Filipa Oliveira, curatorial text

Pedro Calapez is one of the most successful painters in the current national art scene. It would be easy to keep his course without modifying his work. However, Calapez inhabits painting with a sense of crisis, constantly destabilizes his own practice introducing new challenges, new ways of painting, new media. On one of my first visits to his atelier, I noticed a couple of painted bricks on the wall. When questioning him about those works, Calapez answered they were mere experiments. Shortly after, they were bouncing from the atelier’s walls to those of an exhibition (Ácido, 2011). And now, the bricks regain a…  (read the full article)