Artworks
Pedro Calapez
Estado de Imersão
17 FEBRUARY - 8 APRIL 2023
I'm using photography as a way to investigate and try to understand these seas. I attempted to make them more artificial and less natural.
Nuno Cera in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Exhibition Views
Photographic documentation
Among the one-person exhibitions we can single out: “Drawings”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation; “Body Building”, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon; “Rui Sanches, Retrospective”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation and “Museum”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Some important group-exhibitions were: the 19th São Paulo Bienal; “PASTFUTURETENSE”, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery; “Tríptico”, Europália 91. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; “From Silence to Light”, Watari-Um, Tóquio; “Abstract/Real”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Viena; “Dentro y Fuera” Cáceres and “Serralves 2009 – The Collection”, Museu de Serralves, Porto. During the 1980’s his work was based on the deconstruction of paintings and genres of painting.
Pedro Calapez was born in Lisbon (1953) where he lives and works. He began taking part in exhibitions in the seventies and in 1982 had his first solo exhibition. He has exhibited his work individually in various galleries and museums, most notably Histórias de objectos , Casa de la Cittá, Roma, Carré des Arts, Paris and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1991); Petit jardin et paysage , Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993); Memória involuntária , Chiado Museum, Lisbon (1996); Campo de Sombras , Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Majorca (1997); Studiolo , INTERVAL-Raum fur Kunst und Kultur, Witten, Germany (1998); Madre Agua , MEIAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz and CAAC – Andalucia Contemporary Art Centre (2002); Selected works 1992-2004, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2004); piso zero, CGAC – Galicia Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de Compostela (2005); Lugares de pintura , CAB – Caja Burgos Art Centre, Burgos (2005).
Most outstanding among the various collective exhibitions in which he has taken part are the biennials of venice (1986) and s.paulo (1987 and 1991) and the exhibitions: 10 contemporâneos , serralves museum, oporto (1992); perspectives , marne-la-vallée contemporary art centre (1994); the day after tomorrow , ccb – belém cultural centre, lisbon (1994); ecos de la materia , meiac, badajoz (1996); tage der dunkelheit und des lichts , bonn art museum (1999); edp.arte , serralves museum, oporto (2001); del zero al 2005. insights on portuguese art – marcelino botín foundation, santander (2005); beaufort outside – inside, contemporary art triennial, pmmk museum, ostende (2006).
Artist Bio
Most outstanding among the various collective exhibitions in which he has taken part are the biennials of venice (1986) and s.paulo (1987 and 1991) and the exhibitions: 10 contemporâneos , serralves museum, oporto (1992); perspectives , marne-la-vallée contemporary art centre (1994); the day after tomorrow , ccb – belém cultural centre, lisbon (1994); ecos de la materia , meiac, badajoz (1996); tage der dunkelheit und des lichts , bonn art museum (1999); edp.arte , serralves museum, oporto (2001); del zero al 2005. insights on portuguese art – marcelino botín foundation, santander (2005); beaufort outside – inside, contemporary art triennial, pmmk museum, ostende (2006).
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Pedro Calapez was born in Lisbon (1953) where he lives and works. He began taking part in exhibitions in the seventies and in 1982 had his first solo exhibition. He has exhibited his work individually in various galleries and museums, most notably Histórias de objectos , Casa de la Cittá, Roma, Carré des Arts, Paris and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1991); Petit jardin et paysage , Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993); Memória involuntária , Chiado Museum, Lisbon (1996); Campo de Sombras , Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Majorca (1997); Studiolo , INTERVAL-Raum fur Kunst und Kultur, Witten, Germany (1998); Madre Agua , MEIAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz and CAAC – Andalucia Contemporary Art Centre (2002); Selected works 1992-2004, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2004); piso zero, CGAC – Galicia Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de Compostela (2005); Lugares de pintura , CAB – Caja Burgos Art Centre, Burgos (2005).
Artist Bio
Pedro Calapez was born in Lisbon (1953) where he lives and works. He began taking part in exhibitions in the seventies and in 1982 had his first solo exhibition. He has exhibited his work individually in various galleries and museums, most notably Histórias de objectos , Casa de la Cittá, Roma, Carré des Arts, Paris and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1991); Petit jardin et paysage , Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993); Memória involuntária , Chiado Museum, Lisbon (1996); Campo de Sombras , Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Majorca (1997); Studiolo , INTERVAL-Raum fur Kunst und Kultur, Witten, Germany (1998); Madre Agua , MEIAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz and CAAC – Andalucia Contemporary Art Centre (2002); Selected works 1992-2004, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2004); piso zero, CGAC – Galicia Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de Compostela (2005); Lugares de pintura , CAB – Caja Burgos Art Centre, Burgos (2005).
Most outstanding among the various collective exhibitions in which he has taken part are the biennials of venice (1986) and s.paulo (1987 and 1991) and the exhibitions: 10 contemporâneos , serralves museum, oporto (1992); perspectives , marne-la-vallée contemporary art centre (1994); the day after tomorrow , ccb – belém cultural centre, lisbon (1994); ecos de la materia , meiac, badajoz (1996); tage der dunkelheit und des lichts , bonn art museum (1999); edp.arte , serralves museum, oporto (2001); del zero al 2005. insights on portuguese art – marcelino botín foundation, santander (2005); beaufort outside – inside, contemporary art triennial, pmmk museum, ostende (2006).
Artist Bio
Exhibition Views
Photographic documentation
Selected Artworks
For many years there were no painters and at certain times painting was forgotten. It is a more lonely and time-consuming job and maybe many artists are not up to it or maybe everyone is sick of painting.
Pedro Casqueiro in conversation with Nuno Crespo for Público.