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Erasing the Studio #7, 2012

Pedro Cabrita Reis (b. 1956)


Estimate

10.000 - 15.000


Session

4 February 2016



Description

Ecoline on canvas

109x101 cm


Category

Modern and Contemporary Art


Additional Information

With a career spanning more than thirty years and a continuouslygrowing
number of exhibitions abroad, Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of
the Portuguese artists with the largest international scope. Housing,
construction and territory are since the 1990s his favourite themes
and motives, which he explores in both domestic everyday elements
(such as chairs, tables, doors and windows) and massive sculptures
and installations made of industrial materials (including bricks,
cement, wooden panels, steel beams and neon lamps). In his drawings
and paintings, the artist’s body is a common motif, either in a wide
collection of self-portraits or, as is the case with this work, through the
exploration of the artist’s gesture, the premeditated expressiveness and
the mechanic application of paint.
His most recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Pedro Cabrita Reis: Konkrete
Mehr Raum’, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Osnabruck (2015); ‘Les Lieux
fragmentés’, Hotel des Arts, Toulon (2015); ‘Pedro Cabrita Reis: Fourteen
Paintings, the Preacher and a Broken Line’, The Power Plant, Toronto
(2014); ‘A Remote Whisper’, Palazzo Falier, Venice (2013); and ‘One after
Another, A Few Silent Steps’, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon and M
Museum, Leuven (2011). Cabrita Reis represented Portugal at the 50th
Venice Biennale (2003).



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