Jose Bechara

JOSÉ BECHARA

JOSÉ BECHARA

JOSÉ BECHARA, Voada I, 2012, acrílico s/ papel Fabriano acrylic on fabriano paper, 30 x 40 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA, Particular, 2008, Oxidação de aço s/ lona, Steel oxidation on canvas tarp, 80 x 200 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA, Água paraparede 2008, Oxidação de aço e cobre s/ lona, Steel and copper oxidation on canvas tarp, 225 x 250 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA, Perna frontal – da série “Temporária”, 2004, Impressão digital Digital print, 195 x 130 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA, Berço, série Nova, 2004, digital print, 130 x 160 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA, Paramarelo (tríptico) 308 2005, Oxidação de aço s/ lona, Steel oxidation on canvas tarp, 200x 308 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA Sem título 2015, Oxidação de aço e cobre s/ lona, Steel and copper oxidation on canvas tarp,140 x 124 cm cada each

JOSÉ BECHARA, Vista lateral 1 (da série Paisagem doméstica ou Não me lembro do que dissemos ontem), 2002 Lightjet print, 80 x 120 cm, registo fotográfico: Dedina Bernardelli

In his paintings he often buys used materials; coverings of trucks from truck drivers so this material already has the imprints and marks the time has left on them. Later on in the studio he uses the process and leaves the material to set so that the elements of heat and humidity or carbon and steel oxides can act freely and leave a deeper mark.

The House names Bechara´s installation and sculpture project. In this, José explores the concept of shelter and, starting from the familiar notion of housing, strives to establish physical, metaphysical and visual relations about habitat, creating poetic associations that encompass both it José Bechara’s painting is a gesture of aggression but also one of protection – binding tapes – which is ultimately a gesture of time.

Because life, like time, is painting for a Bechara who might subscribe to the thoughts of Berger when he states that all art based on a deep observation of nature ends up modifying one’s way of seeing it. And thus Bechara appropriates different “marks” of time in order to grant them new life, in order to revive them. All of this is maintained in series like Pelada (Skinned), which discovers a surface of white leather that comes from cows, oxen and even foetuses that reveal a texture capable of registering that life full of marks that previously lashed the animal.

Once again life and its random sketches, once again the marks of a violence present in Bechara’s work, although it never completely becomes determining in its poetics. Formally, we note this extrapolation of materials from painting, far from their original functions. On this occasion the ready-made exhibits skins and teats from cows in a rich appropriation that once again reveals a situation of indifference that is repeated in Bechara’s work (that of professional butchers, of the bucolic passivity of the chalets in Paraná, and of the inevitable erosion of things …). Thus José Bechara simply poeticises with the aid of time. “The great aficionados of antiquity restored through pity. Through pity we undo their work. We might have also become accustomed more to the ruins and to the wounds” . Are the results of Bechara’s paintings not aesthetic mutilations? Isn’t time the true agent capable of fracturing the meaning of each work? The need to restore, or rather to re-fabricate, a complete statue starting from limbs that did not originally belong to it is no longer an issue of our time; perhaps we are no longer living in such a vain time, or perhaps this is simply a change in taste. David Barro

JOSÉ BECHARA Blackfull | Díptico G | Cabecinha com faixa vermelha | Díptico P 2006 - 2015, Oxidação de aço s/ lona, Steel oxidation on canvas tarp, 70 x 60 cm

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2005

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2005

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2005

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2008

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2008

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2008

JOSÉ BECHARA views from the exhibition at Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2008

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