Jose Carlos Sarmento

House of the Arts, College of Medecine of the Oporto, 2006

I was born in Ovar, small city close to the Oporto, Portugal. Professionally I am Paediatrician, but along time ago that the Plastic’s Arts are one of my passions. I like to paint without thinking. I am provoked by exterior sensations and is over the canvas that I materialize all that I call PROVOCATIONS:
Infantile provocations
Demiurgeous provocations
Musical provocations

The sensorial pleasure is manifested with more intensity and pureness in infancy. The Child is the only owner of the art, the True Pure Art.
The cerebral impulses that take me to paint are primary and or involuntary, only moved for sensations abstracts, Musical and Faith or Anti-Faith.

You can imagine?

If I was a colour, I was the Black. But with all its nuances...
If I were Element of the Nature I would be the Water. But in all its physical forms...
If I had a house, it I would be without ceiling, walls, ground, place...
If I did not have Time I would live outside of everything. I would wake up with the Sun and I would fall asleep with Moon... and
I would paint, paint, and paint the images that live in my dreams, to the search of nothing, nothing more… nothing...

You can imagine? Please…

College of Medicine of the Porto, 1970
College of Medicine of the Porto, 1971
National Hall of the New Artists, Foundation Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, 1972
Theater of Paredes, in the ambit of IV the National Meeting of Gastrenterologia, Paredes, 1984
Collegiums of Physicians, Porto, 1986
Termas de S. Vicente, in the ambit of VI the Annual Meeting of Gastrenterologia. 1986
House of the Culture, Paredes, 2000
Unesco Gallery , Porto, 2005
House of the Arts, College of Medecine of the Oporto, 2005