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I dreamt you house was a line ( an illstations by )
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February 8 - March 23, 2003
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2003
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University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
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Anja Chavez
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One after another, a few silent steps will be Cabrita Reis' first retrospective show in Belgium. It is the most comprehensive survey of the Portuguese artist's works to date, and brings together about sixty works dating from 1985 until 2010, sculptures, paintings, photographs and installations. Alongside loans from museums and private collections, the exhibition also includes new works conceived especially for this show. The context of M, with its historical collection and the interaction between old and contemporary art exhibitions, functions as an interesting context for Cabrita's work. Some works from the historical collection will be included in the exhibition. The work of Pedro Cabrita Reis (Lisbon, °1956) revolves around themes such as housing, living spaces, construction and territory. Drawing inspiration from daily life, he combines commonplace objects such as tables, chairs and doors with industrial materials. Cabrita's work is crucial for the understanding of the new paradigm in sculpture that has come about since the middle of the 1980s. His complex oeuvre is marked by a highly individualized philosophical and poetic discourse, and encompasses a variety of media. Using simple materials, Pedro Cabrita Reis recycles through constructive processes, almost anonymous memories of primordial gestures and actions that we repeat every day. His works touch on issues of space, architecture and memory, with a suggestive power of association that goes beyond the visual to a metaphorical level. Almost minimalist in its use of beams, aluminium frames, the symbol of modern architecture, verging on Arte Povera in the use of everyday items, Cabrita Reis's work adds a singular voice to this history of recent art. It also bears the stamp of the Mediterranean and traces of an ancient thought. At the same time the work will take you out of your comfort zone. The exhibitions rather presents itself as a succession of actions, creating a certain specific spatial tension. While he does uses 3D space, Pedro Cabrita Reis is more than just a sculptor. His oeuvre can truly call upon the main categories of art. The fluorescent tubes, one of the artist's preferred materials, while producing a halo of light, determine a line like the one the pencil draws on a sheet of paper. The aluminium front frames, the plaster, the safety glass panels, the bricks, the mere electric cable etc.; all these materials contribute towards a system of representation without losing any of their mysterious everyday quality as objects. These works challenge the boundary between the inside and outside, between construction and object. In 2010 the exhibition was on show in Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Musée Carré d'Art in Nîmes, and it will travel later in 2011 to the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. Pedro Cabrita Reis Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956, where he lives and works. He has participated in many important international exhibitions. Among others, his work was shown at Documenta IX Kassel in 1992, at 22nd and 24th São Paulo Biennales, respectively in 1994 and 1998, at the Venice Biennale Aperto in 1997. In 2003 he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Since then his work has been featured in many museum exhibitions. Artist Talk 29 April 2011, 8pm Conversation between Pedro Cabrita Reis and British art critic Adrian Searle (The Guardian). Reservation: bezoekm@leuven.be M has the support of the City of Leuven, Province Vlaams-Brabant and the Flemish Community. In cooperation with the Embassy of Portugal in Brussels, with the support of the Instituto Camões. An English catalogue is published by Editions Hatje Cantz, with essays by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Dieter Schwarz, Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter, and written notes by the artist. In Leuven a Dutch version is also available. *Image above: Photo: Roland Gutierrez. Collection of the artist (project).
