Pedro Falcão was born in Caldas da Rainha in 1971. Between 1991 and 1995 he studied Graphic Arts at the Tomar School of Technology and Fine Arts at the School of Art and Design in Caldas da Rainha.
This education, which unfolded along two intersecting yet diverging paths, has shaped his compelling artistic journey and challenged the notion of authorship in his work in a most fruitful manner.
On the one hand, from very early on, he dedicated himself to painting, explored across different media, and to photography, particularly in black and white. On the other hand, he developed a remarkable body of work in the field of graphic design, a field through which he has become an essential figure in Portugal’s contemporary visual culture.
There are two influences – two paths, not necessarily irreconcilable – that shape his visual work: punk/rock culture (he was a drummer in the bands Tina and the Top Ten and Red Beans, and documented those youthful experiences with camera in hand) and Romantic culture – that spiritual persistence beyond time, embodied in the call of the landscape and the natural world, in a search for the sublime, for the blinding light, for the delicate line where the sea meets the sky (his painting gradually expanded beyond canvas and paper onto other surfaces, such as surfboards, which he has been designing for over a decade).
In the last decade, he has resumed his regular practice of analogue photography, which has resonated deeply with his friends and collaborators. In this field, too, he continues to reconcile the uses of the images he creates: whether as a way of exploring and reframing other artistic worlds or as a profound examination and exploration of the visible. The two photographs he presents in this project are an eloquent example of this endeavour.

Nuno Faria 2025