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Artur Lescher

(1962– ) Born in São Paulo. Lives and works in São Paulo.

One of the most important Brazilian artists, Lescher is primarily known for his sculptures. His artworks relate to the surrounding space, either through interferences and disruptions or by suggesting an unknown place, connected — or not — to the physical realm.

Lescher's works have been exhibited worldwide and featured in various art biennials in São Paulo and Latin America. His creations are part of the permanent collections in major museums throughout South and North America. The artist is also renowned for his site-specific urban artworks.

For over thirty years, Lescher has presented a solid body of work as a sculptor, resulting from his research around the articulation and form of materials. In this sense, the artist has engaged in an uninterrupted and precise dialogue with both architectural space and design, which is coupled with his material choices. This dialogue evolves from a solid matrix of metal, stone, wood, felt, salts, brass, and copper, highlighting the strength of his discourse.

Although Lescher's body of work is strongly linked to industrial processes and extreme refinement and rigor, his production is not solely focused on achieving form. It goes beyond that. This contradiction opens space for myth and imagination, essential elements for the construction of Lescher's Minimal Landscape.

The "Grande Marco" — the artwork exhibited at Rosewood São Paulo — stems from the first piece in a series that Lescher created to honor his Uruguayan friend, the artist Marco Maggi (1957-). The 7.40-meter-tall sculptural piece, made of brass, is a suspended artwork attached to the ceiling in a state of delicate balance, creating tension between the environment and the bust of Condessa Filomena Matarazzo.

"The syntax brings forth another discourse beyond the formal aspects of the "Grande Marco," a sculptural work that evokes images of a relationship between the feminine and masculine nature — and how one character relates to the other. This relationship is presented in the piece as a balance. The feminine element envelops the masculine as an atmosphere. "I intended to make this poetic discourse visible."

Represented by the gallery: nararoesler.art/artists/32-artur-lescher

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