Pedro Lapa
?My teaching activity covers the period spanning from 1900 to the present in the fields of Art History and Art Theory. I have written essays on Portuguese and international art for several catalogues and volumes, focusing on issues related to avant-garde, neo-avant-garde and contemporary artistic phenomena. I have reflected on art and its critical potential, as well as on its medial configurations and its different conceptions?.
Pedro Lapa is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He was artistic director of the Berardo Collection Museum from 2011 to 2017, director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado from 1998 to 2009 and curator of the Ellipse Foundation. He holds a PhD in Art History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.
He is the author of several publications in the fields of modern and contemporary art, among which André Romão. Fauna (2019), Joaquim Rodrigo, a contínua reinvenção da pintura (2016); História e Interregnum. Três obras de Stan Douglas (2015); Arte Portuguesa do Século XIX (1850-1910); Arte Portuguesa do Século XX (1910-1960), James Coleman (2005).
Lapa organized several exhibitions all over the world, including Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (Pushkin Museum, Moscow), James Coleman (MNAC-MC, Lisbon), Stan Douglas, Interregnum (Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon), as well as the collective exhibitions More Works About Buildings and Food (Hangar K7, Oeiras), Disseminações (Culturgest, Lisbon), Cinco Pintores da Modernidade Portuguesa (Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo). He also curated the Portuguese exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001).
He co-authored in 1999 the first catalogue raisonné published in Portugal, dedicated to the work of Joaquim Rodrigo, and was awarded in 2008 the Grand Prize of the Portuguese Literary Guild for the essay Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, uma arqueologia da modernidade. In 2010 he was also nominated Chevalier de l?Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
E: pedrolapa@letras.ulisboa.pt
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