Pedro Tropa

The work of Pedro Tropa talks above all about landscape and is intimately related with the experience of the mountain. Its origins are experiences in altitude, including exercises of hiking, climbing, and confrontation with the terrain hardness and with the air rarefaction in places like Himalayas, Alps, Galayos or Monte Rosa.

Beginning his artistic activity in the early 90s creating video films, Pedro Tropa has focused over time in photography. More recently, also appears the drawing. Photography and drawing participate in his journeys and emerge from the necessity of fixing moments: a glimpse of something between the fog and a change in weather.

Two moments coexist in the work process of the artist. First, the moment of experiencing the mountain, perceived as a preparation for drawing and for photography. And the time of the drawing, now in the studio, a process in which memory intervenes.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2023 — Itenerário e Transmissão, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 2020 — Mercado, (with Teresa Santos), Appleton, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2014 — João Botelho: I would only believe in a god who could dance, Plataforma das Artes e Criatividade \ Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Portugal
  • 2021 — Triângulo, Brotéria, Lisboa, Portugal
  • 2006 — O Veado, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2011 — Hou Negro, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2013 — Figure of Collapse, Parkour, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2015 — Do we dream every night?, Appleton Square, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2016 — Edição Especial, CAVE Atelier, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2019 — Invasor Abstracto, a project osso colectivo, Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2021 — Flora, Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2020 — A Ilha de Calipso, Appleton, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007 — Mnemósina, Convocação (Modo Maior e Modo Menor) - Obras de Fernando Calhau na Colecção da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2012 — shapes and forces, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2009 — Travessia. Evidência. O Monte Rosa, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2008 — Pela boca do Noitibó, Sala da Rua Rosa Araújo 19, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2014 — Singbarer Echo, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2015 — Os Inquéritos [à fotografia e ao território] - Paisagem e Povoamento, Plataforma das Artes e da Criatividade, Guimarães, Portugal
  • 2016 — Inquéritos ao Território. Paisagem e Povoamento, Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2019 — Sonic Geometry - 3rd cycle, Arquiélago - Contemporary Arts Centre, Ribeira Grande, Azores, Portugal
  • 2012 — Movente e Dormente, Appleton Square, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2009 — Cahier de Cent Dessins, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2008 — Avenida 211, Avenida da Liberdade 211, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007 — Desenhos e Fotografias, Livraria Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2016 — Paraíso, Galeria IPT, Centro de Arte e Imagem, Tomar, Portugal
  • 2012 — Obras do ARCO, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal

Awards

  • 2021 — FLAD Drawing Award 2021

Collections

  • , Ar.Co, Portugal

Works

Photograph, 2012

Silver gelatin print on barite paper

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