Pedro Cabrita Reis: The London Angles

Pedro Cabrita Reis
The London Angles
Sprovieri London

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Undisclosed #1 (glass, aluminium, acrylic on wood, found wood objects,
armatures, fluorescent lamps, electric cables, 206x312x34 cm), 2008.

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Learning Frames #3 (aluminium frames, glass, MDF,
armature, fluorescent light and electric cables, 200x125x67 cm), 2014.

Pedro Cabrita Reis’ «complex work can be characterised by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetical discourse embracing a great variety of means: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installations composed of industrial and found materials and manufactured objects. Focused on questions relative to space and memory, his work is based and built on investigations and silences.

‘With a certain frequency Pedro Cabrita Reis' work expounds a discourse on space tied to reflection. The compositions form a precious balancing act between light and matter. Many of the exhibited pieces display a relationship with the concept of windows which in the work of the Portuguese artist is amplified, not merely by the Renaissance structure of the frame/window itself – a technique ready to open new abstract perspectives on the concept of space – but in that particular use of materials tied to the construction of a window.

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" (Pedro Cabrita Reis).
» [...MORE...]

Pedro Cabrita Reis, London Angles #1, #2, and #3 (aluminium, fluorescent
lights and electric cables, etc.), 2014.

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Raw Canvas #2 (raw canvas, MDF, fluorescent light, electric cables,
enamel on aluminium, 226x260x8.5 cm), 2014.

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Les Couleurs Suite (the small ones), The Yellows #1 (double glass, aluminium frame,
acrylic on raw canvas, 108x87x12 cm), 2014 [detail].

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Les Couleurs Suite (the small ones), The Whites #1 [Right] and Les Couleurs Suite (the small ones),
The Blacks #1 [Left] (double glass, aluminium frame, acrylic on raw canvas, 108x87x12 cm), 2014.

Pedro Cabrita Reis (b. 1956 in Lisbon) "work has steadily received international acknowledgement, thus becoming crucial and decisive for the understanding of sculpture from the mid 1980s onwards. He participated in important international exhibitions: the 55th Venice Biennale with the site-specific work 'A remote whisper' (2013), the 10th Biennale de Lyon, 'The Spectacle of the Everyday’ (2009), the 50th Venice Biennale where he represented Portugal (2003), the 'Aperto' of the Venice Biennale (1997), the 21st and 24th São Paulo Biennales (1994 and 1998) and Documenta IX in Kassel (1992).

He has exhibited extensively across the globe including the current exhibition at the Power Plant in Toronto, Tate Modern, London (2013), Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon (2011), Museum for Contemporary Art, Leuven (2011), Carré d’Art, Nîmes (2010), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2009), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2009), Fondazione Merz, Torino (2008), Kunsthaus Graz (2008), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2006), Modern Art Center, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2006), Kunsthalle Bern (2004) and Camden Arts Centre, London (2004)."