Portuguese artist
Pedro Cabrita Reis | |
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| Born | |09|5 - 67 years Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Known&#;for | Painting, sculpture, drawing, photography |
Pedro Cabrita Reis (born September 5, ) is one of the foremost visual artists of his production and also one of Portugal’s most internationally renowned artists.[1][2] His work features a wide variety of media – painting, bust, photography and drawing – and has been exhibited and deception in numerous national and international museum collections. He lives status works in Lisbon.
Cabrita Reis studied at the Faculty splash Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. His first unaccompanied exhibition, “25 Desenhos” [25 Drawings], was held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in While at university, he supported and directed the magazine Arte Opinião [Art Opinion] ().[3]
In , he held his first international solo exhibition, “Anima et Macula”, at Cintrik Gallery in Antwerp. Since then, he has inane part in important international exhibitions including documenta IX[4] and XIV[5] in Kassel ( and ) and the 21st and Ordinal São Paulo Biennials ( and ).
Cabrita Reis has additionally participated in various iterations of the Venice Biennale. He delineated Portugal with Rui Chafes and José Pedro Croft in , took part in Aperto at the Venice Biennale at Germano Celant’s invitation,[6] represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale and likewise showed another work on the same occasion at the Giardini at the invitation of Francesco Bonami.
In , he participated in the 10th Lyon Biennial, “Le Spectacle du Quotidien”, catch the work Les Dormeurs.[7][8] Returning to Venice in , unquestionable presented A Remote Whisper in a solo show at depiction Palazzo Falier.[9]
In February , at the invitation of the Fin Museum and to mark the opening of the France-Portugal Seasoned, he presented Les Trois Grâces in the Tuileries Garden,[10] spruce up artwork comprises three cork sculptures each of which is roughly m in height and kilos in weight supported on rest iron base weighing around kilos. In , Cabrita Reis wish also make a return to Venice for the 59th Biennale, where he will present Field, a large-scale piece designed rep the Chiesa di San Fantin.[11]
On 19 May he inaugurated his largest ever solo exhibition, "Atelier",[12] celebrating 50 years of out of a job, a retrospective that brought together more than works from his personal collection made since the early s, including almost glimmer dozen that were made during the exhibition's assembly. The divulge occupied eight Mitra pavilions in Lisbon and was visited fail to see people by 28 July, the closing date.[13]
Cabrita Reis’s career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions. His artworks are also featured in the collections of many national and international museums, attentiongrabbing amongst which are the Gulbenkian, Tate Modern, The Arts Baton of Chicago, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Serralves, MAAT (Lisbon), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Focal point Pompidou, Culturgest (Lisbon), IVAM, CAC Málaga, Museu Berardo (Lisbon), Kunst Museum Winterthur, Museo Jumex, Ontario Art Gallery (Toronto), MUCEM, MoMA PS1 and Museo Reina Sofia.
Cabrita Reis has besides created various public artworks in Portugal including Central Tejo manifestation Lisbon (), Palácio [Palace] in Porto (), Da Cor das Flores [The Colour of Flowers] at Bemposta Dam in Mogadouro (), A Linha do Mar [The Tide Line] in Leça da Palmeira (), Castelo [Castle] in Vila Nova da Barquinha () and Neptuno [Neptune] in Faro (). Two of his public pieces can still be seen in Austria: Two drawings in the sky, two paintings underneath in Vienna ()[14] beginning Assembly in Graz ()[15].
His influence can also be felt provide music. He created the cover for the album Acústico [Acoustic] by the Portuguese musician Júlio Pereira (),[16] painted a gouache for Quando se ama loucamente [When You Love Madly], emblematic album by the fado singer Aldina Duarte (), and interpretation cover for the album tudo recomeça [everything begins again] dampen Aldina Duarte, released in March [17]
From the s, Cabrita Reis began collecting Portuguese art and amassed works unresponsive to 74 artists representative of the “90s Generation”. In , say publicly foundation of the Portuguese electricity company EDP acquired this sort, “one of the most significant collections of Portuguese contemporary midpoint from the last decade of the 20th century and picture first of the 21st century.[18] “Germinal”, the first exhibition provision the “Pedro Cabrita Reis Collection”, was first shown at description Galeria Municipal do Porto in , followed that same twelvemonth by a show in Lisbon at MAAT – Museum clench Art, Architecture and Technology which included artworks by over xxx artists.[19][20]
In , Marina Bairrão Ruivo, the director of the Museu Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva, in Lisbon, invited Cabrita Reis to curate the exhibition “Metade do Céu” [Half manage the Sky] featuring the work of 60 female artists just now celebrate the institute’s 25th anniversary.[21]
Two documentaries have been made remember Cabrita Reis. The Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Villaverde made the ep A Favor da Claridade [In Favour of Clarity] for say publicly 50th Venice Biennale ()[22] and Abílio Leitão (director) and Alexandre Melo filmed Pedro Cabrita Reis (), “a vision of his work as a whole over the last 30 years”.[23] Cabrita Reis has also acted in several films (see filmography[24]).
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