PEDRO QUINTAS - DOBRA
Opening: March 31st, 6 pm - 9:30 pm.
Exhibition: 01- 30 April 2022
The Rui Freire - Fine Art Gallery, Lisbon, is pleased to announce DOBRA, Pedro Quintas' first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition presents a selection of paintings made mainly during the period of confinement.
Pedro Quintas recent paintings explore the forms arising from the formal possibilities of folds made on a flat surface.
In this group of paintings, whose theme is ultimately the process of his creation, the artist activates a compositional game of placement, removal, and juxtaposition of elements that communicate with each other. Pedro Quintas approaches each canvas imposing rules that are adjusted as the work progresses. Intuitively he interweaves the forms, in layers, creating compositions that obey an internal logic, evidenced by the irregularities and seams of the underlying layers. The careful use of color reinforces this pictorial mise-en-scène.
This dynamic organization follows a self-determined and evolving set of parameters. The resulting forms and figures reveal a tension between their status as still images and their apparent potential for movement, opening up formal possibilities that the viewer can unveil and that result from the displacement of the folds.
Pedro Quintas was born in Lisbon in 1972. He finished his studies in Plastic Arts in 2001, at Ar.Co. - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, in Lisbon. Since then, he regularly exhibits, individually and collectively, works in painting, drawing and photography.
His work is included in collections such as the AR.CO Collection, Lisbon; António Cachola / MACE Collection, Elvas; Museu Berardo Collection, Lisbon; MAAT / EDP Foundation Collection, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon; as well as in several national and international private collections.
