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The work of Julião Sarmento is shaped from the borderline.
‘Accidents are part of the performance.’ ‘The idea must be good when the concept is bare and everybody can see it.’ ‘There is no freedom when everything is controlled by institutions.’ ‘I do not do art for others, I do art for myself.’ ‘Art is the only space for freedom’... These words of Esther Ferrer, gathered over years of conversations, present us with a radical, independent, antiexhibition and free artist with her own ideas. All this has made her since the beginning of her work as an artist—in other words, since she began doing anything—into somebody uncomfortable yet admirable, an example for everybody and at the same time somebody who is difficult to adapt to the roles assigned to an artist by the system of art today.
The show WORK (always) IN PROGRESS proposes a sequential exploration of the key themes of Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work (Lisbon, 1956), encompassing representative series such as
Eugenio Granell and cinema: a twenty-minute film is an exhibition conceived by the Eugenio Granell Foundation for the CGAC to celebrate the centenary of the artist’s birth. The exhibition, centred around his facet as filmmaker, is part of a project involving several institutions in Santiago and offers a broader view of the different aspects of the work of this multidisciplinary artist.