Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956, where he lives and works. With consolidated international recognition, his work has become crucial to the understanding of sculpture since the mid-1980s. His complex body of work, marked by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetic discourse, spans a wide range of media: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installations made from found materials and manufactured objects. Using simple materials and subjecting them to constructive processes, Pedro Cabrita Reis recycles almost anonymous traces of primordial gestures and actions repeated in everyday life. Centered on questions of space and memory, his works acquire a suggestive associative power that, going beyond the visual, reaches a metaphorical dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The complex theoretical and formal diversity of Pedro Cabrita Reis\u2019s work stems from an anthropological reflection that stands in opposition to the reductionism of sociological discourse. In fact, it is upon silences and inquiries that his work is grounded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His work has been exhibited in shows organized by various museums and art centers, including: \u201cSometimes one can see the clouds passing by\u201d, Kunsthalle Bern<\/em>, 2004; \u201cStillness\u201d, Camden Arts Centre<\/em>, London, 2004; \u201cTrue Gardens #3 (Dijon)\u201d, FRAC Bourgogne<\/em>, Dijon, 2004; \u201cPedro Cabrita Reis\u201d, M ACRO<\/em>, Museo d\u2019Arte Contemporanea<\/em>, Roma, 2006; \u201cLa ciudad de adentro\u201d, OPA,<\/em> Guadalajara, 2007; \u201cTrue Gardens #6\u201d, Kunsthaus Graz<\/em>, Graz, 2008; \u201cPedro Cabrita Reis\u201d, Fondazione Merz<\/em>, Torino, 2008; \u201cLa L\u00ednea del Volc\u00e1n\u201d, Museo Tamayo<\/em>, Mexico City, 2009; \u201cDeposi\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d, Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>, 2010, \u201cOne after another, a few silent steps\u201d, Hamburger Kunsthalle<\/em>, Hamburg, 2009 \u2013 Carr\u00e9 D\u2019Art,<\/em> N\u00eemes, 2010 \u2013 Museum for Contemporary Art<\/em>, Leuven, 2011 \u2013 Museu Colec\u00e7\u00e3o Berardo<\/em>, Lisbon, 2011; \u201cStates of Flux \u2013 Pedro Cabrita Reis\u201d, Tate Modern<\/em>, London, 2011-2013; \u201cA Remote Whisper\u201d, 55a<\/sup> Biennale de Venezia, <\/em>2013; \u201cLifted Gaze\u201d, De Vleeshal<\/em>, Middelburg, 2014; \u201cAlguns nomes\u201d, Galeria Mul.ti.plo<\/em>, Rio de Janeiro, 2014; \u201cFourteen paintings, the preacher and a broken line\u201d, The Power Plant<\/em>, Toronto, 2014; \u201cThe London angles\u201d, Sprovieri Gallery<\/em>, London, 2014; \u201cThe Field\u201d, Peter Freeman Inc.<\/em>, New York, 2014; \u201cHerbarium (Madrid)\u201d, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru<\/em>, Madrid, 2015; \u201cLes lieux fragment\u00e9s\u201d, Hotel des Arts<\/em>, Toulon, 2015; \u201cA few drawings, a fa\u00e7ade inside and a possible staircase\u201d, The Arts Club<\/em>, Chicago 2015; \u201cPedro Cabrita Reis\u201d, Kewenig Galerie<\/em>, Berlin 2015; \u201cPedro Cabrita Reis\u201d, Konkrete Mehr Raum!<\/em>, Osnabr\u00fcck 2015; \u201cLa casa di Roma \u2013 L\u2019Albero della Cuccagna\u201d, MAXXI \u2013 Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome 2015; \u201cA casa de Coimbra \u2013 anozero\u201915 \u2013 um lance de dados, Bienal de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea de Coimbra\u201d, Sala da Cidade, Refeit\u00f3rio do Convento de Santa Cruz, Coimbra 2015; \u201cTodo o Patrim\u00f3nio \u00e9 Poesia\u201d, F\u00f3rum Eug\u00e9nio de Almeida, \u00c9vora 2016; \u201cFallen and Standing\u201d, Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca 2016; \u201cShow me your wound \u2013 TEFAF Maastricht\u201d, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) 2016; \u201cArt Unlimited \/ Basel 2016\u201d, Halls Messe Basel, Hall 2.1, Basel 2016; \u201cDA COLE\u00c7\u00c3O EM LISBOA \u2013 O Olhar do Artista: Obras da Cole\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves\u201d, Torre\u00e3o Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisboa 2017; \u201cDas pequenas coisas\u201d, Atelier-Museu J\u00falio Pomar, Lisboa 2017; \u201cParcours\u201d, Art Basel, Basel\u2019s M\u00fcnsterplatz, Basel 2017; \u201cCol-Lecci\u00f3 per Amor a L\u2019Art. Ornament = Delicte?\u201d, Bombas Gens Centre d\u2019Art, Valencia 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Santo Tirso has, for several years now, housed a significant public sculpture by Pedro Cabrita Reis, created as part of the 6th International Sculpture Symposium of Santo Tirso in 2001, at the invitation of Alberto Carneiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This emblematic sculpture refers to a theme that has been consistently present throughout his extensive body of work \u2014 the \u201chouse\u201d \u2014 and to how the understanding of this concept can lead us to a deeper insight into the artist\u2019s thinking and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, in the vast majority of the works\u2014almost all previously unseen\u2014that Cabrita Reis presents in this exhibition, there runs, in many forms, a complex web of ideas and shapes that invite the viewer to a process of discovery, or even a reading shaped by constant intersections and contaminations of materials and objects that are instantly recognizable to anyone. Having been discarded by their former owners due to an apparent loss of immediate usefulness, these objects are carefully, obsessively, and deliberately gathered by the artist in his studio. Guided by time and intention, he grants them a new life\u2014now imbued with historical, philosophical, political, and also poetic meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedro Cabrita Reis also conceived a large-scale piece for the long corridor of the Abade Pedrosa Municipal Museum, in which he proposes a very particular reading\/discovery\/experience of the studio where he has worked since 2006, in Lisbon, near the Tagus River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition will be open to the public from July 3rd, and a catalogue featuring texts by \u00c1lvaro Moreira and Miguel von Haffe Per\u00e9z will be published at the end of the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opening: July 03, 2018 at 7:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8563,"template":"","categoria-do-programa":[117],"class_list":["post-5750","exposicoes","type-exposicoes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-do-programa-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposicoes"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8642,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/5750\/revisions\/8642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-do-programa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-do-programa?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}