PEDRO TUDELA
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ABOUT
Pedro Tudela was born in Viseu in 1962 and completed the course in Painting at the Oporto School of Fine Arts - ESBAP in 1987.
Holds a PHD in Arte and Design at FBAUP in 2011. While studying at the ESBAP he co-founded the “Missionário” Group and organised national and international exhibitions artistic exhibitions comprising different areas - painting, mail art and performances. Pedro was the author and presenter of the following radio programmes - “Choose a Finger” and “Reduced Atmosphere” on the XFM radio station between 1995 and 1996.
In 1992, on the occasion of the “Mute... life” exhibition he founds the collective Multimedia Mute Life Dept. (MLd). He is also the Co-founder and one of the members of the electronic music project @c and the Media Label Crónica.
He is Assistant Professor at the Oporto Fine Arts Faculty since 1999 and regularly exhibits in Portugal and abroad. He lives and works in Oporto.
Pedro Tudela’s oeuvre seeks the observer's reaction when he comes into direct contact with the sound and image, thereby suggesting a strategy of organised creation in a system that is open to critical questioning. His random method of construction is based upon a process of trial, error and deviation.
Operating in a multifaceted space, in which everything is reversible, since every starting point may also be an arrival point, Pedro Tudela approaches sound as a plastic material -as a medium of expression.
Exposing objects to multiple sound-musical ambiences that penetrate and alter their comprehension, encourages displacement of the centre of visual gravity to more abstract and variable zones of understanding. He stresses the rupture, the epistemological break, caused by contact between the sound element and the morphology of the object, avoiding stereotypes, fixation of a work in an absolute and definitive form. He uses strategies of disruption regarding the linearity and continuity of the relationship between the image and the word in visual space, inserting a new code of interpretation within the visual space.
With a consolidated career, Pedro Tudela maintains an activity that crosses disciplines such as painting, drawing, sculpture, artistic installation and photography. Moreover, his intervention in the sound sphere not only signals him as a pioneer in the way he treats it, as an element not exclusively illustrative or adjacent to his sculptural or installation practice, but as an entity that can gain its own thickness and determine conditions of materialisation.
