As part of ISEG's 111th anniversary, the ISEG Cultural Commission and FBAUL are promoting the exhibition "Mudar de Avença", coordinated by José Carlos Pereira and featuring the following artists: Pedro Saraiva, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Francisco Queirós, João Onofre, and Filipe Romão.
The experience that the works will provide to those who visit them is simultaneously a pretext for a series of conversations about the place of the work of art in contemporary society. The values of the work of art (aesthetic, anthropological, hermeneutical, economic, among others) will be the theme chosen to highlight the role of art in the dynamic configuration of individual and collective identity, from the idea that what is seen in and through the aesthetic experience contributes to a more open, plural, and inclusive worldview. The exhibition will be supported by CIEBA (Centre for Research and Studies of Fine Arts) and CSG (Research Centre in Social Sciences and Management) of ISEG. Accompanied by a catalogue with the works, the exhibition will be on show from the 11 May 11 to the 29 June.
Curator
José Carlos Pereira has a degree in philosophy, a Masters in theories of art and a PhD in aesthetics. Poet, essayist, and professor at Universidade de Lisboa's Faculty of Fine Arts, he teaches all degree cycles. He has published 'As Doutrinas Estéticas em Portugal: do Romantismo à Presença, O Valor da Arte, A Subjectividade nos Limites da Razão' and also 'Olhar e Ver: 10 obras para compreender a Arte'. He is an integrated researcher at CIEBA, a foreign associate researcher of the Postgraduation in Visual Arts of Santa Catarina State University (Brazil), and a member of the Luso-Brazilian Philosophy Institute.
Artists
Filipe Romão
Born in Lisbon, in 1981, Filipe works and lives in Sintra. He graduated in Fine Arts - Painting - from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Universidade de Lisboa in 2008, after studying for the Bachelors of Fine Arts - Sculpture at the same Faculty. He graduated in Photography from the Technical School of Image and Communication (ETIC) in 2002.
He has been developing work in areas such as drawing, painting, photography and installation. Since 2006 he has exhibited his work regularly in group and solo exhibitions. He is represented in public and private collections, such as the Norlinda and José Lima Collection, Museu Arqueológico do Carmo, ER Collection, Centro de Estudos Judiciários, among others.
Pedro Saraiva
Lives and works in Lisbon (Born in Lisbon in 1952).
He has exhibited regularly since the 1980s, participating in several solo and group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, among which the following are highlighted: AICA, Lisbon; Art19/88Basel (Switzerland); Art LA88Los Angeles (USA); Coop. Tree, Porto; Crystal Palace, Porto; Fence HouseAlmada; BerlindaBerlin (Germany); Modulo-art diffusion center, Lisbon and Porto; SNBA, Lisbon; Monte Carlo (Monaco); ARCOMadrid (Spain); MEIACBadajoz (Spain), Portuguese Cultural Centre-Camions (Luxembourg), is represented in several public and private collections, including: Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, Centro Cultural de Almancil, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Galeria Redies (Germany), Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Museu Catânia (Italy), Museu Municipal de Sintra, Sociedade de Advogados PLMJ, Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Modulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Havana (Cuba), Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Casa da Cerca, Almada, Banco Comércio e Industria, Giefarte- Gab. Internacional de Estudos e Financiamento de Arte, Vatican Library, etc.
Francisco Queirós
Born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal, he lives and works in Sintra.
He studied Fine Art - Painting (1993-1999) and has exhibited regularly, both individually and collectively, since the mid-1990s, with his work being represented in several national and international public and private collections.
His work explores the possibilities of the nature of things through associations of images and language, creating new meanings and blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Spanning a wide spectrum of media, such as video, installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, and live performance, his work is interwined with untamed desires, tensions between order and chaos, and doing and not doing, as well as the physicality of processes and the truth of the moment, where everything can simultaneously be many things and yet their opposite without any contradiction.
João Onofre
Born in Lisbon, 1976, where he lives and works.
He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, having completed a Masters of Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College of the University of London in the UK in 1999, and a PhD in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts, Universidade de Coimbra in 2018. In 2022 he was the first artist to be awarded the Universidade de Lisboa/CGD Prize for the Arts.
His recent exhibitions include: João Onofre, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2021); Once in a Lifetime [Repeat], Culturgest, Lisbon (2019); Untitled (orchestral), MAAT, Lisbon (2017). His solo exhibitions include: I-20, New York (2001-2006); P.S.1. / MoMA Contemporary Art Center, New York (2002); Nothing Will Go WrongMNAC, Lisbon, and CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2003); Project Space Kunsthalle Wien- Karlsplatz. Vienna (2003). João Onofre, Magazin 4, Bregenz, (2004); Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona (2002-2005- 2007); Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2004-2007-2012); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona and Palais de Tokyo, Paris both in 2011; Marlborough Contemporary, London (2014); Kunstpavillion, Munich, Germany (2015); and Appleton Square, Lisbon (2016).
