Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 15 February 2020

Contemporary Art

Sold for

ZAR 159 320
Lot 100
  • Francisco Vidal; If I am Free it's Because I am Always Running, No 2


Lot Estimate
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 159 320

About this Item

Francisco Vidal
Portuguese 1978
If I am Free it's Because I am Always Running, No 2

signed and dated 15

oil and handmade recycled paper mounted on canvas
255 by 255cm excluding frame

Notes

Vidal has titled this work – scrawled across the bottom of the painting – after a quote by the late Jimi Hendrix. When asked about the source of inspiration for his art, Vidal credits popular culture from the end of the 20th century. He explains “I saw a lot of television in the 80s, but also street communication like graffiti, hip-hop, MTV. My English is MTV English. I listened to a lot of Bob Marley and the Fugees, so there’s a lot of music and DJ-ing in the late 70s. There’s a lot of sampling, so there’s a lot of layers, a lot of ideas and rhythms and tones and colours. I think the culture of the 80s is a real influence and the painters of the 80s, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, a lot of different artists. Also, Andy Warhol and his silkscreen techniques and the idea of repetition…”1

Francisco Vidal was part of the official selection for the Angolan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. 

 

1. Emily Spicer. (2015) Francisco Vidal: ‘It’s an artist’s role to dream’, [Online], Available: https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/francisco-vidal-interview-workshop-maianga-mutamba-tiwani-contemporary-london [10 December, 2019].

Provenance

Tiwani Contemporary, London.

Private Collection.

Exhibited

Tiwani Contemporary, London, e-studio Luanda: African Industrial Revolution, 10 July to 15 August 2015.

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