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One after another, a few silent steps will be Cabrita Reis' first retrospective show in Belgium. It is the most comprehensive survey of the Portuguese artist's works to date, and brings together about sixty works dating from 1985 until 2010, sculptures, paintings, photographs and installations. Alongside loans from museums and private collections, the exhibition also includes new works conceived especially for this show. The context of M, with its historical collection and the interaction between old and contemporary art exhibitions, functions as an interesting context for Cabrita's work. Some works from the historical collection will be included in the exhibition. The work of Pedro Cabrita Reis (Lisbon, °1956) revolves around themes such as housing, living spaces, construction and territory. Drawing inspiration from daily life, he combines commonplace objects such as tables, chairs and doors with industrial materials. Cabrita's work is crucial for the understanding of the new paradigm in sculpture that has come about since the middle of the 1980s. His complex oeuvre is marked by a highly individualized philosophical and poetic discourse, and encompasses a variety of media. Using simple materials, Pedro Cabrita Reis recycles through constructive processes, almost anonymous memories of primordial gestures and actions that we repeat every day. His works touch on issues of space, architecture and memory, with a suggestive power of association that goes beyond the visual to a metaphorical level. Almost minimalist in its use of beams, aluminium frames, the symbol of modern architecture, verging on Arte Povera in the use of everyday items, Cabrita Reis's work adds a singular voice to this history of recent art. It also bears the stamp of the Mediterranean and traces of an ancient thought. At the same time the work will take you out of your comfort zone. The exhibitions rather presents itself as a succession of actions, creating a certain specific spatial tension. While he does uses 3D space, Pedro Cabrita Reis is more than just a sculptor. His oeuvre can truly call upon the main categories of art. The fluorescent tubes, one of the artist's preferred materials, while producing a halo of light, determine a line like the one the pencil draws on a sheet of paper. The aluminium front frames, the plaster, the safety glass panels, the bricks, the mere electric cable etc.; all these materials contribute towards a system of representation without losing any of their mysterious everyday quality as objects. These works challenge the boundary between the inside and outside, between construction and object. In 2010 the exhibition was on show in Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Musée Carré d'Art in Nîmes, and it will travel later in 2011 to the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. Pedro Cabrita Reis Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956, where he lives and works. He has participated in many important international exhibitions. Among others, his work was shown at Documenta IX Kassel in 1992, at 22nd and 24th São Paulo Biennales, respectively in 1994 and 1998, at the Venice Biennale Aperto in 1997. In 2003 he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Since then his work has been featured in many museum exhibitions. Artist Talk 29 April 2011, 8pm Conversation between Pedro Cabrita Reis and British art critic Adrian Searle (The Guardian). Reservation: bezoekm@leuven.be M has the support of the City of Leuven, Province Vlaams-Brabant and the Flemish Community. In cooperation with the Embassy of Portugal in Brussels, with the support of the Instituto Camões. An English catalogue is published by Editions Hatje Cantz, with essays by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Dieter Schwarz, Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter, and written notes by the artist. In Leuven a Dutch version is also available. *Image above: Photo: Roland Gutierrez. Collection of the artist (project).
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copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
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Reis, Pedro Cabrita
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Portuguese
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Portuguese
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1956 -
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Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991) and Williams College (2001). Spero is a pioneer of feminist art. Her work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Spero samples from a rich range of visual sources of women as protagonistsfrom Egyptian hieroglyphics, seventeenth-century French history painting, and Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie advertisements. Spero's figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on monumental scrolls, and visually reinforce principles of equality and tolerance. Spero was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006). Awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association (2005); the Honor Award from the Women's Caucus for Art (2003); the Hiroshima Art Prize (jointly with Leon Golub, 1996); and the Skowhegan Medal (1995). Major exhibitions include Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (2003); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1994); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988). Spero lived and worked in New York, where she passed away in October 2009.
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Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991) and Williams College (2001). Spero is a pioneer of feminist art. Her work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Spero samples from a rich range of visual sources of women as protagonistsfrom Egyptian hieroglyphics, seventeenth-century French history painting, and Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie advertisements. Spero's figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on monumental scrolls, and visually reinforce principles of equality and tolerance. Spero was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006). Awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association (2005); the Honor Award from the Women's Caucus for Art (2003); the Hiroshima Art Prize (jointly with Leon Golub, 1996); and the Skowhegan Medal (1995). Major exhibitions include Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (2003); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1994); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988). Spero lived and worked in New York, where she passed away in October 2009.
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A collection works by Nancy Spero
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A collection works by Nancy Spero
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1971 - 1972
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feminism
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