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956, the city where he lives and works.
With a consolidated international recognition, his work has become crucial for the understanding of sculpture since the mid-1980s. His complex work, which is characterised by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetic discourse, encompasses a wide variety of media, namely: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installations composed of waste materials and manufactured objects. Using simple materials and subjecting them to constructive processes, Cabrita Reis recycles almost anonymous reminiscences of primordial gestures and actions repeated in everyday life. Centred on issues related to space and memory, his works acquire a suggestive power of association that attains a metaphorical dimension, progressing beyond the visual dimension.
The complex theoretical and formal diversity of Cabrita's work stems from an anthropological reflection that is contrary to the reductionism of sociological discourse. Indeed, Cabrita Reis' work is based on silence and questions.
He has participated in important international exhibitions, such as Documenta IX and XIV in Kassel in 1992 and 2017, the 21st and 24th São Paulo Biennials in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and Aperto at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2003, he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale, in 2013 he presented "A Remote Whisper", 55a Biennale di Venezia , and in 2009 participated in Xème Biennale de LyonThe Spectacle of the Everyday. In 2022 Cabrita Reis presented "Les Trois Grâces" at the Tuileries, curated by the Louvre Museum, and Cabrita Reis presented "Field" at the Chiesa di San on the occasion of the 59th Venice Biennale.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
"Sometimes one can see the clouds passing by, Kunsthalle Bern, 2004;
"Stillness, Camden Arts CentreLondon, 2004;
"True Gardens #3 (Dijon)", FRAC BourgogneDijon, 2004;
"Pedro Cabrita Reis", MACRO, Museum of Contemporary ArtRome, 2006;
"La ciudad de adentro, OPA, Guadalajara, 2007;
"True Gardens #6", Kunsthaus GrazGraz, 2008;
"Pedro Cabrita Reis, Fondazione MerzTorino, 2008;
"La Línea del Volcán, Tamayo MuseumMexico City, 2009;
"Deposition." Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2010;
"One after another, a few silent steps" (itinerary exhibition), Hamburger KunsthalleHamburg, 2009 - Carré D'Art, Nîmes, 2010 - Museum for Contemporary ArtLeuven, 2011 - Berardo Collection MuseumLisbon, 2011;
"States of Flux - Pedro Cabrita Reis, Tate ModernLondon, 2011-2013;
"A Remote Whisper," Palazzo Falier, Venice, 2013;
"Lifted Gauze, From Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2014;
"Some names." Mul.ti.plo Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, 2014;
"Fourteen paintings, the preacher and a broken line", The Power Plant, Toronto, 2014;
"The London angles, Sprovieri Gallery, London, 2014;
"The Field, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, 2014;
"Herbarium (Madrid), Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, 2015;
"Les lieux fragmentés", Hotel des Arts, Toulon, 2015;
"A few drawings, a façade inside and a possible staircase", The Arts Club, Chicago, 2015;
"Pedro Cabrita Reis, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, 2015;
"Pedro Cabrita Reis, Konkrete Mehr Raum!, Osnabrück, 2015;
"La casa di Roma - L'Albero della Cuccagna," MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2015;
"The house of Coimbra - anozero'15 - a roll of the dice, Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art", Sala da Cidade, Refectory of the Convent of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, 2015;
"Fallen and Standing," Kewenig Galerie, Palma de Mallorca, 2016;
"Show me your wound - TEFAF Maastricht", Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) 2016;
"Art Unlimited / Basel 2016," Halls Messe Basel, Hall 2.1, Basel 2016;
"Das pequenas coisas", Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon 2017;
"Parcours," Art Basel, Basel's Münsterplatz, Basel 2017;
"Col-Lecció per Amor a L'Art. Ornament = Delicte?", Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, Valencia 2017;
"Pedro Cabrita Reis - La Forêt (Marseille)," MUCEM, Marseille 2018;
"Pedro Cabrita Reis," Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich 2019;
"Work (always) in progress", CGAC, Santiago de Compostela 2019;
"A roving gaze", Serralves, Porto 2019;
"Cabrita - Cabinet d'amateur", CAC Malaga, Malaga, 2020;
"Les Trois Grâces," Louvre Tuileries, Paris, 2022;
"Field," Chiesa de San Fantin, on the occasion of the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022