Pedro Casqueiro
Detour
A retrospective exhibition of Pedro Casqueiro (Lisbon, b.1959), at MAAT, brings together approximately 80 works, all of them paintings, created from 1980 to 2024.
An artist represented in the EDP Foundation Art Collection, Casqueiro’s paintings stood out for their vibrant colours, compositional boldness, refusal to distinguish between non-figuration and figuration, the interplay between the painted image and the written word, and a continuous subversion of perspective, hierarchies and materials.
Later, the textures and loosely drawn lines surrounding bold colours gave way to more graphic imagery, with lighter lines outlining soft or muted colours. These created irregular patterns, letters that filled entire surfaces, forming neutral texts or ambiguous phrases, and modernist architectural spaces disrupted by intentional errors. This vast and rich oeuvre maintains a constantly ironic relationship with reality.
Wednesday to Monday, 10 am to 7 pm
Credits:
Curator: João Pinharanda
Location:
De quarta a segunda, das 10h às 19h
