The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the institution of the Secretary of State for Culture, presents site specific Inabsência Artur Lescher (São Paulo, 1962). For the project Octagon Contemporary Art the artist developed a dome 12m x 14m, using brass and wood, which evokes the history of the building of the Pinacoteca, however, shifted from their original context and devoid of its functions, since it is reversed. Designed by Ramos de Azevedo in 1905, the original design of the building of the Pinacoteca provided a dome that would occupy the center of the building, which now receives works of contemporary art inside the Octagon Project.

When I was invited to exhibit at the Octagon, I researched a lot about the configuration of this space and found that, originally, he would host a summit that was never built. So the idea of ​​this work is to work with the issue of memory and architecture, making visible a project, an idea that was not effective, but still continues to operate in space. About the show title, Lescher said: Inabsência is a neologism from the complete absence anachronism [absence] to denote the absence of the absence, or presence of what was missing, or something that introduces the absence. It is a word constructed with two negations (In) and (A), this results in a double negative positivity in case a presence. This is one reason for the reversal of the dome.

The São Paulo Artur Lescher stands out in the panorama of contemporary Brazilian art for his three-dimensional works. These are works that exceed the character of sculptures, crossing languages ​​installation and object to modify the understanding of these and space in which they operate.

Lescher gained nationwide recognition from their participation at the 19th Bienal de São Paulo in 1987, where he presented aerolite, and, in 2002, to participate in the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, with Indoor Landscape. Among the more recent group exhibitions include: Incomplete Nature, Cultural Center of Usiminas in Ipatinga, Brazil (2010), and Memorial Revisited - 20 years in Latin America Memorial (2009); Almost Net at Itaú Cultural (2008) and 80 | 90 Modern Postmodern etc., the Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2007), all in São Paulo, Brazil.

Some of his recent solo exhibitions were held at Del Paseo Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay (2012), Meta-metric, the OMR Gallery, Colonia Roma, Mexico (2011), and Rio Machine at Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo , Brazil. It has works in major collections such as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and MAM-SP, both in São Paulo, Brazil, in MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, both in the United States.

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