José Pedro Croft

JOSÉ PEDRO CROFT (Porto, Portugal, 1957).
Untitled.
Bench and wooden board on plaster.
Measurements: 130 x 66 x 70 cm.
The piece of furniture we now present is a piece of furniture that denies all possible functionality. The table and stool are placed on a cylinder that threatens the balance of the composition, turning it into an impossible piece of furniture.
José Pedro Croft is one of the leading representatives of the renewal of Portuguese sculpture. His career, both in this genre and in drawing, has been marked from the outset by a careful constructive process in which both his formal and personal universes come into contact. His creations are always the result of an investigation into the processes that take place within them, in which the visual, plastic and poetic dimensions of the objects created are interwoven, producing a sensation of precarious equilibrium 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 their surroundings, as well as with their own form and volume by means of 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 DF. Tres puntos no alineados. Palexco, A Coruña, Spain 2012 Dois Desenhos, uma Escultura. Appleton Square, Lisbon Stationary Process. Helga de Alvear Gallery, Madrid 2011 José Pedro Croft. La Caja Negra, 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, Paris, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.