Artur Lescher (b. 1962, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo.

For more than thirty years, Lescher presents a solid work as a sculptor, which results from a research around the articulation of materials, thoughts and forms. In this sense, the artist has on the particular, uninterrupted and precise dialogue with both architectonic space and design, and on his choice of materials, which can be metal, stone, wood, felt, salts, brass and copper, fundamental elements to highlight the power of this discourse.

Even if Lescher’s work is strongly linked to industrial processes, achieving extreme re nement and rigor, his production does not have the form as the only purpose, actually, it goes beyond it. This contradiction opens space for myth and imagination, essential elements for the construction of his Minimal Landscape.

By choosing names for his artworks, such as Rio Máquina, Metamérico or Inabsência (Projeto Octógono Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2012) Lescher proposes an extension of the work, suggesting a narrative, sometimes contradictory or provocative, that places the spectator in a hiatus, in a suspended condition. Artur Lescher participated in the 1987 and 2002 editions of the Bienal de São Paulo and the 2005 edition of the Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He took part in several exhibitions in Latin America, Europe and in the United States, as well as in two solo shows, the rst one at Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2006), in São Paulo and, more recently, at the Palais d’Iéna (2017), in Paris.