Born in Portugal in 1930, Lourdes Castro left her authoritarian country in the 1950s to live in Paris. There she met the artists Christo and Jan Voss and became fascinated by the ideas of 'Nouveau Réalisme', a new realism that combined life and art. Her first works were collages of everyday objects installed in silver-painted boxes.
In the early 1960s she made her first silhouette works, including the 1968 Wuppertal work. The object consists of three Plexiglas panes mounted on top of each other at a small distance. The rear pane is transparent, the middle pane is white, and on the front pane is a life-size image of a standing girl looking to the right in a lighter tone next to a darker tone.
For Castro, the outlines of people and objects, which she created with coloured areas or cut into acrylic panels, show the minimum with which an encounter can be remembered. Here the artist revolved around ideas of presence and absence, spatially and mentally, in a way that was as minimalist as it was poetic. In 1983 the artist returned to her native Portugal.
- Material & Technik
- Plexiglas, bemalt
- Museum
- Von der Heydt Museum
- Datierung
- 1968
- Inventarnummer
- P 0277