Public Art

Public spaces should be used politically.

Solo Projects

Itinerant spherical, flat and concave surfaces

Funchal & Porto, Portugal - 2021.

Biodegradable plastic (PLC) and stainless steel.

Dimensions: Customizable space of 120 to 240 cubic centimeters approximately.

Each bird house: approximately 17x20x15 cm.

Spherical surface: 26 cm diameter.

Flat surface: 26x26 cm.

Concave surface: 26 cm diameter.

Sign: 30x20 cm.

 

"Itinerant concave, spherical and flat surfaces” (2021). Three different surfaces, a concave, a spherical and a flat one. All made with the same material and lifted in customizable heights by tripods made for supporting the photography equipment. The intervention is accompanied by a sign explaining briefly what human echolocation is, how to start practicing it naturally and the possible usage of the objects. This explanation is written in Braille letters and in embossed Roman alphabet. An embossed iconography is as well supporting the usage explanation. Last but not least, the sign presented as well as QR code leading to a link in which the spectator would be able to download the “Sonar Application” prototype and use it as an option to experience echolocation within the objects. This sign was made with the same material as the geometrical surfaces and was lifted in a lower height than the surfaces by the same kind of supporting equipment. Ideally the surfaces should be in the face height of the human subject using it. The artwork is not site-specific, nut context-specific, being able to be installed into different places. This itinerant capacity feeds the intention of spreading the human echolocation ability by allowing its installation on different cities around the world. Until the present moment the intervention has taken place in three different sites at Funchal city, Madeira, Portugal.

The sonar glasses / The sonar mask (work in progress)

Berlin & Langenargen, Germany - 2020/2021.

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Simbiose - Symbiosis - Póvoa de Lanhoso - Portugal - 2019.

Wood, plastic and zinc wire.

Dimensions: Full installation: approximately 150x250x150 cm.

Each bird house: approximately 17x20x15 cm.

 

Symbiosis - "a relationship between two types of animal or plant in which each provides for the other the conditions necessary for its continued existence" (Cambriedge Dictionary).

The work represents a supposed synergy between the urban and the natural environment. The city as a living organism, which in harmony with the structure of a tree, artificially redesigns environments capable of supporting wildlife. The aesthetics of the conglomerate of objects seeks to represent a biological infestation of a living agent by another living agent.

Zona de Inconforto - Unconfort Zone

Póvoa de Lanhoso - Portugal - 2018;

Wood, nails and leafs.

Dimensions: 800x800x240 cm.

 

This sculpture were produced in the second Ecological Art Residency of Carvalho de Calvos Park in Povoa de Lanhoso, Portugal.

 

The main idea was to represent the nest of the Tordo Zordal bird, a specie in extinction risk by the illegal hunting in Portugal.

 

On the first project two hunting guns would be pointing to the sculpture spectators after them sit on the bench that is inside the nest, on the “unconfort” zone. However, due to legal issues the guns were not ceded by Povoa de Lanhoso’s City Hall.

Obocobovos - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2017.

Polished stainless steel.

Dimensions: Full Installation: 400x200x300 cm;

Bigger sculpture: 150x190x120 cm;

Medium Sculpture: 70x120x50 cm;

Smaller Sculpture: 50x80x40 cm.

 

Can you imagine a city as an alive thing, trying to communicate with the humans that lives in it? This creature does not have the same communication system as us, consequently, speaking human language would not be an option. This artwork supposes an attempt from Rio de Janeiro to send a simple message to its population: “You are important for me”. To people from Rio de Janeiro the body appearance is an important factor, this is a well known characteristic and sometimes it is criticized as a superficial concern. On this supposition, the city knows that.  So it chosen to use some mirrored geometrical formations, that would come from under the earth and appear in the middle of the beach on a very popular day, just to give a strange mirror to the beach users.

 

These artwork consists on three mirrored pyramidal shape sculptures, made with stainless steel, that were exposed in the sands of Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The sculptures were there before the first sunlight, at 5:50 am of the day 25th of march of 2017. The artist took some pictures of it and after that, stayed on the beach disguised as a normal beach user and left a hidden camera on a tripod, just to tape the way people would interact with the strange objects.

 

Obocobovos is the plural form of a neologism that Gustavo created to describe these kind of pyramids that consist of a irregular sectioned pyramidal solid with a squared triangle base.

Collective projects

Estrato Extrato - 1st Granite Symposium of Mondim de Basto

Mondim de Basto - Portugal - 2019.

Different type of stones and iron bars.

 

This apparently abstract stones group work as a map of Mondim de Basto District. The biggest rock, with a carved staircase represents Farinha Mount and the smaller formations represents each village of the entire district. The iron bars shape are inspired on rupestrian symbols found on the region. Each rock were collected on the respectively locality that they represent and temporary marks were made on the landscape on where they were took from.

Fine art photography

A minimalistic dreamlike aesthetic is the objective of Gustavo as an artist, consequently this is present on his photography. The images has no edits and no post-production, they exists only in black and white, one time that the camera is always set as monochrome.

Architecture

Series: Poezja - Poland and France - 2017.

