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Pedro Proença
História Natural
14 OCTOBER - 12 NOVEMBER 2022
Watercolor is probably the most difficult medium to work with.
It depends on the papers, on the humidity, on the temperature of the day, whether it
dries faster or slower.
Pedro Proença in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
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Suddently I began to draw almost d'après nature: little plants, flowers, cactus, vegetable forms above all. The interest in scientific illustration is a richer repertoire of images.
Pedro Proença in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
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 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, 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.
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.
Artist Bio
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.
