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Jimmie Durham
25 June 1995 - 05 May 1995

Módulo - Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisboa

"Maria Thereza gave me a paperback of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, by José Saramago. I had not heard of him before, but the story is set in Lisboa, for which I have a special love. It is such a good book that I wrote to many friends advising them to read it. (...)

Saramago’s book is infinitely quotable. I wrote to him asking if I could use passages in my artwork. He agreed and I spent the next four weeks walking around Lisboa with the ghost of Ricardo Reis. (...)

Each sculpture was given a quotation from The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. Reis was one of the pseudonyms of Fernando Pessoa. A fictional author but by Saramago’s logic Reis himself does not know that." [full text here]

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