Julião Sarmento: What Makes a Writer Great -Series 2000/2001 + The Dias de Escuro e de Liz Series 1990/1992 Superprijs

Two-volume edition features a decade of work by Lisbon-born multimedia artist Julião Sarmento (1948-2021), who represented Portugal in the 1997 Venice Biennale. Volume 1 collects series from 1990-1992: “Dias de Escuro e de Luz,” “Emma,” “O Rostro das Palavras,” “Pina,” “New York” and “O Percurso do Sol”; volume 2 will focus on Sarmento’s text-based paintings, such as “What Makes A Writer Great” (2000-2001), produced as an ironic discourse on the subject. Volume 2 collects the series What Makes A Writer Great, produced in 2000-2001 as an ironic essay on the matter: “I function almost as a writer, not in the classic sense, but simply in the sense of writing with images.”