The life and work of artists Gustavo and Ottavio Pandolfo, OSGEMEOS, is the subject of the catalog launched by the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) and available at MON Loja. The exhibition “OSGEMEOS: Secrets” is currently on display at the Museum.
Over 200 pages, the catalog, in addition to the duo’s artistic path, presents details of their history, testimonies from specialists in their work, interviews with artists and dozens of photos of their most important works scattered around the world.
The exhibition was carried out by MON, an original production of São Paulo Pinacoteca. In Curitiba, it was presented by Coble, made available by the Paraná State Government and collecting more than 850 items, including paintings, immersive acoustic installations, sculptures, and interventions. specific locationDrawings and notebooks. The tower and exhibition hall occupies Olho Business.
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The artist duo formed by brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo (São Paulo, 1974) built a path in the art world without losing sight of the desire to remain accessible to the general public.
This path includes participation in exhibitions at major international institutions, such as hamburger bahnhof, In Berlin, in 2019, with a project designed in partnership with the Berlin Group break dance Flying Steps – one of the most awarded worldwide; The Vancouver Biennale, Canada (2014); NS MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles (2011); NS MOT – Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan (2008) and Tate Modern, in London, UK (2008), where the artists painted the facade, and Milan Triennale (2006), among others. Throughout their career, the brothers have also received invitations to create major public spaces in more than 60 countries, including Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Australia, Cuba and the United States – with a focus on electronic screens from Times Square, in New York (2015) – among others.
Gustavo and Otávio have always taken the urban space as a place of experiment and research since the beginning of their production, in the mid-1980s. Artists started from strong immersion in culture Hip Hop, which arrived in Brazil when the brothers began producing, influenced dance, music, mural and popular culture to develop a unique style, with a happy atmosphere, which ended up becoming a symbol of the urban spaces of Brazil and of the people. Globalism.
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The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) is a state heritage associated with the Paraná State Secretariat for Social Communication and Culture. The institution houses important references for national and international art production in the fields of visual arts, architecture and design, as well as great Asian and African collections. In total, the collection includes more than 9,000 objects, housed in more than 35,000 square meters of built-up area, with 17,000 square meters of exhibition space, making Moon the largest art museum in Latin America. The main sponsors of the Foundation, companies that believe in the transformative role of art and culture, are: Copel, Sanepar, Grupo Volvo América Latina, Vivo, Grupo Focus and Moinho Anaconda.
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OSGEMEOS Catalog
Available in the MON . store
Value: 90 BRL
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