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=Arthur Omar=

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Degree in anthropology and ethnography, Arthur Omar developed new methods of visual anthropology, both in their epistemological documentary films of the 70s as in his recent books on Amazon and Carnaval, where the scientific quest is accomplished through an intensification of the aesthetic material. He works with film, video, photo installations, music, poetry, design, and testing and theoretical reflections on the nature of creation and processode image. In all fields, Arthur Omar has introduced new ways of thinking, and radical contributions to the renewal of languages ​​and techniques. Topics such as the aesthetic ecstasy, sensory and social violence and the construction of visual metaphors characterize his work, always in search of a new iconography of Brazilian reality. Experimental documentary, photography, video art, fashion, fiction film, and video installations, migrate your images and turn through the media, supports and languages.

In 2005, the year of Brazil in France, presented at the Grand Palais exhibition hall's opening Brésil Indien, with photographs of Amazonian landscapes. The Le Monde's weekly magazine devoted 10 pages from July to his work of the Glorious Face Anthropology, great success in the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, in the same year.

In 1999, he had complete retrospective of his work in film and video at MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in 2001 at CCBB Rio and Sao Paulo. In Sao Paulo Biennial in 1997, presented the photographic installation Anthropology of the Glorious Face panel with 99 black and white photographs in large format, part of a study of the face and photographic ecstasy as a transcendental dimension, now recognized as a series of classic photography Brazil. Some of these images will give rise to color series The Mechanical Skin.

It was featured in the Biennial of Sao Paulo in 2002 with Journey to Afghanistan, set of 30 large-size photographs composing landscapes paradoxical and impossible perspectives which the images of catastrophe in the area between Kabul and Bamyan, deconstruct the journalistic gaze, pointing to a realism post-contemporary.

In 2001 he won two solo exhibitions by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics: The Splendor of Opposites (Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Sao Paulo), a series of landscape photographs of the Amazon in which he reinvents space and light and works with 3D effects and Fractions of Light (Galeria Nara Roesler) series of light boxes in exploring the serial and "internal" luminosity of images from different media.His contemporary video production brings an extremely sophisticated language, with the creation of visual metaphors and inusidadas relations between images and sounds (Acts Diamond, Panic Subtle, The Logic of Ecstasy and Olonga film video Dreams and Ghost Stories, with ramifications in the field of video-installations, for which he developed his own language of sensory impact and marked by the immersion of the viewer (Hell, Flow).

He published the photographs of the Glorious Face Anthropology, The Glorious Zen and the Art of Photography, and The Splendor of Opposites. The Logic of Ecstasy is the reference book on his work in film and video. Participates in art shows in and outside Brazil: Bienal de Valencia 2000, Mercosul Biennial 1999, Havana Biennial in 2000, Babel-Museum of Contemporary Art of Korea 2002, ARC 2000 and 2003, Foto Arte Brasilia 2003 and 2003 LisboaPhoto where he held the whole of Portugal Pavilion of Expo with a major retrospective of his photographs in black and white. In September 2003 show at Galeria Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo explosively colored his series entitled The Face Skin Mechanics, introducing new processing techniques on display digital.Apresentou inauguration of the Centro Cultural Telemar (now Hi Future) Dervixxx installation with images of dervishes in a slum in Kabul, the impact of large public, and deep immersion. A new version of this paper was presented at VideoBrasil 2007, with projections circular, and welcomed by the French critic Jean-Paul Fargier as a major work of contemporary video. Dervixxx was part of a trilogy Cognitive, along with two other facilities: Infinite Soft 1 and Cognitive Science Corps Gloriosos.Em 2006 occupied the entire space of Hi Future, the three floors and windows outside the building, with a set 12 plants interconnected under the title Zooprismas. This exhibition was selected by the newspaper O Globo as the best show of the year in fine arts in Rio de Janeiro.

Participated in special rooms ARCO 2007 Madrid (Madonna with the work, photographs of Afeganisitão) and the Basel Art Fair, also a special project, where he established a dialogue with the seminal work of Abraham Palatinik through his series of light boxes yet unpublished, entitled Supreme Series (homage to Malevich) 