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José Damasceno

Photo: Ana Pigosso

1968, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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José Damasceno uses a large variety of materials, techniques and mediums to investigate the limits of sculpture. Damasceno’s poetics departs from dislocation and estrangement to conceive fluid and shifting perspectives of space representation. The artist enhances and transforms these spaces by adding improbable objects and happenings. His research involves matters of surface and depth, of solidity and gravity, producing a physical, experiential sensation in the viewer through their contact with the work. For the art critic Ligia Canongia, the artist’s main point of interest is the field of mental associations, which can be established between the idea and the possibility of formal constitution of an object

He has held solo exhibitions at Millan, São Paulo, in 2023; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, in 2021; Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, 2015; Holborn Library, London, UK and Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2014; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain in 2008, among others.

He represented Brazil at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and 2007, as well as, in 2006,  participated in the Sydney Biennale, Australia; Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, 2003; and the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, 2002. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA, 2017; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 2014; Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2009; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2004; Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2001; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2000, among others

His work is featured in permanent collections such as the Tate, London; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; Daros Latinoamerica AG, Zurich, Switzerland; Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; and the MoMA, New York, USA.

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