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artur lescher and milton machado
cross-cuts | nara roesler ny | february 02 – 06
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Milton Machado
Desenho manco com alguma dificuldade para seguir adiante (observado por peixes), 2018
Indian ink on paper
70 x 100 cm / 27.6 x 39.4 in
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Milton Machado
Pilha, 2009
stacked steel chest of drawers
340 x 40 x 228 cm / 133.9 x 15.7 x 89.8 in
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Artur Lescher
Rio Léthê # 08, 2018
cumaru wood and felt
259 x 113 x 17 cm / 102 x 44.5 x 6.7 in
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Artur Lescher
Wall river, 2019
stainless steel
250 x 230 x 27 cm / 98.4 x 90.6 x 10.6 in
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ARTUR LESCHER
b. in 1962, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
lives and works in São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Artur Lescher stands out in the contemporary Brazilian art scene with his three-dimensional work. His pieces transcend their sculptural character, crossbreeding the boundaries of installations and objects to modify the understanding of these categories and the space in which they insert themselves. The fundamental elements of his discourse artist relies in the particular, uninterrupted and precise dialogue with both architecture and design, and on his choice of materials, which can be metal, stone, wood, felt, salts, brass and copper.
Even if Lescher's work is strongly linked to industrial processes, achieving extreme refinement and rigor, his production does not have the form as the only purpose, actually, it goes beyond it. By juxtaposing solid geometrical structures and materials with characteristics of impermanence or changeability, such as water, olive oil, and salt, Lescher emphasizes imponderability. Or “the restlessness,” as the critic and curator Agnaldo Farias remarked in relation to “his pieces, which oppose an exact, clean appearance transmit a sense of inquietude, as if we, the spectators, were in the imminence of watching the irruption of something, (…) which could transform into violence, into the clashing of materials, in the deformation of a body, the traces of an action that is already finished.” This contradiction opens space for myth and imagination, essential elements for the construction process.
Born in 1962 in São Paulo where Artur Lescher still lives and works. Some of his latest solo shows include: Artur Lescher: suspensão, at Estação Pinacoteca (2019), in São Paulo, Brazil; Asterismos, at Almine Rech Gallery (2019), in Paris, France; Porticus, at Palais d’Iéna (2017), in Paris, France; Inner Landscape, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery (2016), in Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay. Recent group shows include: Tension and Dynamism, at Atchugarry Art Center (2018), in Miami, USA; Mundos transversales – Colección permanente de la Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, at Fundación Pablo Atchugarry (2017), in Maldonado, Uruguay; Everything you are I am not: Latin American Contemporary Art from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, at Mana Contemporary (2016), in Jersey, USA; El círculo caminaba tranquilo, at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA) (2014), in Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Circle Walked Casually, at Deutsche Bank KunstHalle (2013), in Berlin, Germany. His works are included in major public collections such as those of the: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), Houston, USA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA;Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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MILTON MACHADO
b. in 1947, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Milton Machado began his career as an artist during the Brazilian military dictatorship, when he made drawings based on his background in architecture, creating pieces that seemed logical at first sight, but were in fact subtly irrational and unfeasible. Throughout the following decades, Machado progressively expanded his practice and increased the scale of his production to include objects, sculptures, videos, photography and large installations, all looking at a pivotal theme which explores tensions generated by artworks which challenge and uproot factuality.
In his interventions, Milton Machado seeks to capture and show the viewer surprising and unseen relationships between seemingly unrelated fields— such as industry and art, architecture and image, family and politics etc. with an undertone of irony and disillusion. For thirty years, the artist has been developing the series História do Futuro, an urban fable that brings together critical theory, architecture and urbanism to approach the dynamic and unpredictable cycles of life and death in a fictional city.
Some of his latest solo shows include: X, at Galeria Nara Roesler (2016), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cabeça, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB-BH) (2015), in Belo Horizonte; at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB-RJ) (2015), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Mão pesada, at Galeria Nara Roesler (2013), in São Paulo, Brazil. Recent group shows include: In Memoriam, at Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro (2017), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Em polvorosa, at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) (2016), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Made in Brasil, at Casa Daros (2015), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Imagine Brazil, at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art (2015), in Montreal, Canada; Where the streets have no name, at CSS Bard and Hessel Museum of Art (2014), in New York, USA. His works are included in major public collections such as those of: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; Museo Civico Gibellina, Gibellina, Italy; Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland; Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
