Julião Sarmento
Joven en pie, mesándose los cabellos (Red), 2020
Acrylic "Gesso", graphite, water-based marker, silkscreen print and water-based enamel on linen canvas
185 x 200 cm
72 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
72 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
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The iconography and titles of each of the works in Julião Sarmento’s Arena series are loosely based on drawings by the Spanish Old Master, Francisco de Goya, seen by the...
The iconography and titles of each of the works in Julião Sarmento’s Arena series are loosely based on drawings by the Spanish Old Master, Francisco de Goya, seen by the artist at the Museo del Prado in 2019. Abstracted from their original context and reimagined on a grand scale, the figures in Sarmento’s paintings offer visions of human life, which are by turns haunting, comic and triumphant, while also disrupting a number of key art historical notions, namely, those of authorship, hermeneutics and the gaze.
Sarmento’s Joven en pie, mesándose los cabellos (Red), 2020 is based on Goya’s Young woman stroking her hair, 1794–1795, in which a young woman is depicted combing her hair alongside a bed in which another woman rests. The standing figure’s twisted torso resembles the traditional posture associated with desperation, as does the position of her hands, joined at the side of her head to hide her sorrow from the young woman on the bed.
Sarmento’s Joven en pie, mesándose los cabellos (Red), 2020 is based on Goya’s Young woman stroking her hair, 1794–1795, in which a young woman is depicted combing her hair alongside a bed in which another woman rests. The standing figure’s twisted torso resembles the traditional posture associated with desperation, as does the position of her hands, joined at the side of her head to hide her sorrow from the young woman on the bed.
Exhibitions
2021: Arena, Pilar Corrias, London (28/10/21 - 03/12/21)2021: Julião Sarmento, Arena, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (28 October - 3 December 2021)