“Vanitas Venezia - Puzzle”

José Patrício develops visual experiences based on logical numerical combinations. Working with a variety of common materials, such as dominoes, dice, buttons and nails, the artist displaces the conventional use of the element to, using their design and color, create compositions that resemble paintings or have an intense tonal character. Under the influence of important Brazilian artistic trends and movements, such as geometric abstraction and Concretism, the artist highlights the subtle boundary between order and chaos, suggesting that even the most rigid of mathematical formulas has a potential expressive dimension.

He participated in biennials such as: 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (2003); 3rd Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2001); and 22nd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil (1994). His well-known project Ars Combinatoria | 112 dominoes was one of those selected by the Rumos Visual Arts 1999/2000 call for proposals, and was presented in several Brazilian institutions between 2000 and 2004.

His works are in important Brazilian and international institutional collections, such as: Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo, Brazil; Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection – MAM-SP, São Paulo, Brazil; João Sattamini Collection – MAC-Niterói, Niterói/RJ, Brazil; Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France; Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art (MAMAM), Recife, Brazil and Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.