Pedro cabrita reis drawings

Portuguese artist

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

Career

Cabrita Reis studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. His first solo exhibition, “25 Desenhos” [25 Drawings], was held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in While at university, he founded 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 taken part in important international exhibitions including documenta IX^[4] and XIV^[5] in Kassel ( and ) and the 21st and 24th São Paulo Biennials ( and ).

Cabrita Reis has also participated in various iterations of the Venice Biennale. He represented 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 also 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”, with the work Les Dormeurs.^[7][8] Returning to Venice in , he presented A Remote Whisper in a solo show at the Palazzo Falier.^[9]

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

On 19 May he inaugurated his largest ever solo exhibition, "Atelier",^[12] celebrating 50 years of work, a retrospective that brought together more than works from his personal collection made since the early s, including almost two dozen that were made during the exhibition's assembly. The show occupied eight Mitra pavilions in Lisbon and was visited by 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, prominent amongst which are the Gulbenkian, Tate Modern, The Arts Club 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 and Museo Reina Sofia.

Cabrita Reis has also created various public artworks in Portugal including Central Tejo in 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] and Assembly in Graz ()^[15].

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

Collector and curator

From the s, Cabrita Reis began collecting Portuguese art and amassed works by 74 artists representative of the “90s Generation”. In , the foundation of the Portuguese electricity company EDP acquired this collection, “one of the most significant collections of Portuguese contemporary art from the last decade of the 20th century and the first of the 21st century.^[18] “Germinal”, the first exhibition of the “Pedro Cabrita Reis Collection”, was first shown at the Galeria Municipal do Porto in , followed that same year by a show in Lisbon at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology which included artworks by over thirty 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 of the Sky] featuring the work of 60 female artists to celebrate the institute’s 25th anniversary.^[21]

Documentaries

Two documentaries have been made about Cabrita Reis. The Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Villaverde made the film A Favor da Claridade [In Favour of Clarity] for the 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]).

(Selected) Solo exhibitions

• "Atelier", Mitra, Lisbon,
• "Wunderkammer", Buchmann Galerie, Berlin,
• “Field”, Chiesa de San Fantin, for the 59th Venice Biennale,
• “Les Trois Grâces”, Tuileries Garden, Paris,
• “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 – La Forêt (Marseille)”, MUCEM, Marseille ^[26]
• “Col-Lecció per Amor a 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 Unlimited / Basel ”, Halls Messe Basel, Hall , Basel
• “Show me your wound – TEFAF Maastricht”, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC)
• “Fallen and Standing”, Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca,
• “A casa de Coimbra – anozero’15 – um lance de 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 del XXI secolo, Rome,
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Konkrete Mehr Raum!, Osnabrück,
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin,
• “A few drawings, a façade inside and a possible staircase”, The Arts Club, Chicago, ^[27]
• “Les lieux fragmentés”, Hotel des Arts, Toulon,
• “Herbarium (Madrid)”, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid,
• “The Field”, Peter Freeman Inc., New York,
• “The London angles”, Sprovieri Gallery, London, ^[28]
• “Fourteen paintings, the preacher and a broken 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 Modern, 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 de São Paulo,
• “La Línea del Volcán", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City,
• "Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Fondazione Merz, Turin,
• “True Gardens #6”, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz,
• “La ciudad de adentro”, OPA, Guadalajara,
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome,
• “True Gardens #3 (Dijon)”, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon,
• “Stillness”, Camden Arts Centre, London,
• “Sometimes one can see the clouds passing by”, Kunsthalle Bern,

Filmography

References

External links

Media related to Pedro Cabrita Reis at Wikimedia Commons