Bruno Cidra
The point of departure of BRUNO CIDRA’s (Lisbon, 1982) work is the synthesis between Sculpture and Drawing. His metal (iron, bronze, among others) and paper sculptures explore the tension and dialogue between the opposing materialities and the specific values attached to each field, such as resistance and fragility, weight and weightlessness, permanence and transience. Taking the exhibition space as a compositional space, Bruno Cidra’s sculpture draws new paths, rhythms and framings, new axis and visual references, areas of concentration and dispersion, constantly inviting the viewer to a readjustment of his relation with space.
The following exhibitions can be highlighted: Heavy Stone (Mosteiro de São Martinho de Tibães – Casa do Volfrâmio, Braga, Portugal 2024), Let not the clouds cover the sun (Consultório Project Room, Chamusca, Portugal)Lunch Inside the Horse’s Belly (Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2023), Uprooting (Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2022), Tutorar (Estufa Fria de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2021), Passar pelas mãos (Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2019), O cinzeiro e outros objectos brancos (O Armário, Lisbon, 2018), Mexicano (Galeria Baginski; Lisbon, 2016), Zinabre Azebre Azinhavre (A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto, 2016), Cortina (Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, 2015), Conversations: Recent Portuguese Art in the Serralves Collection (Museu de Serralves, Porto, 2016); Sala dos Gessos (Fundação EDP, Lisbon, 2016), Canal Caveira (Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2015-16), Drawing the World (Est Art Fair 14, Estoril 2014), Crystal Frontier (enBlanco Projektraum, Berlin, 2012), Como proteger-se do tigre (XVI Bienal de Cerveira, Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2011), Prémio EDP Novos Artistas (Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon, 2009) and Afterthought (Irmaveplab, Reims, France, 2008). Cidra completed two artistic residences in São Paulo, Brazil: the first one in 2013, in Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), through a grant awarded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and in 2017 in Pivô. In 2009 was selected for the EDP New Artists Prize (Museu da Electridade, Lisbon), having won in 2005 the D. Fernando II Sculpture Prize (Sintra).
His work is represented in several public and private collections, such as the CIFO- Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation; Modern Collection – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Serralves Collection; Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection – CACE; FAAP Collection; Fundação Carmona e Costa Foundation; António Cachola Collection – MACE; EDP/MAAT Art Collection; Teixeira de Freitas Collection; Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection – Quarter of Contemporary Art of Abrantes; Ar.Co – Contemporary Art Collection; EGEAC/CML Collection, among others.

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2024
Mixed media on paper
58 x 62 x 16 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2024
Mixed media on paper
53 x 33 x 16 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2024
Mixed media on paper
58 x 70 x 16 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Mask
2024
Mixed media on paper
47 x 26 x 11 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2024
Mixed media on paper
45 x 60 x 12 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2024
Mixed media on paper
77 x 66 x 10 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Brâncusi’s Ashtray
2024
Mixed media on paper
221 x 144 x 14 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2024
Mixed media on paper
58 x 40 x 11 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Lunch Inside the Horse’s Belly, 2023
Exhibition view

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2023
Mixed media on paper
46 x 33 x 2,5 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2023
Mixed media on paper
50 x 63 x 2 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2023
Mixed media on paper
192 x 125 x 5 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2022
Iron and paper
75 x 90 x 37 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Uprooting, 2022
Exhibition view

BRUNO CIDRA
Agaves
2021
Iron and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #2
2021
Iron and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
Agaves
2021
Iron and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #2
2021
Iron and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
Tutorar #2
2021
Iron and paper
32 x 18 x 2 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Tutorar #3
2021
Iron and paper
32 x 18 x 2 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
PASSAR PELAS MÃOS
Exhibition view
2019

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #1
2019
Bronze and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
PASSAR PELAS MÃOS
2019
Variable dimensions
Bronze and paper

BRUNO CIDRA
PASSAR PELAS MÃOS (detail)
2019
Variable dimensions
Bronze and paper

BRUNO CIDRA
PASSAR PELAS MÃOS
Exhibition view
2019

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #1
2020
Brass and paper
130 x 200 x 25 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #3
2020
Brass and paper
140 x 230 x 10 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Papier mâché on copper
22 x 41 x 2,5 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Papier mâché on copper
21 x 30 x 2 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Papier mâché on copper
37 x 19 x 3 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Papier mâché on copper
45 x 20 x 2,5 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #10
2019
Bronze and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2016
Rust and oxidation of bronze on paper and rope
40 x 18 x 15 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled #3
2020
Papier mâché on copper
50 x 20 x 11 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Papier mâché on copper
50 x 20 x 8 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Bronze and paper
Variable dimensions

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2017
Iron, papel and elastic
18 x 11 x 7 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Bronze and paper
220 x 2 x 2 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2019
Bronze and paper
72,5 x 124 x 20 cm

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2015
Iron and paper
230 x 400 x 170 cm
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Collection

BRUNO CIDRA
PASSAR PELAS MÃOS
Exhibition view
Galeria Bruno Múrias, 2019

BRUNO CIDRA
Untitled
2018
Iron and paper
Variable dimensions
EGEAC – Lisbon City Hall Art Collection

BRUNO CIDRA
Cortina
2015
Exhibition view
Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon