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Os Gêmeos: Street Art

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Os Gêmeos (The Twins) are brothers Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, the pair have been painting graffiti since 1987, and their work has been a main influence on street art in Brazil.

Their subjects range from family portraits, to social and political commentary, and Brazilian folklore. As well, their work often features yellow-skinned characters; “When we dream, everything we dream has yellow tones’, Gustavo Pandolfo explains. ‘This is something of ours, myself and my brother. We use it in our painting. We can’t use another colour. We have to use yellow.”

Aside from walls,  Os Gêmeos also paint canvases, make sculptures, and are both graphic designers and photographers. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cuba, Europe as well as numerous exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Latin America.

The brothers’ current exhibition Pra quem mora lá, o céu é lá, (For those who live there, the sky is there’) at The Berardo Museum in Lisbon runs through September 19, 2010.

To see more of Os Gêmeos, OsGemeos.com.br.

Sources: Wikipedia, Tate

Dante Horoiwa: Indoctrination

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Sao Paulo, Brazil artist Dante Horoiwa recently finished up his first U.S. solo exhibition at Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose, California.

Horoiwa’s paintings depict “the spiritually lost and lonely. Through his work, he is able to cope with his want to hide from the world and his need to be a part of it.”

“What I´m trying to express is some kind of ‘invisible insistence,’ invisible forces that are around us, things that lead us to a blindness and a lack of comprehension. It makes us drown all of our intuition and instinct into the things that makes us feel comfortable enough to forget our own imperfections, anesthetizing our existence, our individuality as a being…the invisible insistence that devours our means to grow.”

The 21 year old artist has quickly gained recognition for his work around the world including Brazil, Australia, the Netherlands and California. In 2009, Horoiwa took part in R.U.A – Reflexo on Urban Art – Lines, Colours and Forms of Brazilian Urban Art – a street art exhibition in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

To see more of Dante Horoiwa, visit  Horoiwa.com.

Gabriel Wickbold: Photography

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Gabriel Wickbold is a 25 year old photographer from São Paulo, Brazil. These colourful photographs are from his recent series called “Sexual Colours”.

Wickbold has worked in numerous artistic genres including poetry, music, and he studied television broadcasting. He has no formal education in photography, however Wickbold believes that “photographic technique is so basic that what truly makes the difference is feeling and composition.”

To see more of Wickbold’s work, visit GabrielWickbold.Carbonmade.com.

Sources: Design42day

Dante Horoiwa: Brazilian Street Art

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In the world of street art, Brazilian artists are getting a lot of attention these days and I can see why. Brazil has a vibrant street art scene and it is widely accepted by the public.  The quality of the art has changed the view on “graffiti” and it is no longer seen as vandalism, but as a genuine form of contemporary art.

Dante Horoiwa is a 21 year old artist from Sao Paulo who began his career as a commercial illustrator at the age of fifteen. Sao Paulo is considered the centre of street art in Brazil, particularly murals, so it was no surprise when Horoiwa became involved in street art using the name “Musta”.

Horoiwa’s influences include Brazilian culture, philosophy, history and the art of his Japanese heritage.  He is an avid reader of the poetry of Paulo Leminski’s Zen teachings and the Samurai philosophy. This has had a major influence on his work and life.  The subject of loneliness is a predominant theme in Horoiwa’s work which can be seen in the detail and emotion conveyed in all of his paintings.

This summer, Horoiwa is participating in R.U.A – Reflexo on Urban Art – Lines, Colours and Forms of Brazilian Urban Art – a street art exhibition taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The event is sponsored by Caramundo, a non-profit organization that supports local, grass-roots initiatives and projects of young talented people in Latin America.

For more information about Dante Horoiwa, visit his online art journal at Horoiwa.com.

Sources: RUA Festival, No Comply, Horoiwa.com