ventura – FTN-blog

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Since my latest blog on Julia Ventura i took a personal interest in her works and acquired some more nice publications for my personal library. Among them there is the Museu Serralves publication which was published in cooperation with the Kroller Muller Museum. It is a true Retrospective p book which covers works from 1982 until 2003. I have put it on my shelf until i recently discovered another copy on my local bookmarket. I bought this too and concluded once again that Ventura her art is very personal indeed and of the highest quality. From now on i will be on the look out for any of her works that will appear at auction. From this moment i will offer this second copy at www.ftn-books.com. I truly can recommend this one.

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Portuguese born, but working in both Lisbon and Amsterdam her works reflect her surroundings. There was a time in the mid Eighties that her work was widely available in the Netherlands because exhibitions were held at many places in the Netherlands including some renowned museums. But starting in the late Nineties her works were becoming more scarce and less available in the Netherlands. Her focus was no longer on the Netherlands and Portugal alone, but her works were presented in Switzerland, China and Spain too. Later i learned that most of her work is now being sold and available in Portugal itself . Julia Ventura is represented by some well known Portuguese galleries.

In her work, Júlia Ventura explores which role the photo can play in the representation of the self. Her initial work features black and white photos of herself in emotion-filled poses. In later work, in ingenious photos of her fingerprint which she adapts using all kinds of methods and techniques, she focuses on the suggestion of authenticity that emanates from the image.

www.ftn-books.com has one of the first Ventura publications available