Artur Lescher

Artur Lescher’s sculptures have always sought spatial situations where they intend to pass unnoticed as subtle interventions. His preference is for one-piece objects, suspended and subject to the force of gravity, creating a tension and relation between the work and the space around it. Using different materials such as metal, stone, wood, brass and copper, he evokes familiar volumes and designs but removed of their usual function.

Lescher gained recognition after participating in the 19th Bienal de São Paulo in 1987, in which he presented Aerólitos, a work consisting of two 11-meter-long balloons, one in the biennial pavilion and the other in an external area, which converse with one another. In 2002, he created Indoor Landscape for the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, comprising two regular-shaped modules set on the floor, one made of wood and the other made of tarpaulin and water, which create a space of attrition inside the building designed by Oscar Niemeyer. In 2013, Lescher participated of projeto Octógono with Inabsência, an enormous dome descending from the atrium’s ceiling, which dialogued with the initial Project of Ramos de Azevedo, architect of the building constructed in 1905.

Artur Lescher participated in the 1987 and 2002 editions of the Bienal de São Paulo and in the 2005 Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre. He has had solo exhibitions at Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa in Mexico City,  MALBA in Buenos Aires, Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo, among other institutions. His work has been included in group exhibitions at venues such as Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany, and CAPC Musée in Bordeaux.

Courtesy of Carbono Galeria