The exhibition "José Bechara: Território Oscilante" at Fundação Iberê Camargo, was curated by Luiz Camillo Osório and took place between October 12th and March 20th, 2020.
"This collection of works by José Bechara exhibited at the Fundação Iberê Camargo does not intend to be a retrospective. There are almost 30 years of his career and this section seeks to account for the determining elements of his poetics, without wanting to exhaust every moment and phase of his work . His training as a painter in the 1980s was soon displaced due to having to move away from paints and solvents. The used truck canvas and oxidation interventions began to define a new pictorial field since the beginning of the 1990s. and quite fertile. The novelty does not concern the materials, but the way in which it appropriates them and mobilizes singular pictorial functions. Attention to the material elements of the world, the experience of time and its forms of inscription on the surface of things, constituted a way of poetic operation that had appropriation as a method and precision as a ruler." - Excerpt from the text by Luiz Camillo Osório
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