The Pinacoteca de São Paulo presents OSGEMEOS: Segredos [Secrets]

The exhibition, the first panoramic of the artistic duo made up by brothers Otávio and Augusto Pandolfo (São Paulo, 1974) will take place from March 28 to August 3, 2020.
OSGEMEOS: Segredos [Secrets], curated by Jochen Volz, general director at Pinacoteca, gathers more than 60 works chosen from their rich store of imagery, of which about 50 have never been shown in Brazil. The show helps to expand the understanding of the relationship between art and city life – a reflection that marks the year 2020 at Pinacoteca.
The duo has carved out a path in the art world without ever losing sight of their wish to remain accessible to the general public. That path has included participating in shows at major international institutions, such as Hamburger Bahnhof, in Berlin, 2019, with a project devised in partnership with the Berlin breakdance group Flying Steps, a great international award-winner; the Vancouver Biennale, Canada (2014); MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011); MOT – Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, and Tate Modern, London, UK (both in 2008); and the Milano Trienale (2006), among others. In the course of their career, the brothers have also been invited to create works for important public spaces in more than 60 countries, including Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Australia, Cuba and the United States – featuring the electronic displays at Times Square, New York (2015) – among others.
Otávio and Gustavo chose the urban space as their place of experience and research from the very beginning of their career, in the mid-1980s. After taking a deep plunge in the hip-hop culture, which had arrived in Brazil just as they started to produce, and undergoing the influence of dance, music, muralism and popular culture, the brothers set out to develop a unique style, with a joyful mood, which has become an emblem of urban spaces both in Brazil and around the world.
At the Pinacoteca exhibition, the duo presents paintings, immersive installations, sound installations, sculptures, site-specific interventions, drawings and notebooks. The notebooks, dating from their teenage years and now presented to the public for the first time, precede their famous yellow characters and throw light on the roots of their emergence. The body of works takes the museum by assault and occupies all seven temporary exhibition rooms at the first floor, as well as one of the courtyards, several inner and outer spaces and, last but not least, the Octagon, which holds a specially designed installation.
During the months in which the exhibition is on display, the museum will be filled with the unmistakable style and spelling of the artist duo. Pina’s store will receive a set of new products designed by them, such as mugs, t-shirts and caps. Temporarily, the traditional sign on the facade bearing the institution’s name, created by the award-winning graphic designer Carlos Perrone in the 1990s, will be replaced by a luminous one designed especially by OSGEMEOS. Likewise, the electronic signatures of the museum employees’ e-mails, which today bear the institution’s logo, will be temporarily changed to the new identity.