Pedro Proença
Interviews
Selected Artworks
This is me, I cannot escape being me, nor my limitations.
Pedro Proença in interview with Ana Sousa Dias for Diário de Notícias.
Exhibitions
Pedro Proença was born in 1962, Lubango, Angola. He lives and works in Lisbon. He has exhibited regularly since 1981. In 1982, he founded with some colegues the delirious Movimento Homeostético, focusing on complexity, erotics, humor, self-liberation and sometimes politcs. His first solo show was in 1984, and has been followed by more solos at the Galeria Fucares (87), the Frith Gallery (89), at the Pallazo Ruspoli (94), the Gulbenkian Foundation (94), the Frankfurt Kunstwerein (1988), the Camargo Vilaça gallery (1988), among others.
He also took part in the Aperto of the Venice Biennial in 1988. His work stages complexity through multiple stylistic beats, in a kind of delirious pastureland of hundreds of heteronym, mainly artists, writers and curators, wich were displaied in his last exihibitions since. The artist frequently responds to the stylistic stimulus of history (the baroque, the rococo, the middle ages, conceptual art) but approaches these moments to produce games of forms an fictions that are like programming, very similar to that of Oulipo procedures.
He also took part in the Aperto of the Venice Biennial in 1988. His work stages complexity through multiple stylistic beats, in a kind of delirious pastureland of what we could call "near heteronyms". The artist frequently responds to the stylistic stimulus of history (the baroque, the rococo, the middle ages) but approaches these moments to produce games of forms that are like programming, very similar to that of computer games.
Pedro Proença was born in 1962, Lubango, Angola. He lives and works in Lisbon. He has exhibited regularly since 1981. In 1982, he founded with some colegues the delirious Movimento Homeostético, focusing on complexity, erotics, humor, self-liberation and sometimes politcs. His first solo show was in 1984, and has been followed by more solos at the Galeria Fucares (87), the Frith Gallery (89), at the Pallazo Ruspoli (94), the Gulbenkian Foundation (94), the Frankfurt Kunstwerein (1988), the Camargo Vilaça gallery (1988), among others.
He also took part in the Aperto of the Venice Biennial in 1988. His work stages complexity through multiple stylistic beats, in a kind of delirious pastureland of hundreds of heteronym, mainly artists, writers and curators, wich were displaied in his last exihibitions since. The artist frequently responds to the stylistic stimulus of history (the baroque, the rococo, the middle ages, conceptual art) but approaches these moments to produce games of forms an fictions that are like programming, very similar to that of Oulipo procedures.
Artist Bio
He also took part in the Aperto of the Venice Biennial in 1988. His work stages complexity through multiple stylistic beats, in a kind of delirious pastureland of hundreds of heteronym, mainly artists, writers and curators, which were displaied in his last exihibitions since. The artist frequently responds to the stylistic stimulus of history (the baroque, the rococo, the middle ages, conceptual art) but approaches these moments to produce games of forms an fictions that are like programming, very similar to that of Oulipo procedures.
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 Proença was born in 1962, Lubango, Angola. He lives and works in Lisbon. He has exhibited regularly since 1981. In 1982, he founded with some colegues the delirious Movimento Homeostético, focusing on complexity, erotics, humor, self-liberation and sometimes politcs. His first solo show was in 1984, and has been followed by more solos at the Galeria Fucares (87), the Frith Gallery (89), at the Pallazo Ruspoli (94), the Gulbenkian Foundation (94), the Frankfurt Kunstwerein (1988), the Camargo Vilaça gallery (1988), among others.