Artur Lescher’s work represents his constant experimentation with materials, their physical qualities and objectual characteristics. Through his works, the artist makes reference to natural elements which, when impeccably reproduced by means of industrial processes, reveal and, at the same time, deny these very real origins.

Another key component in Lescher’s body of work is architecture, both in synthesis and context. In an abstraction exercise of in-situ installations, the artist adopts the spatial situations of the exhibition space to transform corners, walls and doors into large-scale installations. His works emerge subtly as poetic gestures in space transmitting force and instability, balance and movement, tension and silence. Neutralized, the functionality of the object ceases to exist and the possibilities of interpretation and meaning multiply.

Artur Lescher emerged in the mid-80’s into the Brazilian art scene, influenced by the Neo-Concrete movement of Mira Schendel, Helio Oiticica and Sergio Camargo. Since then he has presented his work in the major museums and institutions of Brazil including: the Sao Paulo Biennale, Biennale MercoSur, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo. He has also exhibited his work in the USA, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Spain and France.

Since the beginning of his practice at the age of twenty-two years old, artist Artur Lescher (b. 1962, São Paulo, Brazil) has worked with geometrical forms and the composition they assume when staged in dialogue in a specific architectonic space. Presenting his third major solo show at OMR gallery entitled Asterismos, Lescher turns the white-cube into a new cosmic space inspired by the idea of 'asterismo,' a place undecipherable by science. Indeed, such a term differs from 'constellation,' mostly in that, while the latter is an officially recognised area of the sky, asterismos do not have officially determined boundaries.

For this occasion, the artist presents a series of pieces specifically conceived for the first floor space of the gallery. The main installation is composed of various geometrical forms; cylinders and cones made of brass, fishing wire and stainless steel are merged into a unique ensemble-they disappear in their singularity to become a new form that is impossible to describe through the lexicon of geometry and architecture. In the same way, asterismos play in a space of the uncertain and incalculable.

In Lescher's words, 'the materials are actors;' he merely listens to their intrinsic energy and lays out a stage for them to express their vocations and potentialities when combined in a dialogue, not only with the space they are posed in, but also when they communicate between each other. Geometrical forms, when put in dialogue as an installation, create a fictional space of a sky. While, indeed, as spectators we pass through them in a terrestrial space like the ground floor of the gallery, their ancestral energy escape the confines of the room to fly until they reach the incommensurability of the sky.

Through the use of geometry, architecture and materials, Artur Lescher does not follow the prescribed objective dictionary of scientific knowledge, but instead reveals its inconsistency by simply re-articulating the elements-like the basic geometrical forms that compose its rigid lexicon. Lescher's main installation gives us tools for making different compositions and implores us not to give for-granted narrations constructed only by conventional disciplines. When we walk through those celestial entities, there is the possibility to make an alternative and fictional discourse to alter reality. A reality that constantly moves, even imperceptibly, like the hanging objects presented in the upper gallery floor where different pendulums create an imaginative forest, one that we can only see if we recombine elements into a new narration from the unstable, the uncertain, and the immeasurable.

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