Pedro Barateiro presents a sequence of installations
that include “staged” sculptures, found objects,
photographs, drawings, paintings and films that
encompass the five connected galleries on the
ground floor of the Kunsthalle Basel until 14 November 2010.
Barateiro’s multifarious practice can be situated
within a contemporary mode of post-studio
production that is neither bound to one medium nor
limited to any particular type of skilled object-
making. Instead, the Lisbon-based artist primarily
works with existing popular images, documents,
literary texts, found objects and artworks gleaned
from a diverse range of contexts. Barateiro’s
practice is driven by a critical “re-reading” of those
cultural and historical texts that play a major role
in determining our perception of reality. Rather
than mirroring or otherwise directly responding to
lived experience, Barateiro relays highly coded and
fragmented statements, mediated by complex
visual signs that possess the quality of things
remembered from dreams, while simultaneously
relating to specific referents.
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Images:
The Mask of the Hunter, 2010
Courtesy the artist
Amanhã não nasce ninguém, 2009, 16mm
b&w film transferred to DVD, viroc, rear projection
screen, poster, edition of 450, 190 x 110 x 450 cm.
Sound composion by Manuel Mota.
View of the installation of the exhibition 'Amanhã
não nasce ninguém' in Ezpazo Anexo, MARCO,
Vigo, 2009.
Foto: MARCO/ Borja Bernández Armada
Summa Cavea, 2010, viroc, wood, two
chairs, acrylic paint, 86 x 260 x 125 cm
Pedro Barateiro – Theatre of Hunters
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- Angelique Campens
- 18 September 2010