Interview by João Sousa Cardoso
April 1999
Published in nº 4 of the magazine “desvio 256”
Calapez is a painter who paints. Paintings you would hang on your walls; an artist who produces concrete objects for the contemplation of the viewer. He is guided by an intimate, individual and incessant dialogue with the quality of his materials and stands for the currency of an eminently poetic artistic project. In his studio in the Graça district of Lisbon, we talked about his experiences in the revolutionary period and the way he sees this agitation today. We tried, however, to focus our thinking on the career and work of Pedro Calapez, outlining almost by chance, some of the principal lines of his artistic production over the last three decades. What was your experience and participation in works of art and architecture in the fervent, post-revolutionary artistic period, as a university student and (read the full article)
