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Portugal, 2007
This third publication of the association ADIAC
(Associação para a Difusão Internacional
de Arte Contemporanea) is dedicated to Vasco Araújo. ADIAC's
goal is to produce comprehensive literature on young artists which
can be distributed in Portugal and abroad, in order to create
awareness of the high standard of Portuguese contemporary art.
These books are sent to the main international museums, art critics
and galleries to which we think they may be of interest. We are
thus happy to note that the book about the artist Miguel Palma
granted him access to the Almine Rech gallery in Paris and entrance
into the collection of Luxemburg's Museum of Modern Art (Mudam),
and also gave him the opportunity to develop his work in New York
during a residency at Location One in February 2007.
We have been following Vasco Araujo's career
from “La Stupenda”, a video presented at the Filomena
Soares gallery (Lisbon, 2001), up to “Made in France”
at the Gabrielle Maubrie gallery (Paris, 2005) including his most
recent works such as “The Experience of Art” in the
Italian pavilion at Venice Biennale (2005) and “O que eu
fui” at the Filomena Soares gallery in March and April of
the same year.
Vasco received training as a lyric singer, a
feature which has been reflected in his material which uses voice
over video or photography to explore seduction gestures, cultural
stereotypes, political simulacra as well as a reflection on the
sexual identity. The artist also uses the game of masquerades
as a grand theatrical deception. This approach is especially obvious
in the series “O que eu fui”, in which the moments
immediately before death are played out in this manner. The pictures
of the sculptures talk, throwing the viewer who as a result can
no longer discern where reality ends and fiction begins. Vasco
Araújo's work follows the tradition of Baroque art showing
us a world of thoughts full of literary references and art history
references, leading us to the criticism of our society that fluctuates
between truth and artifice.
ADIAC is honored to participate in the international
promotion of this artist, an action greatly anticipated by many
critics in the international arena. For those who are witnessing
Vasco Araujo's work for the first time, ADIAC is pleased to create
this opportunity. We wish you pleasant reading and an enjoyable
discovery!
António da Veiga Pinto / Marc
Pottier
ADIAC - Portugal
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