Jose Pedro Croft (1957) - Sin título

Engraving by José Pedro Croft (*).
Technique: Soft-ground etching, drypoint, and electric hammer. The work was created with two plates made with technical collaboration from Tristán and Virgili Barbará.
Museum edition on thick wove Arches cotton paper, with its characteristic watermark.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
Publisher’s dry stamp.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

Support dimensions: 56 x 76 cm
Edition dimensions (plate/image): 56 x 76 cm
Year: 2003
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, and is offered in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

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(*) José Pedro Croft (Porto, 1957) is one of the most prominent figures in European contemporary sculpture, thanks to his investigations into the relationships between space, time, and matter.
His career, rooted in both this medium and drawing, has from the outset been marked by a careful constructive process in which both his formal universe and the individual come into contact. In Croft’s own words, “the interesting thing about my work lies in the nuances and the small differences, not in trying to pigeonhole it within a specific line.” Ultimately, it is an artistic project outside the itinerary fixed by schools and groups.
In line with this conception, his creations are always the fruit of research into the processes triggered inside him, where the visual, plastic, and poetic dimensions of the created objects intertwine, producing a sense of precarious balance between the stable and the unstable, which, for the Portuguese artist, “reflects the transience of the universe.”
His sculptures create complex dialogues with the surrounding environment as well as with their own form and volume through simple, almost minimalist structures that combine both the materiality of the object and its formal aspects. In some cases, these latter are reinforced by the use of bright industrial paints applied so as to suggest a perception of the sculpture as a relief painting. Moreover, Croft uses mirrors and crystals to play with light, shadow, and reflections in order to create new volumes and an altered sense of space. A dialectical tension between fullness and emptiness ultimately appears, which can be translated to his works on paper.
In 2017 he represented Portugal with the installation Medida Incerta at the Venice Biennale.
The artist’s work forms part of international collections such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, or the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and this year he is Portugal’s representative at the Venice Biennale.