Automotive paint on polyester resin, 3m high
“Your Eyes” is part of the Ellipse series (which began in 2000) showing how a particular geometric shape that links the question of the body and the eye in particular, is able to act on the environment in which it is embedded. These ellipses have a shiny, reflective surface that captures and reflects the surrounding landscape, creating a hole and cutting through it as a passageway in the landscape. This work establishes a dynamic relationship with the location, sometimes borrowing images from the surrounding landscape, sometimes reflecting unexpected views. The presence of the audience completes the work, as the shapes produced by the geometric form are continually redrawn by the viewer and their visual perception of the work. The shape is also how our eyes see the world, a cone of vision, the ellipse is, for Arthur, the place where reality meets fiction.
Artur Lescher
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 1962
He currently lives and works in São Paulo
Artur Lescher stands out in the current panorama of contemporary Brazilian art for his three-dimensional works. For over thirty years he has been presenting the results of research on the articulation between matter, form, and thought. These works go beyond the nature of sculpture and intersect the languages of installation and object, to modify the understanding of these and the space in which they are inserted. Lescher suggests narratives, sometimes contradictory or provocative, that make way for myth and imagination.
