Index Code:

ART-OAT-SAR

Orgin:

Portugal

Field Notes:

Doors walls and cropped bodies are arranged so that desire and memory occupy literal gaps

Defining Moment:

The installations with projected figures and partial rooms where absence is built into the structure of the scene

Julião Sarmento

(

1948–2021

)

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Sarmento built a world where image and absence entwine — gestures, silhouettes, and fragments arranged as psychological architecture.

His works hold tension like a suspended narrative, clarity drifting through suggestion.

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Julião Sarmento’s work, this approach appears where gesture replaces figuration as structure.

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Julião Sarmento’s work, this approach appears where gesture replaces figuration as structure.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Conceptual Art

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Julião Sarmento

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Observartory

In Dialogue

Julião Sarmento

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue