José Bechara | Paisagem Doméstica
José Bechara | Paisagem Doméstica
José Bechara | Paisagem Doméstica
José Bechara
From Sep 25 to Nov 10 2006
Presented both in Rio de Janeiro and Miami, this new series is part of A Casa and shown alongside with photos of the project. Produced in different materials, this series has added new directions to the research and work of José Bechara.
Open House is a series of recent works devoted to the sculptural experience in small scale and situated in the field of research his earlier work A Casa. The series is also currentlly on exhibition at the Diana Lowenstein Gallery, in Miami. Photgraphs at two different moments are also on display: at the artists residency at Faxinal do Céu, Paraná (2002), and at his first exhibition in a public institution, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, in 2004 .
Started in 2002, the project A Casa has since then been exhibited in important public institutions in Brazil and Spain. In 2007, the Art Museum of the University of Arizona, in Phoenix, United States, presented a large installation of the project, which is also documented in the book A Casa. About the experience, Bechara says: " From the concept of shelter and the familiar notion of property, A Casa seeks to establish physical, metaphysical, and visual relationships with the habitat, creating poetic connections with the hinterland and the outside of this place."
In various materials, this series adds new directions to the artist's research and artistic course. After his celebrated work in painting, Bechara's work has been developing and expanding, through the project A Casa, a three-dimensional production without walking away from his previous works, which according to the Spanish curator David Clay, "his gaze is, above all, a pictorial look. It is also a humanised, poetic, tense, but above all, I insist, born in the painting as a vital experience."