Delfim Sardo, a conversation with Calapez
You began your career in painting but before that you were a photographer. Did your work in that field have an effect on the work you have developed in painting? The other day I was just thinking about that. I held two exhibitions of photographs, although professionally I was a commercial photographer. I’m not sure whether there is a relationship. I first displayed some work at a group show at the Sociedade de Belas-Artes, Figuração/Abstracção, (Figuration/Abstraction) in 1976. I wrote a text for the catalogue and displayed some picture frames with glass but no images. At another exhibition I displayed a huge photograph in black and white in marked contrast, which was part of a series of negatives which I could enlarge for a retrospective, and which, good or bad, were art work. I also took part in a group show with photographs of television screens, the photographs did not get a good reception, but they showed a definite leaning towards the plastic arts or what used to be called… (read the full article)
