Arthur Omar

Arthur Omar

Arthur Omar (born 1948) is a Brazilian contemporary artist. Omar is a video artist, photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist.

Omar works with cinema, video, photographic installations, music, poetry, and drawing. He also writes essays and theoretical reflections on the process of creation and the nature of images. Themes such as aesthetic ecstasy, sensory and social violence, and the creation of visual metaphors characterize his work.

In 1999, Omar was the subject of a complete retrospective of films and videos at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2001, additional retrospectives took place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.

In the 1997 edition of the São Paulo Bienal, Omar presented "Anthropology of the Glorious Face", a panel consisting of 99 large-format black-and-white photographs. The series was part of a study on faces and photographic ecstasy as a transcendental dimension. It is considered a classic moment of Brazilian photography Fact|date=February 2007. Some of these images are the origin of the current color series "The Mechanical Skin".

In 2001, Omar received awards given by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte for two exhibitions: The Splendor of Opposites, a series of landscape photographs of the Amazon in which he reinvents space and light, working with 3D effects and "Fractions of Light", a series of lightboxes exploring the serial quality and "internal" luminosity of images from different supports.

Omar was also spotlighted in the Bienal de São Paulo 2002 with the series "Journey to Afghanistan", a selection of 30 large-size photographs composing paradoxical landscapes and impossible perspectives in which the images, captured in the catastrophe zone between Kabul and Banyan, deconstruct the journalistic gaze and point to a post-contemporary realism.

Omar's contemporary video production uses an extremely sophisticated language with the creation of visual metaphors and unexpected relations between images and sounds.

He published the photo albums "Antropologia da face gloriosa" ("Anthropology of the glorious face"), "Zen and the Glorious Art of Photography", and "The Splendor of Opposites". "The Logic of Ecstasy" is the reference book for his work in film and video.Fact|date=February 2007

External links

* [http://www.museuvirtual.com.br/targets/galleries/targets/mvab/targets/arthuromar/languages/portuguese/html/index.html Arthur Omar's website]


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