Estimate

14.500 - 16.000

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Acrylic paint on plywood

124,5x111x12 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

Pedro Calapez is among those who revived painting in the Portuguese
artistic milieu. For him, painting is an expanded hybrid practice
compatible with the usage of the third dimension, objects and new
technologies.
The work of Calapez is made in series. This painting belongs to the
series Horizontes [Horizons]: Horizonte Transverso [Transverse Horizon],
Horizonte Invertido [Inverted Horizon], Horizonte Longe [Far Horizon],
Horizonte Rio [River Horizon], Horizonte Mar [Sea Horizon], etc. This body
of work synthesizes the main features and concerns of the artist’s work:
the importance of the fragment, the constant juxtaposition of layers of
paint, the relationship between abstraction and figuration, the mobility
of the observer who discovers an image when in movement. While some
of Calapez’ works convey these concerns in literal form — groups of
object-paintings with different thicknesses in which the fragmentation
and the work of the observer are immediately clear —, Horizonte baixo
[Low Horizon], 2012 does so in a subtle way, by disorientating our
perception of the figure and the background, of the top and the lower
part, the distance in relation to the represented motif that is in-between
pure abstraction and a possible syntheses of a landscape.
Some of Calapez’ latest exhibitions include ‘Retido na retina’, Casa
Museu Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon (2014); ‘There is Only Drawing’,
Fundación Luis Seone, A Coruña, Spain (2013); ‘Fragmento’, Colégio das
Artes, Coimbra, Portugal (2012); and ‘Dark Skies’, Casa das Histórias
Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal (2012).