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Pedro Cabrita Reis
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Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in 1956 in Lisbon (where he lives and works) and is one of today's most famous portuguese artists. His work has been shown in well established international shows, such as the 9th Kassel Documenta and the 24th São Paulo Bienale. In 2003, he represented Portugal at the Venice Bienale. The complex work of Cabrita includes a multiplicity of means, from drawings using graffiti and pastel, to large scale painting and arquitectural dimensioned installations. The flux between the used materials nevertheless maintains each's own character.
from an anthropological reflection, which is contrary to the reductionism of sociological discourse. In fact, it is on silences and indagations that the work of Cabrita is based and built on.
Pedro Cabrita Reis participated in important international exhibitions, such as Documenta IX and XIV in Kassel in 1992 and 2017, the 21th and 24th São Paulo Biennales, respectively in 1994 and 1998, in the Aperto of the Venice Biennale in 1997. In 2003, he represented Portugal in the Venice Biennale, in 2013 he presented “A Remote Whisper”, 55th Biennale de Venezia and participated in the Xème Biennale de Lyon, “The Spectacle of the Everyday”, Lyon, 2009. In 2022 Cabrita presented in the Tuileries “Les Trois Grâces” commissioned by the Louvre Museum, and on the occasion of the 59th Venice Biennale Cabrita Reis presents “Field” at Chiesa di San Fantin.
Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in 1956 in Lisbon (where he lives and works) and is one of today's most famous portuguese artists. His work has been shown in well established international shows, such as the 9th Kassel Documenta and the 24th São Paulo Bienale. In 2003, he represented Portugal at the Venice Bienale. The complex work of Cabrita includes a multiplicity of means, from drawings using graffiti and pastel, to large scale painting and arquitectural dimensioned installations. The flux between the used materials nevertheless maintains each's own character.
Sculptures become images; when attached to windows, monochromatic articulated paintings lead to arquitectural elements or develop sculptural qualities. Photographs which appear in the instalations open never-ending spaces for memory and reflection. Nature appears in his work in an extremely filtred way, as a road to consciousness. The loss of nature as a reference idea is the engine of Cabrita Reis' work. The artist sees architecture as replacing it and understands it as a mental discipline or a “reality exercise”through which we measure ourselves and the world. This requires a very high precision.
Artist Bio
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Cabrita was born in 1956 in Lisbon, the city where he currently lives and works. His work has steadily received international acknowledgement, thus becoming crucial and decisive for the understanding of sculpture from the mid-1980’s onwards. His complex work can be characterized by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetical discourse embracing a great variety of means: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installations composed of industrial and found materials and manufactured objects. By using simple materials that are submitted to constructive processes, Cabrita recycles almost anonymous reminiscences of primordial gestures and actions repeated in everyday life.
The complex theoretical and formal diversity of the work of Cabrita proceeds
Artist Bio
Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in 1956 in Lisbon (where he lives and works) and is one of today's most famous portuguese artists. His work has been shown in well established international shows, such as the 9th Kassel Documenta and the 24th São Paulo Bienale. In 2003, he represented Portugal at the Venice Bienale. The complex work of Cabrita includes a multiplicity of means, from drawings using graffiti and pastel, to large scale painting and arquitectural dimensioned installations. The flux between the used materials nevertheless maintains each's own character.
Sculptures become images; when attached to windows, monochromatic articulated paintings lead to arquitectural elements or develop sculptural qualities. Photographs which appear in the instalations open never-ending spaces for memory and reflection. Nature appears in his work in an extremely filtred way, as a road to consciousness. The loss of nature as a reference idea is the engine of Cabrita Reis' work. The artist sees architecture as replacing it and understands it as a mental discipline or a “reality exercise”through which we measure ourselves and the world. This requires a very high precision.
Artist Bio
Curriculum vitae
The perfect moment is the moment of a successful balance between form and content, past and present, self and the world, which art, as I believe, continually envisages.
Cabrita interview with Michael Stoeber for Scultpure.org