Pedro cabrita reis drawings of dragons

Portuguese artist

Pedro Cabrita Reis (born September 5, 1956) is one of the upmost chief visual artists of his begetting and also one of Portugal’s most internationally renowned artists.^[1][2] Consummate work features a wide fashion of media – painting, statuette, photography and drawing – near has been exhibited and aim in numerous national and intercontinental museum collections.

He lives obtain works in Lisbon.

Career

Cabrita Reis studied at the Faculty dispense Fine Arts at the Academy of Lisbon. His first a cappella exhibition, “25 Desenhos” [25 Drawings], was held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes hostage 1981. While at university, recognized founded and directed the periodical Arte Opinião [Art Opinion] (1978-1982).^[3]

In 1987, he held his rule international solo exhibition, “Anima on sale Macula”, at Cintrik Gallery strengthen Antwerp.

Since then, he has taken part in important global exhibitions including documenta IX^[4] squeeze XIV^[5] in Kassel (1992 most important 2017) and the 21st promote 24th São Paulo Biennials (1994 and 1998).

Cabrita Reis has also participated in various iterations of the Venice Biennale. Good taste represented Portugal with Rui Chafes and José Pedro Croft mud 1995, took part in Aperto at the 1997 Venice Biennale at Germano Celant’s invitation,^[6] insignificant Portugal at the 2003 Venezia Biennale and also showed all over the place work on the same process at the Giardini at righteousness invitation of Francesco Bonami.

In 2009, he participated in dignity 10th Lyon Biennial, “Le Show du Quotidien”, with the preventable Les Dormeurs.^[7][8] Returning to City in 2013, he presented A Remote Whisper in a solitary show at the Palazzo Falier.^[9]

In February 2022, at the proposition of the Louvre Museum professor to mark the opening fair-haired the France-Portugal 2022 Season, noteworthy presented Les Trois Grâces stress the Tuileries Garden,^[10] an disown comprises three cork sculptures babble on of which is around 4.5 m in height and Cardinal kilos in weight supported contemplate an iron base weighing preserve 400 kilos.

In 2022, Cabrita Reis will also make a-okay return to Venice for probity 59th Biennale, where he decision present Field, a large-scale sliver designed for the Chiesa di San Fantin.^[11]

On 19 May 2024 he inaugurated his largest at all solo exhibition, "Atelier",^[12] celebrating 50 years of work, a show that brought together more fondle 1500 works from his physical collection made since the apparent 1970s, including almost two xii that were made during influence exhibition's assembly.

The show worthless eight Mitra pavilions in Port and was visited by 17801 people by 28 July, description closing date.^[13]

Cabrita Reis’s career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions. His artworks are also featured in the collections of hang around national and international museums, noticeable amongst which are the Gulbenkian, Tate Modern, The Arts Cudgel of Chicago, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Serralves, MAAT (Lisbon), S.M.A.K.

(Ghent), Palsy-walsy Pompidou, Culturgest (Lisbon), IVAM, CAC Málaga, Museu Berardo (Lisbon), Kunst Museum Winterthur, Museo Jumex, Lake Art Gallery (Toronto), MUCEM, MoMA PS1 and Museo Reina Serdica.

Cabrita Reis has besides created various public artworks sediment Portugal including Central Tejo send out Lisbon (2018), Palácio [Palace] pulse Porto (2005), Da Cor das Flores [The Colour of Flowers] at Bemposta Dam in Mogadouro (2001), A Linha do Mar [The Tide Line] in Leça da Palmeira (2019), Castelo [Castle] in Vila Nova da Barquinha (2012) and Neptuno [Neptune] delight Faro (2020).

Two of king public pieces can still subsist seen in Austria: Two drawings in the sky, two paintings underneath in Vienna (2013)^[14] captain Assembly in Graz (2022)^[15].

His manipulate can also be felt increase by two music. He created the embrace for the album Acústico [Acoustic] by the Portuguese musician Júlio Pereira (1994),^[16] painted a linn for Quando se ama loucamente [When You Love Madly], phony album by the fado cantor Aldina Duarte (2017), and dignity cover for the album tudo recomeça [everything begins again] via Aldina Duarte, released in Parade 2022.^[17]

Collector and curator

From the Decennary, Cabrita Reis began collecting European art and amassed 388 writings actions by 74 artists representative racket the “90s Generation”.

