PRESS RELEASE PORTA 33 IN MADRID, AT ARCO WITH PEDRO CABRITA REIS

Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956, and paradigmatically integrates the awareness of a new contemporary sculpture, which we are given to know from the beginning of the nineteen-eighties. His work is defined as a highly individualised simultaneously philosophical and poetic discourse, and is established through constructive processes that are also memories of primordial and elementary gestures and acts that are repeated in everyday life.

The complex diversity of theoretical and formal relationships that Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work proposes through his paintings, sculptures, drawings or installations is developed over an anthropological reflection as opposed to the reductionism of a sociological discourse. Indeed, Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work is about emotions, memories, silences and interrogations.

Cabinet d_Amateur # 3 is the work by Pedro Cabrita Reis that Porta 33 is presenting this year at ARCO in Madrid. Twenty painted elements, squares, rectangles and MDF circles make up this new and large-scale piece in which, following on from previous works exhibited at the Serralves Museum (Cabinet d_Amateur # 1, 1999) or at the Galleria Civica de Arte Moderna, (Catalogue # 2, Turin, 2000) and at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (Cabinet d´Amateur # 2, 2001), Pedro Cabrita Reis continues to set us questions and gazes crossed by the contamination between the limits of painting, of sculpture and of the perception of space itself.

After the exhibition "Naturália - parte I", Funchal 1996, Porta 33 has the pleasure to work once again with Pedro Cabrita Reis, an artist who enjoys consolidated national and international recognition and will represent Portugal at the coming Venice Biennial in 2003.

February 14th to 19th 2002
PAVILION 9 ‹ STAND S274
Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, MADRID