NYAB Event - Artur Lescher "Metaméricos"

Artur Lescher "Metaméricos"

Josee Bienvenu Gallery

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Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962, where he lives and works, Artur Lescher emerged as a national figure on the Brazilian contemporary art scene with his first participation in the São Paulo Biennial in 1987. Artur
Lescher is known for his sculptural works crossing the boundary between object and installation. His Rio-Maquina (Machine-River) recently shown in São Paolo, is a monumental structure, constructed from three tones of stainless-steel mesh, suspended by metal cylinders. In parallel with his installation, over the past two years Artur Lescher has been developing a new body of work titled Metaméricos. Metamérico is the name given to the geometry of arthropods, whose bodies are composed of repeated segments. Made of wood planks connected by brass hinges, the Metaméricos are modular and versatile, they can adopt various configurations and positions in space.

Constructivism and Suprematism (Malevich, Tatlin...) are important references in Lescher's work, as well as
Brazilian Neo-Concrete artists (Sergio Camargo, Willis de Castro, Mira Schendel, Helio Oiticica...) whose
work proposes a new approach towards the object and its relationship to the viewer and space.

The Metaméricos are made of Peroba do Campo a type of Brazilian wood that was used to make floors and roofs in houses. The artist finds the reclaimed wood planks in demolition stores. Brass and stainless steel are then cast and highly polished to form custom hinges for each articulation. The artist articulates a kind of grammar between the elements at play. The sculptures contract and expand in their own space, generating a highly charged field of possible meanings. In creating a logical model for the construction of his pieces, similar to any language operation, Lescher's works proposes the experience of material and sense contradiction. The Metaméricos evoke the modulation of an insect speech, the possible fluidity of matter, the unfolding operation in which constructivism is based, or three-dimensional sentences on the blank page of the gallery space.