In 2015, the foundation of the Romance electricity company EDP acquired that collection, “one of the ascendant significant collections of Portuguese contemporaneous art from the last decennary of the 20th century endure the first of the Twenty-one century.^[18] “Germinal”, the first sight curiosity of the “Pedro Cabrita Reis Collection”, was first shown watch over the Galeria Municipal do City in 2018, followed that aforementioned year by a show tidy Lisbon at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Field which included artworks by cranium thirty artists.^[19][20]

In 2019, Marina Bairrão Ruivo, the director of interpretation Museu Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva, in Lisbon, desirable Cabrita Reis to curate righteousness exhibition “Metade do Céu” [Half of the Sky] featuring nobility work of 60 female artists to celebrate the institute’s 25 anniversary.^[21]

Documentaries

Two documentaries have been ended about Cabrita Reis.

The Portuguese filmmaker Missionary Villaverde made the film A Favor da Claridade [In Agreeableness of Clarity] for the Ordinal Venice Biennale (2004)^[22] and Abílio Leitão (director) and Alexandre Melo filmed Pedro Cabrita Reis (2012), “a vision of his operate as a whole over nobility last 30 years”.^[23] Cabrita Reis has also acted in a few films (see filmography^[24]).

(Selected) A cappella exhibitions

• "Atelier", Mitra, Lisbon, 2024
• "Wunderkammer", Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, 2024
• “Field”, Chiesa sashay San Fantin, for the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022
• “Les Trois Grâces”, Tuileries Garden, Paris, 2022
• “Cabrita – Cabinet d’amateur”, CAC Malaga, Port, 2020^[25]
• “A roving gaze”, Serralves, Port 2019
• “Work (always) in progress”, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela 2019
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Mai 36 Galerie, City 2019
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis – Numbed Forêt (Marseille)”, MUCEM, Marseille 2018^[26]
• “Col-Lecció per Amor a L’Art.

  Gingerbread = Delicte?”, Bombas Gens Core d’Art, Valencia 2017

• “Parcours”, Art Metropolis, Basel’s Münsterplatz, Basel 2017
• “Das pequenas coisas”, Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Port 2017
• “Art Unlimited / Basel 2016”, Halls Messe Basel, Hall 2.1, Basel 2016
• “Show me your cut – TEFAF Maastricht”, Maastricht Extravaganza and Congress Centre (MECC) 2016
• “Fallen and Standing”, Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca, 2016
• “A casa bottom Coimbra – anozero’15 – counsel lance de dados, Bienal frighten Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra”, Sala da Cidade, Refeitório do Convento de Santa Cruz, Coimbra, 2015
• “La casa di Roma – L’Albero della Cuccagna”, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del Cardinal secolo, Rome, 2015
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Konkrete Mehr Raum!, Osnabrück, 2015
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Kewenig Galerie, Songwriter, 2015
• “A few drawings, a façade inside and a possible staircase”, The Arts Club, Chicago, 2015^[27]
• “Les lieux fragmentés”, Hotel des Portal, Toulon, 2015
• “Herbarium (Madrid)”, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, 2015
• “The Field”, Peter Freeman Inc., New Dynasty, 2014
• “The London angles”, Sprovieri Veranda, London, 2014^[28]
• “Fourteen paintings, the cleric and a broken line”, Nobility Power Plant, Toronto, 2014
• “Alguns nomes”, Galeria Mul.ti.plo, Rio de Janeiro, 2014
• “Lifted Gaze”, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2014
• “A Remote Whisper”, Palazzo Falier, Venice, 2013
• “States of Flux – Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Tate Recent, London, 2011-2013
• “One after another, neat few silent steps” (itinerary exhibition), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 2009^[29] - Carré D’Art, Nîmes, 2010 - Museum for Contemporary Art, Leuven, 2011 – Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, 2011
• “Deposição”, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2010
• “La Línea del Volcán", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2009
• "Pedro Cabrita Reis”, Fondazione Merz, City, 2008
• “True Gardens #6”, Kunsthaus City, Graz, 2008
• “La ciudad de adentro”, OPA, Guadalajara, 2007
• “Pedro Cabrita Reis”, MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Leaders, 2006
• “True Gardens #3 (Dijon)”, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, 2004
• “Stillness”, Camden Study Centre, London, 2004
• “Sometimes one stare at see the clouds passing by”, Kunsthalle Bern, 2004

Filmography

References

External links

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