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Estou-me nas Tintas

The performer appears with two buckets of red and green paint. He sits on a chair and ties himself to it with adhesive tape. He puts his feet on the buckets of paint and puts a sign on his neck in which the sentence "Estou-me nas tintas" can be read. He then gets up, walks around the exhibition stuck to the chair, and with buckets in hand, heads towards one of his own paintings. After snapping polaroids of his work, he sits in front of it and takes an ink-filled water pistol out of his pocket and fires at the work until it is ruined.

1983, Gerardo Burmester, Estou-me nas Tintas, Inauguração da Primeira Exposição Nacional de Desenho no Palácio de Cristal, Porto.

Gerardo Burmester

Gerardo Burmester was born in Porto, in 1953, the city where he currently lives and works. He attended the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto between 1973-74, and left before completing his academic training. Between 1975 and 1978, he lived in Paris. He was one of the members of Grupo Puzzle, for which he performed several times. He founded and directed Espaço Lusitano, with Albuquerque Mendes, in Porto. In 1986 and 1995, he was awarded at the V and VIII Biennials of Cerveira. Gerardo Burmester had a flurry of prolific performance activity between 1976 and 1987 with around 30 interventions, and especially of note were those carried out with the Puzzle group between 1977 and 1979; “Alternative2 and 3, Almada –1982/83; “Performance Festival”, Espaço Lusitano, Porto –1982; “Culture et Révolution: Portugal 10 ans après”, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris –1984; “Art is action”, Kassel –1985; “Alternative 5 –The right angle boils at 90o”, Porto International Performance Festival – Galeria Roma e Pavia/Discoteca Indústria, Porto –1987.