Galeria Nuno Centeno will open a new series of exhibitions featuring four distinct yet complementary projects within the contemporary art scene. Titled pas de titre by Carlos Cobra, Escrita/Paisagem by Francisco Laranjo, Como olhar junto by Luiza Baldan, and Erva, Fio e Pedra by Patrícia Geraldes.
These exhibitions explore different approaches to drawing, landscape, perception, and materiality. They foster a dialogue between generations and contexts, and invite the public on a sensory journey through diverse artistic practices and languages.
Carlos Cobra’s body of work was primarily developed outside of Portugal. He (b. 1940, Alcácer do Sal) first settled in Paris in the early 1960s after a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship. Since the 1980s, painting has been at the heart of his artistic practice after years of sculpting. In pas de titre, the artist presents some of his most recent body of work. These paintings reveal a silent and persistent process, characterised by constant work on the pictorial surface, where images appear to emerge gradually from a meticulous construction process.
He participated in the Paris Biennale in 1967 and was awarded the prestigious Prix Bourdelle in 1981.
Escrita/Paisagem, titled after a 1976 work by the artist Francisco Laranjo (1955-2022), brings together works created between the 1970s and the 2020s. Beyond the different decades, the exhibition spans different scales – from a tiny piece of canvas to a five-meter drawing – and distinct techniques – oil, India ink and watercolor.
Francisco Laranjo was a Professor Emeritus at the Faculdade Belas Artes da Faculdade do Porto (FBAUP), a founder and director of the Socrates/Erasmus Programme and a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Como olhar junto is a project by Brazilian artist Luiza Baldan developed on Cova do Vapor beach, at the meeting point between the Tagus River and the Portuguese Atlantic Ocean. Baldan hosted gatherings at the Vapor Library, a cultural community space run by locals. This process resulted in a an artist’s book (Fotô Editorial), that brings together a choral text, archival images, photographs by the artist, documentation of the activities, and a video co-directed with Patricia Black, built from two beach performances with the participation of the community.
At the The Cave Project Space, Patrícia Geraldes presents Erva, Fio e Pedra, a collection of works born from collecting and transforming raw natural materials (herbs, textiles and ceramics), exploring processes of repetition, reuse and a kind of artisanal alchemy. Through a profoundly manual and intuitive practice, the artist constructs pieces that simultaneously affirm a poetic and political stance, questioning contemporary modes of production and evoking ideas of self-sufficiency, ancestry and care – a critical reflection on nature, memory and capitalism.
Her work has already been shown at the Alberto Sampaio Museum – Guimarães, Galeria Ocupa – Porto, Portugal and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome – Italy.
The opening is on March 21st of 2026, at 9pm, running until April 25th, 2026.
Galeria Nuno Centeno
Rua da Alegria, 598
4000-037, Porto Portugal
