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The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the work of
Brazilian artist José Patrício in the context of The Pharos Trust’s
Brazilian Month. The opening will take place on Friday 5 September, 8pm in
the presence of the artist.
The work of José Patrício 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 the creation of chromatic and graphic
situations occur, from the universal language of numbers, 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.
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