ass|c|ento diário . daily ass|cc|ent: 2011-05-01

7.5.11

"Sebastião Rodrigues era um designer de enorme qualidade em qualquer parte do mundo.

Foi um autodidacta porque a formação dele não era essa. Era um homem de imensa cultura

e mudou o paradigma do design em Portugal. O Sebastião pertenceu à primeira geração dos

designers em Portugal".

"Sebastião Rodrigues was a bigger than life world class designer. He was a self-taught

designer because that was not his professional background. He was a man of immense

cultural value who changed the paradigm of design in Portugal. Sebastião belonged to the

first generation of designers in Portugal".

texto Henrique Cayatte in www.tipografos.net

imagem para festival de teatro recusada | image for theatre festival refused

maquete | model ALMANAQUE julho | july

revista | magazine ALMANAQUE julho | july 1960

5.5.11

Marcel Broodthaers (January 28, 1924 - January 28, 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.

After spending 20 years in poverty as a struggling poet, he performed the symbolic act of embedding fifty copies of his book of poems Pense-Bête in plaster, creating his first art object. That same year, 1964, for his first exhibition, he wrote a famous preface for the exhibition catalogue:

"I, too, wondered wether I could not sell something and succeed in life. For some time I had been no good at anything. I am forty years old... Finally the idea of inventing something insincere finally crossed my mind and I set to work straightaway. At the end of three months I showed what I had produced to Philippe Edouard Toussaint, the owner of the Gaelerie St. Laurent. 'But this is art' he said 'and I will willingly exhibit all of it.' 'Agreed' I replied. If I sell something he takes 30%. It seems these are the usual conditions, some galleries take 75%. What is it? In fact it is objects."

Broodthaers, 1964