Pedro Cabrita Reis at Hôtel Des Arts Toulon
Long before we began talking about up-cycling, Pedro Cabrita Reis could be found trekking through construction sites, on the hunt for old doors, electric cables, window frames and scraps of wood – what he later combines to give each element a second life. Since the 1980s, the celebrated Portuguese artists has built a career out of working with raw materials, recycled and magnified through oeuvres that exude the poetry of making things.
(Undisclosed #3, 2008)
But the successful singularity of this artist is best demonstrated in neon tubes. Transforming these cold objects, The straight uniformity of these lamps become drawn lines, as if on a 2D canvas.
(Cometa, 2015)
Toulon’s Hôtel des Arts recently opened an exhibition entirely dedicated to the artist’s works, created between 1999 and 2015. This year, Pedro Cabrita Reis will also be honored at several solo exhibitions around the world: Juana de Aizpuru Galery in Madrid, The Arts Club in Chicago, the Kewenig Gallery in Berlin and Konkrete Mehr Raum ! in Osnabrück. – Silvano Mendes
(Pedro Cabrita Reis created pieces of art especially for the Hôtel de Arts in Toulon)
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