Os Gêmeos

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Os Gêmeos at the 6th São Paulo Meeting of Hip-Hop Artists (2012)

Os Gêmeos [ ˈuz ˈʒemjus ] ( Portuguese The Twins ) (* 1974 in São Paulo as Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo) are a Brazilian street art duo. The two identical twins are considered to be the most important representatives of this art form in Brazil.

Live and act

Mural on the facade of the Brasil Museum in São Paulo

The hip-hop movement, which is based on black soul and funk music with music, dance and painting , conquered Brazil in the 1980s. Under her influence, the twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo first practiced break dancers before creating their first graffiti around 1987. Since they did not have the money for spray cans , they painted with brushes, cheaper facade paints and wallpaper rollers, in contrast to New York street artists. Portraits were made on freight trains and on the walls of rail tunnels, for example of young people in colorful sweaters. Oversized, yellowish faces and thin limbs became a hallmark of Os Gêmeos.

Otavio Pandolfo is married to the street artist Nina Pandolfo . In joint works by all three artists, they appear as "Os Gêmeos & Nina".

Influences

A chance encounter with the American Barry McGee, who had made a name for himself as a twist in the graffiti scene , took a decisive turn in her work . On a tour through Brazil he showed the twins photos of the trends in the US scene and introduced them to the latest graffiti artists' techniques.

From then on, the brightly colored imaginations of the brothers spread increasingly across the districts of São Paulo: from simple lettering ( tags ) to complicated wall paintings with family portraits, oversized furnished faces, flying fish, musicians, processions and social and political slogans. At the beginning of their work they mainly orientated themselves towards their immediate surroundings and American models, later traditional folk art and mythology from their Brazilian homeland increasingly found their way into their works. Magazines reported on the brothers and promoted them outside of South America.

Career

Mural on a facade in Lisbon

Together with other graffiti artists, they received public contracts from 2000 and officially painted trams, high-rise facades and school buildings in São Paulo and Porto Alegre . Exhibitions followed. A luggage storage facility in San Francisco served as the backdrop for her first public solo exhibition in the United States.

In addition to Banksy and Shepard Fairey , Os Gêmeos are now among the street artists who have made the step into the established art world. Its exhibits found their way into museums and art exhibitions around the world and fetch high prices at auctions by major houses. In their hometown, they are represented by one of the city's finest galleries. Critics compare them to such renowned names as Max Ernst , MC Escher , Walt Disney , Hieronymus Bosch or Dalí .

Os Gêmeos are now represented by the American art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch. Her work is represented in large art collections, including the Reinking Collection.

Work

Removal of a work of art from the Tate Gallery in London
Partial view of the joint work "Mural Av.23 de Maio" in São Paulo (together with Nina Pandolfo and others)

For the Cultura Nova Festival in Heerlen , the Netherlands , they created a 16 × 10 meter high mural. It should be preserved for posterity.

In contrast, a mural they had painted on an outside wall of the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London especially for an exhibition was removed with the help of high-pressure washers after the exhibition ended . Five other murals by other artists were also removed.

A more than 700 square meter mural near Autobahn 23 outside São Paulo, which the twins had created together with other artists, was also almost removed. A company commissioned by the municipal cleaning department had already started to paint over the work of art before the project could be stopped. Officials said it was "an oversight".

In New York they realized a large-scale painting where Keith Haring had previously sprayed colorful figures: at the busy intersection of Bowery and Houston Street . And at Art Basel Miami Beach , her wall painting was one of the attractions of the important art fair.

In 2009 the art museum in São Paulo ( Museu de Arte Brasileira ) showed an exhibition in which the twins could expand their full range of skills: In addition to murals, they played with sound installations, canvases and moving sculptures, transforming the museum into a psychedelic world. In addition to the Brazilian government, Deutsche Bank was one of the sponsors .

Her works of art adorned museums and walls in Berlin , Munich , Hildesheim , Augsburg , Darmstadt and Wuppertal - Elberfeld . In Hamburg the brothers took part in the Urban Discipline exhibition series , which was organized from 2000 to 2002 by the Hamburg studio community getting-up as part of the Maximum HipHop Days . There, the most famous representatives of the international graffiti and street art scene from Austria, Switzerland, France and the USA presented themselves in the old mail sorting hall on Stephansplatz .

In an interview, Ottavio Pandolfo named the drive behind the twins' work:

“Clearly the freedom and power that characterize graffiti. Nobody tells you how, where and why to do something. It's just a direct form of communication. "

- Os Gêmeos

Mural Global

As part of Mural Global , a worldwide mural project for Agenda 21 , Os Gêmeos realized a large mural in Hildesheim with the title Kommunikation in 2000 together with the graffiti artist Codeak , who lives in Germany . In 2001 another 300 m² mural was created in São Paulo , together with the Brazilian graffiti artists Vitché , Herbert Baglione and Nina Pandolfo and with the German graffiti artists Codeak, Loomit , DAIM and Tasek . The mural is located under a viaduct of the Beneficência Portuguesa hospital on Avendia 23 de Maio and includes the theme of air, earth, water and fire .

80 murals have so far been created as part of the Mural Global mural project . It is an initiative of Farbfieber eV Düsseldorf, under the patronage of UNESCO . The project was awarded the Socioculture Innovation Prize 2002 by the Socioculture Fund.

