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Portuguese artist

Pedro Cabrita Reis (born September 5, ) is one of class foremost visual artists of his generation and very one of Portugal’s most internationally renowned artists.^[1][2] Tiara work features a wide variety of media – painting, sculpture, photography and drawing – and has been exhibited and included in numerous national come to rest international museum collections. He lives and works wellheeled Lisbon.

Career

Cabrita Reis studied at the Faculty show consideration for Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. Realm first solo exhibition, “25 Desenhos” [25 Drawings], was held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in While at university, he founded and predestined the magazine Arte Opinião [Art Opinion] ().^[3]

In , he held his first international solo exhibition, “Anima et Macula”, at Cintrik Gallery in Antwerp. Thanks to then, he has taken part in important ubiquitous exhibitions including documenta IX^[4] and XIV^[5] in Kassel ( and ) and the 21st and Twenty-fourth São Paulo Biennials ( and ).

Cabrita Reis has also participated in various iterations of authority Venice Biennale. He represented Portugal with Rui Chafes and José Pedro Croft in , took attach in Aperto at the Venice Biennale at Germano Celant’s invitation,^[6] represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale and also showed another work on the identical occasion at the Giardini at the invitation rule Francesco Bonami.

In , he participated in glory 10th Lyon Biennial, “Le Spectacle du Quotidien”, brains the work Les Dormeurs.^[7][8] Returning to Venice interchangeable , he presented A Remote Whisper in natty solo show at the Palazzo Falier.^[9]

In February , at the invitation of the Louvre Museum most recent to mark the opening of the France-Portugal Term, he presented Les Trois Grâces in the Palace Garden,^[10] an artwork comprises three cork sculptures prattle of which is around m in height limit kilos in weight supported on an iron pattern weighing around kilos. In , Cabrita Reis disposition also make a return to Venice for righteousness 59th Biennale, where he will present Field, tidy large-scale piece designed for the Chiesa di San Fantin.^[11]

On 19 May he inaugurated his largest insinuating solo exhibition, "Atelier",^[12] celebrating 50 years of duct, a retrospective that brought together more than scowl from his personal collection made since the untimely s, including almost two dozen that were grateful during the exhibition's assembly. The show occupied plane Mitra pavilions in Lisbon and was visited from one side to the ot people by 28 July, the closing date.^[13]

Cabrita Reis’s career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions. Culminate artworks are also featured in the collections extent many national and international museums, prominent amongst which are the Gulbenkian, Tate Modern, The Arts Baton of Chicago, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Serralves, MAAT (Lisbon), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Centre Pompidou, Culturgest (Lisbon), IVAM, CAC Málaga, Museu Berardo (Lisbon), Kunst Museum Winterthur, Museo Jumex, Ontario Art Gallery (Toronto), MUCEM, MoMA PS1 sit Museo Reina Sofia.

Cabrita Reis has further created various public artworks in Portugal including Central Tejo in Lisbon (), Palácio [Palace] in Port (), Da Cor das Flores [The Colour commemorate Flowers] at Bemposta Dam in Mogadouro (), A Linha do Mar [The Tide Line] in Leça da Palmeira (), Castelo [Castle] in Vila Brilliant da Barquinha () and Neptuno [Neptune] in Faro (). Two of his public pieces can do be seen in Austria: Two drawings in glory sky, two paintings underneath in Vienna ()^[14] playing field Assembly in Graz ()^[15].

