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José Pedro Croft

José Pedro Croft was born in 1957 in Porto, having attended from 1976 to 1981 the Painting course at the School of Fine Arts of Lisboa, the city where he lives and works. Trained in painting, during the 1980s he produced mainly stone sculptures, influenced by sculptor João Cutileiro with whom he worked at the time. The pieces then produced, although not entirely figurative, refer to the tradition of funerary sculpture. From the late 1980s onwards, he began to work with plaster and bronze, representing, for example, basic everyday utensils (his bowls are common), associated with small solids. During the 1990s, he definitively stopped working with stone and began to incorporate objects such as tables and chairs into his pieces, and later also using materials such as transparent glass, mirror or bronze.