Julião Sarmento

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JULIãO SARMENTO: WHITE NIGHTS
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775735292 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2013
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JULIAO SARMENTO: THE 90S
Afterword by Dan Cameron, Kevin Power et al.
EDICIONES POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434312913 | US $125.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2013
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JULIãO SARMENTO: CLOSE DISTANCE
Text by Adrian Searle.
EDICIONES POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434312784 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2011
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JULIãO SARMENTO: SERIES VOLUME 3
Text by Alexandre Melo.
EDICIONES POLíGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434312272 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2010
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JULIãO SARMENTO: SERIES
Edited by Dan Cameron.
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434311954 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2009
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JULIãO SARMENTO: WHAT MAKES A WRITER GREAT
Edited by Kevin Power.
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434311534 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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JULIãO SARMENTO
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434309913 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2004
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JULIãO SARMENTO: ECHO
Essays by Paulo Herkenhoff, Eva Meyer-Hermann, and Antonio Damaso.
RICHTER VERLAG
ISBN: 9783937572031 | US $42.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2004
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JULIãO SARMENTO: WORK 1981-1996
Artwork by Julio Sarmento. Edited by Nancy Spector. Contributions by Hubertus Gassner.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783893229413 | US $42.95
Pub Date: 7/2/1998
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JULIAO SARMENTO: RACIAL MAKEUP
Artwork by Julio Sarmento.
KORINSHA PRESS/CCA KITAKYUSHU
ISBN: 9784771334038 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 7/2/1998
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Julião Sarmento

Julião Sarmento: White Nights

A Retrospective

Text by John Baldessari, Douglas Gordon, Catherine Millet, Lawrence Weiner, Ulrich Wilmes, James Lingwood, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz

One of the most prominent Portuguese artists of his generation, Julião Sarmento (born 1948) began exhibiting film, video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation and multimedia works in the 1970s, developing various site-specific projects and becoming famed for his silhouettes of female figures. He has exhibited his work extensively, both nationally and internationally, and, in 1997, represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Julião Sarmento: A Retrospective is published to coincide with an exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, and features works from the late 1960s to the present. Heavily illustrated--with 180 reproductions in color, including images of all the works in the exhibition--the catalogue includes a project conceived and developed especially for it by the artist in collaboration with writer James Salter, along with short texts by John Baldessari, Douglas Gordon, Lawrence Weiner and others.

Juliao Sarmento: The 90s

Afterword by Dan Cameron, Kevin Power et al.
Published by Ediciones Poligrafa

Juliao Sarmento (born 1948) is one of Portugal’s most celebrated and internationally visible artists. Since the late 1960s, he has explored the principles of fragmentation and collage in a range of media (painting, drawing, sculpture, film and collage), using recurrent motifs and strategies such as silhouettes of headless female figures, torn photographs and fragments of text. The strongly allusive character of Sarmento’s works often requires the viewer to do some interpretative work--as he puts it, “the subject is what is not there”--and modernist literary or philosophical references (ranging from James Joyce to Ludwig Wittgenstein) provide the conceptual underpinning for certain of his serial works. Over the course of his 45-year career, Sarmento has been included in two Documentas and has represented Portugal in three Venice Biennales; his work is held in the permanent collections of numerous museums worldwide. With color reproductions of some 660 works, this superbly produced seven-volume slipcased set offers a complete overview of Sarmento’s various series of the 1990s.

Julião Sarmento: Close Distance

Text by Adrian Searle.
Published by Ediciones Poligrafa

Close Distance is both an exhibition and a collaborative artist's book by Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento and British writer Adrian Searle. Searle reviews Sarmento's output in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and film, which for Searle “speaks of sex, violence, the repressed, the unconscionable and the deliberately--provocatively--inexplicable.”

Julião Sarmento: Series Volume 3

Text by Alexandre Melo.
Published by Ediciones Polígrafa

Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento (born 1948) has developed a multimedia language that combines film, video, sound, painting, sculpture and installation. This is the third volume in an in-progress inventory devoted to the artist's work. It features series made from 1992-1994: Amazonas, Plateau, Cerco, Beja, Regine and The Awful Shapes of the Trees.

Julião Sarmento: Series

Volume 1

Edited by Dan Cameron.
Published by Poligrafa

This first volume of a two-volume edition features a decade of work by Lisbon-born multimedia artist Julião Sarmento, who represented Portugal in the 1997 Venice Biennale. Volume 1 collects series from 1990-1992: "Dias de Escuro e de Luz," "Emma," "O Rostro das Palavras," "Pina," "New York" and "O Percurso do Sol"; volume 2 will focus on Sarmento's text-based paintings, such as "What Makes A Writer Great" (2000-2001), produced as an ironic discourse on the subject. Sarmento in fact has a particular relationship to writing: "I function almost as a writer, not in the classic sense, but simply in the sense of writing with images." Sarmento's expressive, often figurative work addresses this very tension between text and image through a combination of film, video, sound, painting, sculpture and installation, often describing psychologically charged moments of sensuality, voyeurism or transgression.

Julião Sarmento: What Makes a Writer Great

Edited by Kevin Power.
Published by Poligrafa

Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento is renowed for using text to build up his paintings. This volume collects the series What Makes A Writer Great, produced in 2000-2001 as an ironic essay on the matter: “I function almost as a writer, not in the classic sense, but simply in the sense of writing with images.”

Julião Sarmento: Echo

Essays by Paulo Herkenhoff, Eva Meyer-Hermann, and Antonio Damaso.
Published by Richter Verlag

Ever since his participation in the 1982 Documenta, the artistic position of Julião Sarmento has been discussed in the context of Neo-Expressionism and Trans-avantguardia. A closer look at his work, however, reveals a different development of themes and narrative elements from his filmic and photographic work of the 1970s. While the parallel use of divergent techniques and media is not an end in itself, it can serve to visualize the insoluble poles of the sensuous and the conceptual as they appear in an individual work. Echo, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, provides a survey of the most important aspects of Sarmento's work over the last 30 years, including works of photography, film, painting and sculpture.

Julião Sarmento

Artwork by Juan Muìoz, Julião Sarmento. Contributions by Louise Neri. Text by Alexandre Melo, Simon Baker, Juan Carlos Marset, Chrissie Iles, Adrian Searle.
Published by Poligrafa

One of the European artists who has best combined text, image, and movement, Julião 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.

Julião Sarmento: Work 1981-1996

Artwork by Julio Sarmento. Edited by Nancy Spector. Contributions by Hubertus Gassner.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Juliao Sarmento: Racial Makeup

Artwork by Julio Sarmento.
Published by Korinsha Press/CCA Kitakyushu