Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of the most internationally renowned Portuguese artists, with numerous appearances in European museums. Revealed in the 1980s, his work quickly expanded from the field of painting (indifferently abstract or figurative) to that of sculpture and installation, always taking into account the architectural or urban spaces in which it is placed. His creative process is omnivorous in its desire to recover/integrate the signs of urban or rural life, coming from “high” or “low” culture. Starting from debris, rejected fragments, banal and anonymous objects associated in unexpected and effective ways, his aim is to magnify, through grand gestures of discursive imposition, signs of what could be seen as a civilizational decline. Using and benefiting from all the resources guaranteed by the succession of revolutions of modernity, Cabrita Reis insists on the continuity and effectiveness of great pre-modern art, in an arc that takes him from the Renaissance to Romanticism, from an interest in great courtly sculpture and painting (whose masters he frequently cites) to a fascination with the small-scale collecting of Wunderkammer or Cabinets de Curiosités. In the Oval Gallery of MAAT Gallery, Cabrita Reis will present an enormous installation of painting and, along the descending route towards that totalizing and enveloping space, he will show a vast and varied set of small-scale pieces, suites of drawings, sculptures, assemblages and series of other paintings, floral, landscape, figurative. Wednesday to Monday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Technical sheet: Curated by João Pinharanda.