Jose Damasceno
Jose Damasceno is a Brazilian artist who is represented by Thomas Dane in London and by Galeria Fortis Vilaça in São Paulo. We are excited and delighted by our continuing exploration into Damasceno's oeuvre. Our two works on paper by Damasceno re-create the disorientation by using found images, throwing proportion into disarray.
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz, Lodeveans Collection
Jose Damasceno's drolly hermetic installations seem to be working out a poetics of accumulation. Commonplace objects - hammers, pencils, chess pieces, chalkboard erasers, glass microscope slides - are massed together, forming flowing structures, grids, networks of information. The effect is often disorienting, as the viewer tries to reconcile two different notions of scale at the same time. Puzzling out the implied order in the seemingly chaotic groupings is a bit like exploring another world. As Damasceno himself says of his work: 'There is an unknown system of cause and effect, somewhat frightening yet also seductive.'
Copyright Steven Stern, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
Selected Bibliography
2006 'Jose Damasceno', Anothony Downey, Flash Art International, 248
2006 'Jose Damasceno', Kim Dhillon, frieze, 99
2005 The Experience of Art: Italian Pavilion, Maria de Corral, 51st Venice Biennale
2002 Jose Damasceno, Marcia Fortes, Alexandra Gabriel and Riccardo Sardenberg, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo
1998 Jose Damasceno: Works 1992 - 1998, Adriano Pedrosa, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Brazilian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale
2006 Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro
2006 'Inframarket', Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2004 'Observation Plan', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2002 The Project, New York
Shown by
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz, Lodeveans Collection
Jose Damasceno's drolly hermetic installations seem to be working out a poetics of accumulation. Commonplace objects - hammers, pencils, chess pieces, chalkboard erasers, glass microscope slides - are massed together, forming flowing structures, grids, networks of information. The effect is often disorienting, as the viewer tries to reconcile two different notions of scale at the same time. Puzzling out the implied order in the seemingly chaotic groupings is a bit like exploring another world. As Damasceno himself says of his work: 'There is an unknown system of cause and effect, somewhat frightening yet also seductive.'
Copyright Steven Stern, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
Selected Bibliography
2006 'Jose Damasceno', Anothony Downey, Flash Art International, 248
2006 'Jose Damasceno', Kim Dhillon, frieze, 99
2005 The Experience of Art: Italian Pavilion, Maria de Corral, 51st Venice Biennale
2002 Jose Damasceno, Marcia Fortes, Alexandra Gabriel and Riccardo Sardenberg, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo
1998 Jose Damasceno: Works 1992 - 1998, Adriano Pedrosa, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Brazilian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale
2006 Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro
2006 'Inframarket', Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2004 'Observation Plan', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2002 The Project, New York
Shown by
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
