Pedro Amaro

I am a painter from Lisbon, residing in Berlin. My my practice has always been somewhere in-between painting and architecture. For the past years I have been especially dedicated to painting, reaching a level of unity that I always have been striving for. Studying architecture taught me how to paint in a different way. Instead of seating in front of an easel with me and my mind, I wander around my studio collecting information and clues about something a could build. Like a construction, I try to find a structure that binds all those fragments together. It starts usually with a piece of paper, often an already existing, unfinished draw or collage stumbled upon. Parts of one work are cut and added on another. Therefore, there is no original format or orientation to dictate any conditions. If something is incomplete, I glue in additional surfaces. So the painting grows as more and more elements are added. It is hard to know how big the next piece is going to become. Then, I found that horizontal compositions make the eyes to better wander across the surfaces and to notice the chain of different materials.

07-08.2018 solo exhibition in ORI galerie, Berlin 02.2018 Live painting in the exhibition VERAMUSEMENT in FRUITMARKET GALLERY, Edinburgh 01.2018 live painting performance, in collaboration with Linea in Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM, Berlin 10.2017 audio-visual Performance, in collaboration with Linea in DIE WIESENBURG, Berlin 10.2015 Visual Arts Contest Finalist INATEL 2015

09.2006 - 06.2009 Visual Arts Padre Alberto Neto School - Lisbon 09.2009 - 11.2014 Architecture Master, at ISCTE Lisbon University Institute thesis: The Visual Arts, As Architecture