Army of Lost Souls

On the Outsides project sponsored by Red Bull , an illegal corporate street art attack in Wuppertal in 2006, Os Gêmeos & Nina created the army of lost souls in the disused Rott tunnel . Murals with thirty human-sized figures showed women, men and children as sad creatures, whose desolation and forlornness impressively staged the gloomy atmosphere of the old tunnel. The work of art was destroyed in 2010 on the initiative of the non-profit association Wuppertal Movement for urban planning reasons ( conversion of the 22 kilometer long route of the disused Wuppertal Northern Railway into a pedestrian and cycle path).

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Os Gêmeos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expoente da arte de rua, Nina Pandolfo conta detalhes de seu livro ao FFW. In: Fashion Forward (FFW), October 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ Farbfieber eV (Ed.): Who Owns the World? Mural-Global: Worldwide mural project on Agenda 21 . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-111-6 , p. 96-98 .
  3. ^ Mural Global. Hildesheim - Brazil. Farbfieber eV, 2002, archived from the original ; accessed on February 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Farbfieber eV (Ed.): Who Owns the World? Mural-Global: Worldwide mural project on Agenda 21 . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89861-111-4 , p. 156 ff .
  5. ^ Mural Global. Sao Paulo - Hildesheim Hospital Beneficencia Portuguesa. Farbfieber eV, 2002, archived from the original ; accessed on February 4, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Frank Lämmer (Ed.): We come at Night: A Corporate Street Art Attack. Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin / London 2008. Contains the film documentation They come at night ISBN 978-3-89955-216-4 pp. 44 to 57 as a DVD supplement .
  7. ↑ Lars Mader: Art simply milled away. In: Rheinische Post (RP online), August 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  9. ↑ Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  10. ↑ Mirko Reisser , Gerrit Peters , Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 , p. 110 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  11. ↑ Against the wall. Wakin 'up Nights at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. ArtNet, March 20, 2007, accessed on January 27, 2014 .
  12. ^ Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg (eds.): Wakin 'Up Nights . Exhibition catalog. 1st edition. Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich 2007 (English).
  13. ^ Gerhard Finckh , Toke Lykeberg: still on and non the wiser: an exhibition with selected urban artists. Exhibition catalog. 1st edition. Publikat Verlag, Mainaschaff 2008, ISBN 978-3-939566-20-5 .
  14. ^ Exhibition "Fresh air smells funny". Street art, graffiti and urban art in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche. City of Osnabrück, accessed on May 18, 2013 : “On display are street art, graffiti and urban art, including works by Herbert Baglione (Brazil), Boxi (Great Britain), Brad Downey (USA), DAIM (Germany), D * Face (Great Britain), Hera (Germany), [[Mark Jenkins (Artist) |]] (USA), Daniel Man (Germany), Os Gemeos (Brazil), Pius Portman (USA / Switzerland), Swoon (USA), Tilt ( France), Vitché (Brazil), Zevs (France), Zezao (Brazil). "
  15. ^ André Lindhorst, Rik Reinking : Fresh Air Smells Funny: an exhibition with selected urban artists. Exhibition catalog. 1st edition. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939583-94-3 .
  16. ↑ Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking. KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, 2008, accessed on June 27, 2013 (English): “The exhibitions includes works of art by, among others: Till FE Haupt (DE), Mirko Reisser alias DAIM (DE), Rainer Splitt (DE), Banksy , (UK), ZEVS (FR), Otavio og Gustavo Pandolfo alias Os Gemeos (BRA), Santiago Sierra (ESP), Katsuhiro Saiki (JP), Liam Gillick (GB), Barbara Kruger (USA), Toshiya Kobayashi (JP) , Tony Ousler (USA) and Nan Goldin (USA). "
  17. ↑ Sven Nommensen, Iben From: Call it what you like !: Collection Rik Reinking . Exhibition catalog. 1st edition. KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark 2008, ISBN 978-87-91252-23-5 .
  18. ^ Urban Art. Works from the Reinking Collection. New Museum Weserburg Bremen Foundation, 2009, accessed on June 25, 2013 : “Participating artists: Akim, Ash, Herbert Baglione , Banksy , Blu , Boxi , Bronco, Dave the Chimp, Brad Downey , Ben Eine, Shepard Fairey , [ [Mark Jenkins (artist) |]], Kaws, Daniel Man , Miss Van, Mode 2, Os Gêmeos, Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ), Space Invader, Swoon, DTagno, Tilt, Vitché , Heiko Zahlmann , Zevs, Zezão "
  19. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection. 1st edition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 .
  20. ↑ Irmgard Ruhs-Woitschützke: Street Art. In the Barmen art gallery . In: Rhenish ART. KulturMagazin-online. Editorial office ImDialog, November 2008, accessed on May 30, 2013 : “The curator Rik Reinking made the selection of the artists with a wealth of knowledge. Participants : Ash, Herbert Baglione, Boxi , Brad Downey , Ben Eine, Faith47, Boris Hoppek , [[Mark Jenkins (artist) |]], JR , Os Gemeos, Mirko Reisser ( DAIM ), Swoon, Zezao "
  21. ^ Street Art. Artists. (No longer available online.) REINKINGPROJEKTE, 2011, archived from the original on July 9, 2013 ; accessed on June 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / streetart-wuppertal.com