Julião Sarmento
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Julião Sarmento is a Portuguese multimedia artist and painter.
He was born in Lisbon
(1948), studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He began exhibiting film, video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation and multimedia in the seventies, but also developed several significant site-specific projects.
He has exhibited his work extensively in one-man and group shows. Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the Venice Biennial in 1997. His work is represented in several museums and private collections, including a partial room showing at London's Tate Modern museum.
The work featured is largely collage-based or a combination of collage and sketched images, and range from takes on popular culture to excerpts from a love letter written by James Joyce to his wife Nora entitled Dublin-Trieste 2 December 2009 (featured at the Tate Modern). This is a series of photo-and-sketch-based work inspired by select lines from Joyce's letter. When placed together the viewer reads, "...there is also a wild beast-like craving for every inch of your body, for every secret and shameful part of it, for every odour and act of it..."
Julião Sarmento lives and works in Estoril
, Portugal
, with wife Isabel, and children Laura and Duarte.
He was born in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
(1948), studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He began exhibiting film, video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation and multimedia in the seventies, but also developed several significant site-specific projects.
He has exhibited his work extensively in one-man and group shows. Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the Venice Biennial in 1997. His work is represented in several museums and private collections, including a partial room showing at London's Tate Modern museum.
The work featured is largely collage-based or a combination of collage and sketched images, and range from takes on popular culture to excerpts from a love letter written by James Joyce to his wife Nora entitled Dublin-Trieste 2 December 2009 (featured at the Tate Modern). This is a series of photo-and-sketch-based work inspired by select lines from Joyce's letter. When placed together the viewer reads, "...there is also a wild beast-like craving for every inch of your body, for every secret and shameful part of it, for every odour and act of it..."
Julião Sarmento lives and works in Estoril
Estoril
Estoril is a seaside resort and civil parish of the Portuguese municipality of Cascais, Lisboa District. The Estoril coast is close to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It starts in Carcavelos, 15 kilometres from Lisbon, and stretches as far as Guincho, often known as Costa de Estoril-Sintra or...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, with wife Isabel, and children Laura and Duarte.