A retrospective exhibition of Pedro Casqueiro (Lisbon, b.1959) brings together approximately 80 works, all of them paintings, created from the 1980 to 2025.

An artist represented in the EDP Foundation Art Collection, Casqueiro was part of one of the many informal groups of artists who emerged from Lisbon’s Superior School of Fine Arts ESBAL (now FBAUL) during the 1980s. His painting stood out for their vibrant colours, compositional boldness, refusal to distinguish between non-figuration and figuration, and the interplay between the painted image and the written word. They were also marked by 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.

Accessibility

A small part of this exhibition is not accessible to persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

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