BACKWhen We’re Gone, text by Scandale project, pal project, Paris, France
Artists
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1989 Pedro Matos lives and works in Lisbon. He studied at Central Saint Martins University of Arts (London) and AR.CO – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual (Lisbon).
The work of Pedro Matos is rooted in the existing porosity between abstraction and representation, one always on the edge of the other, to invest a contemplative feeling. It is this material from reality, underestimated and neglected, that becomes a relic of the ordinary. Paradoxically, it is not after nature but from the image that the pictorial gesture exceeds the time that flows between the initial fleeting gesture and the image, capturing its already abstract decay. What might seem to be hesitating between the figurative and its opposite resolve itself in a painting with a more metaphysical sentiment.
Public Collections
National Army Museum, London, United Kingdom
Guarda Museum, Guarda, Portugal
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
MARCC Museum, Cascais, Portugal
Bech Risvig Collection, Aarhus, Denmark
EXHIBITIONS
- SOLO SHOWS2020
- 2019
Mindlessness, curated by The Dot Project, PRISME, Paris, France
- 2017
At once familiar and completely alien, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
- 2016
Less Than Objects, Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal
Less Than Objects, Galeria Underdogs, Lisbon, Portugal
- GROUP SHOWS2020
I Hold The Wheel To Let It Go, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Pörtschach am WörtherSee, Austria
Deflatable Aesthetics – Hawaii-Lisbon, Balcony Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2019
Pausa – Basment, Esquina, Lisbon, Portugal
Artist Book Gallery, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal
- 2018
Abstract : Reality, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Reconstructed From Memory, FF Projects, San Pedro, Mexico
BTS (Back to School), Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, Portugal
Stitching The Cracks, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Beneath The Surface, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
Interior Motive(s), MPV Gallery, Den Bosch, Netherlands
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Court, Pescara, Italy
- 2017
Jacana’s frontal shield or frontal as shields are frontal, The Workbench International, Milan, Italy
Selected works from The Bech Risvig Collection, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Danemark
Out of Office, curated by Aujourd’hui – Hawaii-Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2016
Preparations For A Journey, FF Projects, San Pedro, Mexico
Aujourd’hui je dis oui, curated by Aujourd’hui and Domenico de Chirico, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal
Down To Earth, The Dot Project, London, United Kingdom
- 2015
1/81, Museu do Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Coa, Portugal
Just because they don’t do what we do it doesn’t mean it’s wrong, The Gallery Wrong Weather, Porto, Portugal
Where there’s something hiding beneath the surface, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Bid Project, Milan, Italy
(De)Nature, curated by Pauline Foessel, Comporta, Portugal
- 2013
Warrior Saints – National Army Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 2012
Re:Define – The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, United-States
- 2011
Impetus – University of Arizona Museum of Art, Arizona, United-States
Publications
- 2020
“B.T.S. (Back To School)”, Stolen Books, Lisbon
“Underdogs artists – a decade [2010_2020], Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon
- 2018
“Abstract : Reality”, Saatchi Gallery, London
- 2017
“Art Is”, Scandale Project, Paris
- 2016
“Pedro Matos”, Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon
- 2015
“1/81”, Museu do Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Côa
- 2012
“Re:Define”, The Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas
“Heritage”, Ivory&Black Editions, London
“Verantwortung für die Stadt Beiträge für ein neues Miteinander”, B&S, Berlin
- 2011
Maximiliano Ruiz, “Walls & Frames”, Gestalten, Berlin
