José Pedro Croft

JOSE PEDRO CROFT (Porto, Portugal, 1957).
Untitled.
Etching, copy H.C. 3/3.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 130,5 x 99 cm; 149 x 106,5 cm (frame).
José Pedro Croft is one of the maximum representatives in the renovation of the Portuguese sculpture. His trajectory, inscribed both in this genre and in drawing, has been marked from the beginning by a careful constructive process in which both his formal and personal universe come into contact. His creations are always the result of an investigation into the processes that are triggered within them, and in which the visual, plastic and poetic dimensions of the objects created are interwoven, producing a sense of precarious balance between the stable and the unstable, and which, for the Portuguese artist, "reflects the transitory nature of the universe". His sculptures create complex dialogues with the environment, as well as with his own form and volume through simple, almost minimalist structures that combine both the materiality of the object and its formal aspects. Solo exhibitions (selection): 2013 Acotaciones al vacío. Paralelo Project, Mexico City. Three unaligned points. Palexco, A Coruña, Spain 2012 Dois Desenhos, uma Escultura. Appleton Square, Lisbon Stationary Process. Helga de Alvear Gallery, Madrid 2011 José Pedro Croft. The Black Box, Madrid José Pedro Croft. Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal Marcações e territórios. Chiado 8 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon 2009 José Pedro Croft. Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon. Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain Academia das Artes dos Açores, Azores, Portugal,.Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil, José Pedro Croft. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil. His work is part of international collections such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon.