

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Super 8, colour, silent, 3' 20"