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Lourdes Castro
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "All the Books", by Lourdes Castro (1930 - 2022), curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, held by the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in the temporary exhibition gallery of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, from July 9 to October 26, 2015.
Castro’s work is highly personal. Not that the political can be separated from her biography: like many Portuguese artists of her generation who fled António de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship, she moved to Paris in the late 1950s in order to work and to exhibit. There she started the handmade, silk-screened journal KWY with her then partner René Bertholo, which ran for 12 issues and was at the heart of an artistic community that included the likes of Christo and Jan Voss.
By the end of her life, she considered the plot of land where she lived in Madeira a canvas that she co-authored with nature and Manuel Zimbro, her longtime partner. “I carry on painting,” she said in Through Shadows (2010), a documentary about herself directed by Catarina Mourão. “A picture. Just one. It’ll never be finished. Even when I’m gone it’ll paint itself.”
Softcover
24 x 34 x 1.5 cm
160 pages
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Lourdes Castro
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "All the Books", by Lourdes Castro (1930 - 2022), curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, held by the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in the temporary exhibition gallery of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, from July 9 to October 26, 2015.
Castro’s work is highly personal. Not that the political can be separated from her biography: like many Portuguese artists of her generation who fled António de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship, she moved to Paris in the late 1950s in order to work and to exhibit. There she started the handmade, silk-screened journal KWY with her then partner René Bertholo, which ran for 12 issues and was at the heart of an artistic community that included the likes of Christo and Jan Voss.
By the end of her life, she considered the plot of land where she lived in Madeira a canvas that she co-authored with nature and Manuel Zimbro, her longtime partner. “I carry on painting,” she said in Through Shadows (2010), a documentary about herself directed by Catarina Mourão. “A picture. Just one. It’ll never be finished. Even when I’m gone it’ll paint itself.”
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Documenta.
2015Softcover
24 x 34 x 1.5 cm
160 pages
£70
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