Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic In the hip S\u00e3o Paulo district of Pinheiros, there was one specific street that artist Lucas Arruda had in mind for his home. So much so that he would walk through this quiet and leafy corner of the Brazilian city every day, keeping an eye out for \u201cfor sale\u201d signs. When he was away, he asked his studio assistant, Juliana, to keep up the vigil. \u201cThen one day when I was in Paris she called to tell me about a house,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI came straight back to Brazil and just fell in love with it.\u201d\u00a0Arruda describes the 1950s building as \u201ca Modernist house, not designed by an important architect, but someone, for sure, who had a good vision\u201d. For the 41-year-old artist, who has just opened a show at Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s mid-century architecture is a passion. He highlights designs by architects from the Escola Paulista de Arquitetura (S\u00e3o Paulo School), such as Vilanova Artigas and Paulo Mendes da Rocha, in the neighbourhood of Higien\u00f3polis; the 1950 cantilevered Glass House of Lina Bo Bardi is a favourite. But everyday properties from this era, he says, \u201care becoming more and more rare. Little by little, they are disappearing, so it\u2019s quite special to have found a house from that time. There are lots of details I love \u2014 the glass tiles, the terrazzo.\u201dSince moving here five years ago, Arruda has created a place of retreat for himself and Una \u2014 the stray dog he found in Sert\u00e3o do Una, an area of rainforest in the north of S\u00e3o Paulo state, around the same time as he found the house. \u201cSometimes when I\u2019m here, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m in S\u00e3o Paulo,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s more air; there is less noise.\u201dHe has recreated something of the jungle atmosphere, with lush gardens at both sides of the house and plants creeping over windows and balconiesIt\u2019s a space that in many ways echoes the ethereal paintings he has been creating since the early 2010s: small and intimate oil paintings, often only 30cm wide, infused with light and a sense of calm. Part figurative, part abstract, and wrought in a softly muted palette, they appear to show cloudy skies, moody bodies of water and verdant landscapes. Yet, says Arruda, they are visualisations of emotion and memory.\u00a0\u201cI live in the city, but I don\u2019t paint the city,\u201d he says. \u201cS\u00e3o Paulo is very dynamic, but it\u2019s not a pretty city. You never see the horizon, only the skyline. It\u2019s funny to think, although I will never know the answer, if I was not living here whether I would be painting the same thing.\u201d\u00a0Arruda\u2019s work has been exhibited in S\u00e3o Paulo with Mendes Wood gallery, and in London, Paris and New York with David Zwirner. Last year, his paintings were shown at Daitoku-ji \u014cbai-in, a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. This month they will be the subject of two museum shows in France. At the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Arruda is the first artist from the southern hemisphere to have a solo show. His dreamily atmospheric paintings will hang alongside impressionist masterpieces from the museum\u2019s collection: Monet, Courbet, Pissarro, Sisley. At the Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art in N\u00eemes, a retrospective (opening on April 30) will span painting as well as film and multimedia installation. It\u2019s a series of events that Arruda, dressed in jeans and a white T-shirt, admits to feeling \u201ca bit insecure, a bit nervous, a bit anxious\u201d about.\u00a0\u00a0Arruda grew up in S\u00e3o Paulo, in the bohemian Pinheiros neighbourhood of Vila Madalena. His mother, a history teacher, and his father, a journalist, met through the Workers Party and Arruda was encouraged to be creative from a young age. By the time he was a teenager, he was already painting daily.\u00a0A longtime source of inspiration has been the northern coast of S\u00e3o Paulo state, three hours from the city. \u201cMy father and his husband always had a small house inside the rainforest, close to the beach at Ubatuba,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s there that I get a lot of visual inspiration. I bring sketchbooks, and even canvas and paint; I take in the atmosphere and bring it back to the studio.\u201d\u00a0At home, he has recreated something of the jungle atmosphere, with lush gardens at both sides of the house and plants creeping over windows and balconies. At the front, what was a four-car garage has become an oasis of mostly local Brazilian species: palms, ferns, banana, mango and Cecropia trees. \u201cI think the garden is the most special thing we built; it\u2019s created a more contemplative, meditative environment,\u201d says Arruda. He points to a pau-formiga tree \u2014 \u201cI planted that, and just look how big it is in just five years!\u201d A dense curtain of trepadeira (an abundant native climbing vine), meanwhile, hides the entrance to a home studio \u2014 an adjunct to his main work space in central S\u00e3o Paulo.\u00a0\u201cThe studio of my house is very important because, for me, the best time to work is during the night,\u201d he says. \u201cDuring the day I can work on things in a more mechanical way, but somehow, the creative moments are during the night. My routine is to start painting at 8pm or 9pm, then by midnight, 1am, it\u2019s the best time \u2014 the moment when the painting flows.\u201d\u00a0The house maintains many of its original features \u2014 including wood-panelled walls and a staircase with looping brass banisters. Much of the furniture is also Brazilian mid-century design: the dining table is by Carlo Hauner; there\u2019s a sofa by Joaquim Tenreiro and an armchair by Zanini de Zanine; in a reading nook next to the garden, a low and laid-back lounge chair is the Mole by Sergio Rodrigues \u2014 \u201ca very classical chair in Brazil\u201d.\u00a0In between are more rustic, folk pieces \u2014 benches, objects, paintings and a carranca: \u201ca kind of monster that they had at the front of boats to scare the other monsters in the sea\u201d, says Arruda, of the carved wooden creature. \u201cIt\u2019s a very good one, by a guy called Mestre Guarany, from Bahia. He pays attention to small details like the teeth \u2014 they are so well done.\u201d\u00a0Of the numerous artworks in his home, he adds: \u201cMost of them are Brazilian, most of them are paintings, and most of them are folk art.\u201d They include works by self-taught painters such as Jos\u00e9 Antonio da Silva and J\u00falio Martins \u2014 artists whose naive style is \u201csort of trendy right now\u201d, he says; Brazilian Modernism by the likes of Paulo Pasta and Mira Schendel; and some by friends and those also represented by gallery Mendes Wood, from 64-year-old Solange Pessoa to 27-year-old Paula Siebra.\u00a0\u201cThere are many! I cannot put everything on the walls,\u201d he says of the collection. Some were bought from galleries, others from the city\u2019s flea markets. \u201cThe best market right now is in Bixiga,\u201d says Arruda. \u201cI found this painting there.\u201d He points out a scene of people in procession. \u201cI don\u2019t even know who it\u2019s by but I love it. I love some tacky things, too,\u201d he smiles. \u201cLike this lamp in the shape of a snake \u2014 it came from a bar I had a long time ago.\u201d The city centre Lourdes bar that Arruda ran from 2016 to 2018 hosted underground parties, attracting an arty crowd.\u00a0These days, however, he has another project. When his father sold his rainforest home, Arruda sought out his own place nearby and found a former fisherman\u2019s house near Santiago beach.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s very pretty, a bit crooked \u2014 when it rains, it rains a bit inside too \u2014 but there is a lot of soul in this house,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a very different situation from the jungle, it has a different identity, a different energy, it\u2019s less isolated. But I can spend a day going to the waterfalls \u2014 and the beach is less humid than the jungle, so it\u2019s easier to stay there and work without growing mushrooms on your canvas.\u201dLucas Arruda \u2018Qu\u2019importe le paysage\u2019 is at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay until July 20Find out about our latest stories first \u2014 follow @ft_houseandhome on Instagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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