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Biography
Portuguese sculptor born in Oporto. He studied painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. His first one-man exhibition was held in 1983. He started working with industrially cut stone and sculpted extremely large pieces of work. He creates "Stack-pieces" made of marble slabs he placed one on top of the other, statues, columns, tombs, ruins - in relation with time and death. In his most recent work he uses other materials like plaster-of-Paris, clay mould, and bronze and has been engaged in exploring the relationship between sculpture and objects used in daily life, and the way everything connects up with the surrounding space. Since 1991 he has been working on engravings in the Tristan Barbara workshops in Barcelona. He participated at the Stone Sculpture Simposium, Évora, and in the International Stone Scupture Simposium, Oporto, 1985. Group shows (selection) 1981 Ommagio à Giulieta, Sant'Ambrogio Fair, Verona, Italy, 1984 Le XXème au Portugal, Brussels, 1985 Arquipélago, SNBA, Lisbon, III Fine Arts Exhibition, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; 1986 Pontevedra Biennale, VIII Zamora Biennale, Zamora Acquisition Award; 1987 Casa de Serralves, Oporto, 1987-88 70-80 Art in Portugal, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, USA, 1987 Monumenta, Museu Middelheim, Bélgica, XIX São Paulo Biennale, Brazil; 1988 I.G.I., New York, Lisbonne Aujourd'hui, Toulon Museum, France, 1989 Art London, London, Portuguese Sculpture in Stone, Bologna, Italy; 1990 Ultima Frontera, Centre de Arte de Santa Mónica, Barcelona, 1991 Tríptico, Museum van Heden daagse Kunst, Gand, Belgium.
Exhibitions
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
Desenho e Escultura de José Pedro Croft Museu da Cidade, Portugal 01-01-1999 ~ 31-12-1999
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo, Novas Aquisições, 2000 Published by Arte Ibérica
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
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