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"Grande Baía!" Leilão Incoerente
Angariação de fundos para 2011
19.12.2010 - Leilão silencioso a partir das 16h. Fecho "obra-a-obra" às 19h.
Largo dos Lóios 15, Porto

André Cepeda | André Guedes | André Sousa | António Bolota | Bruno Cidra | Carla Cruz | Carla Filipe | Carlos Lobato | César Figueiredo | Cristina Mateus | Daniel Barroca | Davide Balula | Emmett Williams | Gonçalo Sena | Isabel Ribeiro | João Giz | João Marçal | José Almeida Pereira | Juan Pablo Macías | Luís Espinheira | Mafalda Santos| Mauro Cerqueira | Manuel Santos Maia | Miguel Leal | Nuno Sousa Vieira | Nuno Ramalho | Paulo Mendes | Pedro Magalhães | Renato Ferrão | Ricardo Nicolau de Almeida | Stephan Dillemuth | Susana Mendes Silva | Vera Mota (artistas confirmados)

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LEILÃO

CÍRCULO DE ARTES PLÁSTICAS DE COIMBRA

online entre as 22h20 de 2ª feira, de 13 de Dezembro, e as 22h de 20 de Dezembro:

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/circulodeartesplasticasdecoimbra/

(procurar em: 'items for sale')

Albuquerque Mendes, Alice Geirinhas, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ana Rito, António Melo, António Olaio, António de Sousa, Arlindo Silva, Armando Azevedo, Baltazar Torres, Carlos Antunes, Carlos Vidal, Carlos Pinheiro, Catarina Saraiva, Emanuel Brás, Fabrízio Matos, Fernando Ribeiro, Fernando Graça & Penousal Machado, Francisco Cardoso Lima, Francisco Queirós, Inês Botelho, Isabel Ribeiro, João Nora, Julião Sarmento, Luís Alegre, Luísa Cunha, Manuel Gantes, Manuel Santos Maia, Miguel Ângelo Rocha, Miguel Palma, Nuno Ramalho, Pedro Cabral Santo, Pedro Pascoínho, Pedro Pousada, Pedro Valdez Cardoso, R2, Rita Castro Neves, Rodrigo Oliveira, Rui Ferreira, Susana Chiocca, José Maçãs de Carvalho, Sofia Leitão, Susana Mendes Silva, Valdemar Santos.

(todas as peças que não forem vendidas serão devolvidas aos artistas)

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Dan Colen (b. 1979)

Untitled (Vete al diablo), 2006
Wood, wire, polyurethane, papier mâché, gesso and oil paint, 182.8x121.9cm with 30.5cm tall base
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$290,500 (Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, November 8th, 2010, Lot 104)
Estimate US$150,000-250,000

Drawing from mass media, environmental experience and sub-cultural language, Dan Colen’s work infuses a sense of magic in the under valued and ordinary. In Untitled (Vete Al Diablo), a graffitied boulder is fictionally transplanted from suburban wasteland. Towering as a henge-like monument, it immediately conjures images of teenage ritual, exuding a reliquary aura as degenerate totem. It is in fact made from papier mâché expertly faux finished to look like the real thing. Colen creates a duplicity in the sculpture’s rough hewn appearance, elevating the overlooked and forsaken to a contemplative object of inspiring craftsmanship. [...]

Provenance Peres Projects, Los Angeles

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Christopher Wool (b. 1955)

One Year no Halloween (P464), 2004
Silkscreen ink on linen, 295x198.1cm
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$602,500 (Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, November 8th, 2010, Lot 105)
Estimate US$400,000-600,000

“As the media of written, spoken and visual information all around us are constantly increasing, and advertising is increasingly invasive, the human being has become practically immune to this textual harassment, with the result that the impact of the mass of information that we receive is ultimately not very effective because it is quickly eliminated from the brain. That is what Wool wants to tell us with his reproductions containing erased or semi-erased messages, with striking phrases which are decontextualized and therefore lose their original meaning and initiatory power, acquiring a different, more symbolic, more subjective power. From this artistic gesture we gather that nowadays there are certain deficiencies in information processes which make communication impossible, because the verbal language used in the medias is no longer sufficient to provide a clear understanding of reality” (F. Camps Ortiz, “Meanings,” Christopher Wool, Valencia, 2006, p. 196). [...]

Provenance Luhring Augustine, New York

Untitled (P180), 1993
Enamel on aluminum, 228.6x152.4cm
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$1,762,500 (Sotheby's, New York, November 9th, 2010, Lot 3)
Estimate US$1,200,000-1,800,000

Hole, 1992
Enamel on aluminum, 132.1x90.8cm
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$1,762,500 (Christie's, New York, November 10th, 2010, Lot 3)
Estimate US$1,200,000-1,800,000

Christopher Wool's Word paintings emerged during a time bursting with a rough and seedy aesthetic, incorporating dark humor in a post-modern way, effectively becoming an emblem of a current cultural phenomenon. Wool began using words as imagery as early as 1987 after seeing a brand new white truck with the words 'SEX LUV' hand-painted across it. This was an intensely creative period for Wool when he began to focus on double meanings of words or phrases. The ultimate effect was often only achieved when Wool broke them up in the composition of his paintings (...) With the same renegade authority as the graffiti message that inspired them originally, this incitement first to read and then to run has a street power. This art is not the descendent of advertising as Pop was, but is rather the product of the disjointed writings of the urban landscape, the warnings, boasts, insults and territorial markers of graffiti. Yet they can also be seen as illustrating the limits of painting at the time, demonstrating the fallacy of language and symbolic meaning in general and in art. [...]