Artur Lescher

“Your Eyes”, 2012, 3 meter high, is part of the Elipse series (started in 2000) showing how a certain geometric shape that links the body issue and the eye, in particular, is capable of acting on the environment in which it is inserted. These ellipses have a shiny, reflective surface that captured and reflected the surrounding landscape, creating a hole and cut like a passage in the landscape. This work establishes a dynamic relationship with the place, sometimes borrowing images from the surrounding landscape, sometimes reflecting unexpected views. The presence of the audience completes the work, as the shapes that are produced by the geometric form are continually redrawn by the viewer and their visual perception of the work. The shape is also how our eye sees the world, a cone of vision, the ellipse is for Arthur the place where reality meets fiction. Artur Lescher stands out in the current panorama of Brazilian contemporary art for his three-dimensional works. For over thirty years, he has been presenting the result of research on the articulation between matter, form, and thought. These are works that go beyond the character of sculpture and cross the languages ​​of the installation and the object, to modify the understanding of these and the space in which they are inserted. Lescher suggests narratives, sometimes contradictory or provocative, that make room for myth and imagination. Born in 1962 in São Paulo where he lives and works.