Joaquim Tenreiro
H 242 cm x W 40 cm x D 40 cm
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By the late 1960s, Joaquim Tenreiro began shifting his focus from design to art, returning to the studio practice that had always accompanied his career. In these works, which he called sculpaintings, he explored abstraction and geometry through the tactile language of craft, translating his modernist sensibility into pure form.
This iron sculpture stands 242 cm tall, rising from a square base that bears the artist’s signature. Composed of interlocking circular forms, it reveals Tenreiro’s mastery of balance and proportion. The repetition of curved lines — also present in many of his dining chairs — creates a rhythmic vertical movement, at once solid and weightless, where light animates the open structure. The work captures the essence of Tenreiro’s vision: the union of material precision and poetic modernity.