OUTSIDE_51 Artists living abroad
Curator: Joao Pinharanda
09.06-30.09.2008
Museu da Presidência da República_Viana do Castelo_Portugal
THE COLLECTOR. 2007
Photographs: C-Print mate on Alu-Dibond 3 mm. 21 x (75x75cm).
The project is inspired by a passage in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (1927–40): “The collector… brings together what belongs together; by keeping in mind their affinities and their succession in time, he can eventually furnish information about his objects…. As far as the collector is concerned, his collection is never complete; for let him discover just single piece missing and everything he has collected remains a patchwork.” Informed by these words, the works on view are a collection of self-portraits, thought which Sendas examines this historical mode of introspection derived from artistic way of live as an iconographic device, with particular reference to the self-portraits of canonical artists from the Renaissance to the present. (…) The self-portrait images are cut and pasted in elegant combinations that evoke modernist aesthetics–for example, Sarah Lucas and Velásquez, Velásquez and Durer, Durer and Mapplethorpe. Andy Warhol’s face meets that of the Portuguese Aurélia de Sousa, while Bruce Nauman can be found in a pairing with Goya that possesses a rare, albeit, grotesque, beauty. In deconstructing and reconfiguring these well-known faces of Western art, Sendas satisfies his iconoclastic impulse.
ARTFORUM, October 2007, text by Miguel Amado, 2007
Photographs: C-Print mate on Alu-Dibond 3 mm. 21 x (75x75cm).
The project is inspired by a passage in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (1927–40): “The collector… brings together what belongs together; by keeping in mind their affinities and their succession in time, he can eventually furnish information about his objects…. As far as the collector is concerned, his collection is never complete; for let him discover just single piece missing and everything he has collected remains a patchwork.” Informed by these words, the works on view are a collection of self-portraits, thought which Sendas examines this historical mode of introspection derived from artistic way of live as an iconographic device, with particular reference to the self-portraits of canonical artists from the Renaissance to the present. (…) The self-portrait images are cut and pasted in elegant combinations that evoke modernist aesthetics–for example, Sarah Lucas and Velásquez, Velásquez and Durer, Durer and Mapplethorpe. Andy Warhol’s face meets that of the Portuguese Aurélia de Sousa, while Bruce Nauman can be found in a pairing with Goya that possesses a rare, albeit, grotesque, beauty. In deconstructing and reconfiguring these well-known faces of Western art, Sendas satisfies his iconoclastic impulse.
ARTFORUM, October 2007, text by Miguel Amado, 2007
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