Julião Sarmento e Lawrence Weiner

Julião Sarmento (Lisbon, 1948-2021) studied Painting and Architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa. He was an interdisciplinary artist, and throughout his career, he worked across a wide range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, video, performance, sound, and installation. He also developed several significant site-specific projects. Over the last five decades, he held numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the 46th Venice Biennale (1997). He participated in Documenta 7 (1982) and Documenta 8 (1987), the Venice Biennale (1980 and 2001), and the São Paulo Biennale (2002). His work is represented in many public and private collections across Europe, North and South America, and Japan.

Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942–2021) was an American conceptual artist whose work was based on language as an artistic form. He participated in major international exhibitions, including multiple editions of Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale (1972, 1984, 2005, 2013), and the Whitney Biennial (1972, 2000, 2006, 2014). He held influential retrospectives such as As Far As The Eye Can See (2007–2009), presented at the Whitney Museum and MoCA Los Angeles. His works are part of collections such as MoMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, and Dia:Beacon, EDP Foundation and other national collections. In 1968, he published Statements, a fundamental work of Conceptual Art, where he argued that art could exist independently of its material execution. His work expanded into public space interventions and collaborations with music and cinema.