JOSÉ PATRÍCIO

Employing various materials, such as darts, buttons and nails, the artist removes the traditional usage of these materials and reassembles them in a new order that results in unexpected formal compositions. Influenced by the geometric and concrete art movements in Brazil (heralded by Almir Mavignier), his works emphasize the fragile relation between order and the possibility of its dissolution, suggesting that even the most rigid mathematical formula has the potential of containing its own expressivity.

José Patrício was born in 1960 in Recife, where he lives and works. He featured in biennials such as the 22^nd São Paulo Biennial (1994) and the 3^rd Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, in Porto Alegre (2001), both in Brazil; and the 8^th Havana Biennial, in Cuba (2003). His work is included in the collections of Fondation Cartier pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro / Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; among others.

Text courtesy Galeria Nara Roesler.