Pedro Cabrita Reis Uma luz na janela

cm 186 x 81 x 20

Pedro Cabrita Reis’s work unmasks the roots of the act of building, without, however, ever flattening out into reflection on architecture as such, instead preferring the nature of its language, which, like others, can explain the intimacy of humanity’s fundamental acts. Having never entirely abandoned his early training as a painter, its influence is subtly present in his works created for the wall, where architecture is synthesized to the point of becoming two-dimensional. His work has an ironic component that disrupts the formal balance of architecture, revealing the museum’s hidden identity as a ruin. The fact that his architecture/sculpture cannot actually be used is manifest in "Uma luz na janela", which supposes a non-existent opening, suggesting a window that poetically expresses an illuminated “outside” in the background. The eye is, however, blocked and unable to go beyond the gallery wall, exposing the denial of narrativity we have been led to by contemporaneity.

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A. Pace (ed.), Pedro Cabrita Reis. Il silenzio in ascolto, exhibition catalogue (Turin, GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea), Turin 2001; P. Cabrita Reis et al., Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ostfildern 2003; S. Van der Ley (ed.), Pedro Cabrita Reis. A remote whisper, exhibition catalogue (Venice, Palazzo Falier), Madrid 2013.

Foto Patrizia Tocci

Donation by Claudia Gian Ferrari

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