Showing posts with label Sprovieri Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sprovieri Gallery. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

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).
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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)."

Thursday, 19 June 2014

A day at the... tracks

Urs Fisher
Sadie Coles HQ
69 South Audley Street
London W1K 2QZ
Ice Fishing: McArthur Binion, Bill Bollinger, Charles Harlan, Virginia Overton, Michael E. Smith (curated by Darren Flook)
Max Wigram Gallery
106 New Bond Street
London W1S 1DN
Michael E. Smith, Sleep (exhaust pipe, taxidermied chicken), 2013
Elisa Sighicelli
MOTINTERNATIONAL London
72 New Bond St. 1st Fl.
London W1S 1RR

Adriana Varejão:
Carnivorous
Victoria Miro Mayfair
14 St George Street
London W1S 1FE
Richard Jackson
New Paintings
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
London W1S 2ET
Phyllida Barlow
Fifty Years of Drawings
Hauser & Wirth
23 Saville Row
London W1S 2ET
Eva Nielsen
The Road
Selma Feriani Gallery
23 Maddox Street, Mayfair
London W1S 2QN

Mario Dellavedova
Still Lifes Off
Sprovieri
23 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BQ
Jim Lambie
Answer Machine
Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
London W1B 5QN
Obliteration Device: Jakup Auce | Aline Bouvy | David Burrows | John Cussans | Benedict Drew | Ryan Jordan | Simon O'Sullivan | Roberto Peyre | Hannah Sawtell | Tai Shani
IMT Gallery
Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ UK

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Avish Khebrehzadeh: Maskhara

Avish Khebrehzadeh
Maskhara
Sprovieri Gallery

Born in Iran in 1969, Avish Khebrehzadeh lived in Madagascar, UK, Italy and the United States. Khebrehzadeh’s work is part of important public collections such as the GAM (Turin), the MAXXI (Rome) and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington DC) among others. Her participation in biennials includes Santa Fe, Istanbul, Liverpool and Venice in 2003 when she won the Golden Lion for best young Italian artist. [... MORE ...]