Biography
Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in 1956 in Lisbon, the city where he currently lives and works. He has participated in many international exhibitions, such as the 59th Venice Biennale, ''Field'' a large-scale sculpture within Chiesa di San Fantin, Venice, Italy; Documenta XIV (2017), A Remote Whisper, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), 10th Biennale de Lyon (2009). In 2003, he represented Portugal at the 50th Venice Biennale. Among the past main shows: Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992; the 21st and 24th São Paulo Biennales, respectively in 1994 and 1998; and the Aperto section of the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997.
Among his solo shows: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (2024); Sprovieri, London, UK (2023); La Lonja, Palma de Mallorca (2023); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (2020); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (2019); MAXXI, Rome (2016); The Arts Club, Chicago (2015); Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2011); Pinacoteca Do Estado, São Paulo (2010); Hamburger Kunsthalle (2010); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2009); Fondazione Merz, Turin (2008).
His group exhibitions include: The Three Graces, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France (2022); Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guagalajara, Mexico (2019); Bernado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2018); Centre d'Arte Contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France (2018); FRAC Provenance-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France (2017); and Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (2013).
Cabrita Reis’s work has steadily received international acknowledgement, thus becoming crucial and decisive for the understanding of sculpture from the mid-1980s onwards. His complex practice is characterised by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetical discourse embracing a great variety of means: painting, photography, drawing and sculptures composed of industrial and found materials alongside manufactured objects. Amongst Cabrita’s key elements are heavy steel bars, found windows and door frames and many of his works incorporate fluorescent strip lighting. Use of light is used frequently to divide, define and illuminate space whereas, besides the study of the window as a renaissance structure opening new perspectives on the space, Cabrita Reis puts particular emphasis on its physical construction. The concept of windows creates a direct relation between image and environment in a mechanism that employs the basic structures of the surrounding architecture. On the one hand, through the technical potentiality established in the making of the work, and on the other, carrying out a direct association with the light Focused on questions relative to space and memory, the equilibrium between light and matter is expressed in the balance between architecture and image and "creates a reality in its own right, instead of reproducing it”(Cabrita).
Works
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Pedro Cabrita ReisFlower Pot #3, 2023Oil on raw canvas180 x 180 cmView more details -
Pedro Cabrita ReisThe Window Paintings #11, 2021Pigmented acetone and acrylic on raw canvas173 x 122 x 16,5 cmView more details
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Pedro Cabrita ReisWhite Trees #3, 2021painted steel197 x 81 x 40 cmView more details
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Pedro Cabrita ReisLandscapes 2020 (series III) #4, 2020acrylic on plywood mounted on aluminium, glass61.5 x 75.5 x 11.5 cmView more details
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Pedro Cabrita ReisThe Redux Suite #4, 2018aluminium frame, crayon on plywood, found wood, Paintings 2017, #23, (Casa Queimada), 2017, cardboard, aluminum shelf, found burlap bag, glass151 x 120 x 16 cmView more details
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Pedro Cabrita ReisSuite Morandi #4, 2017oil on steel26.5 x 51.2 x 18.5 cmView more details
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Pedro Cabrita ReisLondon Angles #1, 2014chromed steel, aluminium, fluorescent light and electric cabledimensions variableView more details
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Pedro Cabrita ReisThe Aluminium Monochromes #20, 2012acrylic on aluminium34.1 x 49.1 x 12 cmView more details
Exhibitions
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Pedro Cabrita Reis
insomnia 28 Sep - 22 Dec 2023Sprovieri is delighted to present insomnia, Pedro Cabrita Reis’ fifth exhibition at the Gallery. Pedro Cabrita Reis (PCR) (Lisbon, 1956-) is the most internationalised of current Portuguese artists. His work...Read more -
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The Last Supper 11 Oct - 22 Dec 2021Sprovieri is delighted to present The Last Supper, the fourth show at the gallery by Cabrita. The Last Supper features three works by the artist that through his alchemical gaze,...Read more -
Pedro Cabrita Reis Jimmie Durham Cildo Meireles
in collaboration with Galeria Luisa Strina 2 Oct - 20 Dec 2018Sprovieri is delighted to present a group show including works by Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jimmie Durham, and Cildo Meireles. The exhibition will feature works by the three internationally renown conceptual...Read more -
Giorgio Morandi Cabrita Reis
28 Sep - 18 Nov 2017Sprovieri is delighted to present ‘Giorgio Morandi Cabrita Reis’, the second exhibition at the gallery of Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis together with three still lifes from 1941, 1953 and...Read more
Publications
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Atelier 19 May - 28 Jul 2024 Read more -
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Field 22 Apr - 30 Nov 2022PEDRO CABRITA REIS Field Curated by Michael Short Chiesa di San Fantin, Venice 22 April – 30 November 2022 Cabrita (* 1956 in Lisbon, Portugal),...Read more -
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The Three Graces at Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, France 13 Feb - Jun 22 Read more -
Pedro Cabrita Reis & Cerith Wyn Evans
Mudam at The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg Dec 12, 2020 - Apr 5, 2021Read more
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LA ÚLTIMA DE LAS TRIBUS at Museo de Arte de Zapopan Dec 3, 2019 - Apr 26, 2020Read more -
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CABRITA - A ROVING GAZE at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art Nov 19, 2019 - Mar 22, 2020Read more -
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CABRITA: WORK (always) IN PROGRESS at CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Nov 15, 2019 - Feb 2, 2020The show Work (always) in progress proposes a sequential exploration of the key themes of Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work, encompassing representative series such as Cabinet...Read more -
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New public commission, Central Tejo, Lisbon From 27th June 2018Read more
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Linha, Forma e Cor at Berardo Museum, Lisbon Mar 21, 2018 - Sep 16, 2018Read more -
Pedro Cabrita Reis & Jannis Kounellis
at the group show 'EMST at documenta 14' at Fridericianum Kassel Jun 10, 2017 - Sep 17, 2017Read more -
Francesco Arena, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Pedro Cabrita Reis
Re-evolution, Maxxi, Rome May 6, 2017Read more -
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Acciones Bienalsur, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur, Muntref, Buenos Aires Nov 15 2016Read more
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LES LIEUX FRAGMENTÉS at the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon January 31, 2015 Read more -
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The Independent at Frieze Art Fair 2014 October 20, 2014 Read more -
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"Fourteen paintings, the preacher and a broken line" at The Power Plant in Toronto September 20, 2014 Read more
