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October 2009 – 28 February 2010
Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956)
A
propos des lieux d’origine #1, 2005
© Collection Musée
d’Art Moderne
Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg
Photo:
Florian Kleinefenn
Born
in Lisbon in 1956, Pedro Cabrita Reis is one
of the leading Portuguese artists of his generation. The
exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle will be
his first presentation in a German museum since 1996. Cabrita
Reis has exhibited widely and participated in numerous
international exhibitions, including documenta IX in 1992; in
2003 he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale.
Currently, he is participating in the 10th Lyon Biennale with
two large works. In the most comprehensive show by the artist
to date, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting around sixty
sculptures, including several large-scale pieces, paintings,
drawings and photographs from 1985 to 2009, covering the
entire basement floor of the Galerie der
Gegenwart.
Since
the early 1990s, Cabrita Reis’s work has revolved around the
themes of housing, habitation, construction and territory.
Along with artworks based on elements of everyday life, such
as tables and chairs or doors and windows, he often creates
expansive installations that fill the exhibition spaces with
both complex and imposing structures. He counters the classic
white cube with his use of massive brick walls, found objects
and industrial materials such as neon tubes, steel girders or
rough wooden planks.
Pedro Cabrita Reis
(*1956)
Dans les Villes #2, 1998
Col. Carlos
Sousa, long term loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte
Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
© Pedro Cabrita Reis, Photo:
Marc Domage
Pedro
Cabrita Reis is a keen collector, both of the flotsam of
civilization and of sensory impressions. For him, discarded
everyday objects are just as welcome finds as the panorama of
an abandoned building site or an old olive tree. Like retinal
afterimages, such visual stimuli plant the seed of an idea for
one of his melancholic-archaic sculptures or for a new
painting. In his work, Cabrita Reis repeatedly addresses
fundamental issues of art; he explores the concepts of
painting and sculpture and develops sculptural methods of
drawing in space. While Cabrita Reis’s rugged walls and the
cardboard sheds held together with adhesive tape might at
first glance seem to refer to social realities outside the
realm of art, they are not bound up with these realities, nor
do they attempt to duplicate them; instead, they transform
them into intriguing and sometimes quite literally opaque
artworks. Wherever windows appear in Cabrita Reis’s
installations, they are invariably blind, boarded up or
painted over, the doors to his dwellings are inaccessible.
Cidades Cegas (Blind Cities) is the title of a group of works
whose stoically melancholic appearance alludes to the
Unbehaustheit (‘homelessness’) of man as a basic constant of
the human condition – one of the leitmotifs in Cabrita Reis’s
oeuvre.
Pedro Cabrita Reis
(*1956)
Les dormeurs,
2009
© Pedro Cabrita Reis, Photo: Blaise Adilon
10e
Biennale de Lyon 2009, Lyon
In
addition to works on loan from major museums and private
collections, the exhibition features new works that have been
developed especially for the Hamburger Kunsthalle. After
premiering in Hamburg, it will travel to the Carré d’Art in
Nîmes and the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. It is the
first exhibition of the new curator of the Galerie der
Gegenwart, Sabrina van der Ley, in the Hamburger
Kunsthalle.
Pedro Cabrita Reis
(*1956)
I dreamt your house was a line, 2003
©
Pedro Cabrita Reis, Photo: Roland
Gutierrez
A
comprehensive catalogue with 200 colour illustrations has been
published to accompany the exhibition and features amongst
other texts by António Lobo Antunes, Dieter Schwarz and Pedro
Cabrita Reis. It is available for 48 € from the museum shop
or www.freunde-der-kunsthalle.de.
Curated
by Sabrina van der Ley
Made possible
by:
Supported by:
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