Past Events
JOSÉ PATRĺCIO
Connections
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September – 2 October 2008
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Biography
The
exhibition Connections is a window on the work of Brazilian
artist José Patrício taking place in the context of the Pharos
Trust’s Brazilian Culture Month 2008, organized in cooperation
with the Embassy of Brazil in Cyprus. It offers an interesting
example of the novel and unusual way Brazilian art reveals its
constructivist tendencies. He began by making serial geometric
compositions with different elements, finally settling on
dominoes as a medium full of possibilities. It was due to his
interest in modular elements, used in his work at the end of the
90s, that Patrício discovered domino pieces were suitable
elements for compositions of chromatic and graphic structures.
The pieces allow a great versatility for visual and poetic
expression in which, from the universal language of numbers, the
creation of chromatic and graphic situations occur, expressing
virtual and abstract realities.
‘Perhaps from José Patrício we can learn that even the most
rigid mathematical formula is capable of containing its own
expressivity, that even the most abstract arrangement is able to
dialogue with the exuberance of the popular traditions, that
constructivism was never that far from Dada and that the
singular only becomes evident through repetition.’ Painting by
Numbers, Michael Asbury, 2008.
José Patrício’s work explores the relationship between order and
the possibility of its dissolution; his floor installations
reveal the fragility of order which is emphasized by the
imminent possibility of chaos, produced by the slightest
inattention.
Highlights among his solo exhibitions are; the Pinacoteca do
Estado São Paulo, 2008; "Ars Combinatoria", Abbaye de Silvacane,
France, 2005; Ceará Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003; Bahia
Museum of Modern Art, 2002; Paço das Artes, 2002; Paço Imperial,
2001 and the Aloísio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art, 2000. He
also participated in the 22nd São Paulo International Biennial,
1994; III Mercosul Biennial, 2001; Políticas de la Diferencia –
Arte Iberoamericano Fin de Siglo, Recife and Malba, 2001; 8th
Bienal de la Habana, 2003; 28th and 29th Panoramas da Arte
Brasileira, 2003 and 2005; Postcards from Cuba, Norway, 2004;
Discover Brazil, CINÉTICO[S], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía, Madrid and São Paulo, 2007.
José Patrício lives and works in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
where he was born in 1960.
