Pedro Cabrita Reis
“Sometimes one can see the clouds passing by”
23 October - 5 December 2004
Kunsthalle Bern
Helvatiaplatz 1,3005 Bern
Switzerland
Tel. +41 31 350 00 40
E-Mail: kunsthalle [at] bluewin.ch www.kunsthallebern.ch
Wed to Sun: 10am – 5pm
Tue: 10am -7pm
Mon: closed
The Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis (*1956) has occupied a surprisingly steady place on the art scene for almost 20 years. Since featuring at the Documenta (documenta IX, 1992) he has been invited to all the import biennales. Sao Paulo (1994), Kwangju and Venice (1995), etc. In 2003 he represented his country at the 50th Biennale in Venice. Currently he is presenting work at the 1st Sevilla Biennale, curated by Harald Szeemann, in Genua (Palazzo Ducale) at the exhibition Arti & Architettura 1900-2000 by Germano Celant. One solo exhibition is showing in Antwerp (Middelheim Museum), another one will open in London (Camden Arts Centre) in November.
Over the years Reis’s work has steadily held its own against all the new trends and movements. This is due on the one hand to the artist’s indomitable creative drive and on the other, certainly, to the timeless, universal themes that he consistently refines and enhances.
Pedro Cabrita Reis’s media are industrially produced and found materials, colour and light, his motifs walls, windows, doors, stairs, gardens, fountains, chairs, tables, shelves…, his preferred themes are space, architecture, (collective and individual) memory, in brief: all possible and imagined locations where people can be found.
The artist has created a series of new works for the Bern exhibition. He proceeded analytically: Parts of a house (floor, ceiling, wall, staircase, a door, a window) are scattered like three-dimensional drawings throughout the spaces and even spill out of the front door. The open structures so characteristic of Reis’s work merge ideally with the flowing spatial sequences of the Kunsthalle. The synthesis however has to be made by the visitor himself: the full house can only be put together in his mind, where it triggers his memories and fantasies, ideally even his poetic potentials: “sometimes you can see the clouds passing by”.
Further information: www.pedrocabritareis.com
Exhibition:
October 23 – December 5, 2004
Opening: October 22, 6 pm
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm
Tuesday 10am to 7pm
closed on Mondays
Kunsthalle Bern
Helvatiaplatz 1
3005 Bern
Switzerland
Tel. +41 31 350 00 40
E-Mail: kunsthalle@bluewin.ch www.kunsthallebern.ch
