Pedro Calapez (Lisbon, 1953) occupies a prominent position on the contemporary Portuguese art scene, particularly in a filed like the pictorial, in which the main authorities of his country, celebrated internationally over the last decades, are currently showing signs of exhaustion. Pedro Calapez’s interests have moved him over three decades of artistic activity to draw up different plastic, pictorial and sculptural proposals that participate in a sense of installation. His painting, towards the technical and formal configuration of which he usually employs various differing supports, industrially-made parallelepipeds, mainly of… (read the full article)