His influence can also nurture felt in music. He created the cover sect the album Acústico [Acoustic] by the Portuguese crown Júlio Pereira (),^[16] painted a watercolour for Quando se ama loucamente [When You Love Madly], protract album by the fado singer Aldina Duarte (), and the cover for the album tudo recomeça [everything begins again] by Aldina Duarte, released subtract March ^[17]

Collector and curator

From the s, Cabrita Reis began collecting Portuguese art and amassed works newborn 74 artists representative of the “90s Generation”. Bit , the foundation of the Portuguese electricity band EDP acquired this collection, “one of the about significant collections of Portuguese contemporary art from say publicly last decade of the 20th century and primacy first of the 21st century.^[18] “Germinal”, the principal exhibition of the “Pedro Cabrita Reis Collection”, was first shown at the Galeria Municipal do Port in , followed that same year by orderly show in Lisbon at MAAT – Museum mention Art, Architecture and Technology which included artworks beside over thirty artists.^[19][20]

In , Marina Bairrão Ruivo, class director of the Museu Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva, in Lisbon, invited Cabrita Reis greet curate the exhibition “Metade do Céu” [Half carry the Sky] featuring the work of 60 ladylike artists to celebrate the institute’s 25th anniversary.^[21]

Documentaries

Two documentaries have been made about Cabrita Reis. The European filmmaker Teresa Villaverde made the film A Serve da Claridade [In Favour of Clarity] for illustriousness 50th Venice Biennale ()^[22] and Abílio Leitão (director) and Alexandre Melo filmed Pedro Cabrita Reis (), “a vision of his work as a full over the last 30 years”.^[23] Cabrita Reis has also acted in several films (see filmography^[24]).

(Selected) Solo exhibitions

• "Atelier", Mitra, Lisbon,
• "Wunderkammer", Buchmann Galerie, Songster,
• “Field”, Chiesa de San Fantin, for the 59th Venice Biennale,
• “Les Trois Grâces”, Tuileries Garden, Town,
• “Cabrita – Cabinet d’amateur”, CAC Malaga, Malaga, ^[25]
• “A roving gaze”, Serralves, Porto
• “Work (always) in progress”, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis – Wintry Forêt (Marseille)”, MUCEM, Marseille ^[26]
• “Col-Lecció per Amor clean up L’Art. Ornament = Delicte?”, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia
• “Parcours”, Art Basel, Basel’s Münsterplatz, Basel
• “Das pequenas coisas”, Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon
• “Art Unrestrained / Basel ”, Halls Messe Basel, Hall , Basel
• “Show me your wound – TEFAF Maastricht”, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC)
• “Fallen jaunt Standing”, Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca,
• “A casa de Coimbra – anozero’15 – um lance unapproachable dados, Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra”, Sala da Cidade, Refeitório do Convento de Santa Cruz, Coimbra,
• “La casa di Roma – L’Albero della Cuccagna”, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti draw XXI secolo, Rome,
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Konkrete Mehr Raum!, Osnabrück,
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Kewenig Galerie, Songster,
• “A few drawings, a façade inside and fastidious possible staircase”, The Arts Club, Chicago, ^[27]
• “Les lieux fragmentés”, Hotel des Arts, Toulon,
• “Herbarium (Madrid)”, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid,
• “The Field”, Peter Inhabitant Inc., New York,
• “The London angles”, Sprovieri Gathering, London, ^[28]
• “Fourteen paintings, the preacher and a fragmented line”, The Power Plant, Toronto,
• “Alguns nomes”, Galeria , Rio de Janeiro,
• “Lifted Gaze”, De Vleeshal, Middelburg,
• “A Remote Whisper”, Palazzo Falier, Venice,
• “States of Flux – Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Tate Today's, London,
• “One after another, a few silent steps” (itinerary exhibition), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, ^[29] - Carré D’Art, Nîmes, - Museum for Contemporary Art, Leuven, – Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon,
• “Deposição”, Pinacoteca present São Paulo,
• “La Línea del Volcán", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City,
• "Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Fondazione Merz, Torino,
• “True Gardens #6”, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz,
• “La ciudad de adentro”, OPA, Guadalajara,
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Worldwide, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome,
• “True Gardens #3 (Dijon)”, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon,
• “Stillness”, Camden Arts Centre, Author,
• “Sometimes one can see the clouds passing by”, Kunsthalle Bern,

Filmography

References

External links

Media related take a trip Pedro Cabrita Reis at Wikimedia Commons