“Poezja” in polish means poetry “a very beautiful or emotional quality” (Definitios from the Cambridge dictionary). Sometimes a poet is able to resignify an word meaning by the way he uses it and metaphorically this is exactly the goal within these images, to resignify poetically the hard concrete shapes that are spread allover human architectures. They were made during may of 2017. Six of them were made in different polish cities and one of them in Lyon, France. These images has no edits and not any post-productions.

 

1 “Śnić” - Dreaming; 2 “Drzwi” - Door 3 “Poezja” - Poetry; 4 “Rozpęd” - Momentum; 5 “Skorupa” - Shell; 6 “Nic” - Nothing; 7 “Falowanie” - Undulation.

 

They exists only on Fine Art giclée (archival pigment) print on Hanhemühle Foto Rag® 308gsm and they are limited to 5 prints distributed on 3 different sizes. all copies comes assigned by the artist and accompanied by their certificate.

 

 

Sizes and numbering

30x45cm : 5 + 1AP

40x60cm : 2 + 1AP
60x90cm : 2 + 1AP
70x105cm : 1 + 1AP

Series: Oscuridade - Brazil and France.

This series tells the story about an addiction.

 

The word “oscuridade” is a portuguese neologism that reminds the word “escuridão” which in english means darkness. and this is exactly what this images are about, the sensation of seeing the untouchable light of happiness ahead, but the true is that you are still in the dark room of the addiction, trying to find a way to reach that light

 

This work is unfinished still, but this tree images are already available for sale

 

They exists only on fineart prints at hahnemühle foto rag® 308gsm and they are limited to 15 prints distributed on 5 different sizes. all copies comes assigned by the artist and accompanied by their certificate

 

 

Not selling

Series: Tepongocetunas - Spain 2016.

The name of this series is a neologism that respect the spanish language. The idea was born on a restaurant in a touristic small city of Sierra Nevada, Spain. An waiter with a lot of personality was always repeating the same phrase “si quieres aceitunas, te pongo aceitunas” which in spanish means: if you want olives I bring you olives. This spanish words stayed on the artist’s mind during all the trip and the pot of olives ha a very interesting appearance was a conglomaerated of the spice, forming an strange geometry made of repetitions. This explain the name of this group of images that consists in the capturing of strange geometric repetitions that were found on the spanish architecture details.

 

 

They exists only on Fine Art giclée (archival pigment) print on Hanhemühle Foto Rag® 308gsm and they are limited to 17 prints distributed on 5 different sizes. all copies comes assigned by the artist and accompanied by their certificate.

 

 

Sizes and numbering

30x45cm : 5 + 1AP

40x60cm : 4 + 1AP

60x90cm : 4 + 1AP

70x105cm : 3 + 1AP

90x135cm : 1 + 1AP

Series: Hankyu - Japan 2016.

Hankyu lines is a railway network composed by 3 groups o lines: the Kobe Lines, the Takarazuka Lines and the Kyoto Lines. This railway chain is very traditional in Japan and it provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Takarazuka and more).

 

This photographic series was not made only on this region, but all over Japan during the summer of 2016. The idea came after the artist realize how Japanese contemporary architecture are full of visible lines, some times external to the buildings and some times drawing wall textures. The images are an attempt of registering such lines. Not any edits or post-productions were used to reach the photographies aesthetic.

 

They exists only on Fine Art giclée (archival pigment) print on Hanhemühle Foto Rag® 308gsm and they are limited to 17 prints distributed on 5 different sizes. all copies comes assigned by the artist and accompanied by their certificate.

 

Sizes and numbering

30x45cm : 5 + 1AP

40x60cm : 4 + 1AP

60x90cm : 4 + 1AP

70x105cm : 3 + 1AP

90x135cm : 1 + 1AP

Series: Gesund - Berlin 2016/2018.

The name of this series in German means healthy “strong and well” (Definitios from the Cambridge dictionary).  The hotel attendant in Berlin was always saying about the good health of the artist by being on the streets during all the day during the winter of 2016, just to capture and find this images. Consequently this was the name of the series and guided the name of the images.

 

Their names from the first to the last are: 1 “kunst” - Art; 2 “Gesund” - Healthy; 3 “Weiße Blutkörperchen” - white blood cells; 4 “ “Verteidigung” - Defence; 5 Zellgewebe - Cell Tissue; 6  “Gestalt” Shape; 7 “Symmetrie” Symmetry; 8 “Selbsterkenntnis” - Self Knowledge

 

They exists only on Fine Art giclée (archival pigment) print on Hanhemühle Foto Rag® 308gsm and they are limited to 5 prints distributed on 2 different sizes. all copies comes assigned by the artist and accompanied by their certificate.

 

Sizes and Numbering:

30x45cm : 6 + 1AP

40x60cm : 3 + 1AP

60x90cm : 3 + 1AP

70x105cm : 2 + 1AP

90x135cm : 1 + 1AP

People

Series: Camouflage - Bahia  - Brazil - 2017.

The idea for this series was born after the observation of a "maria-farinha"  (a very common beige and yellow crab in brazil)  camouflaged on it. it was a mesmerizing vision by its simplicity. following this aesthetic the artist decided to photograph nude humans camouflaged on the natural environment.

 

All these images were made on bahia - brazil during december of 2016 and January of 2017.

 

They exists only on fineart prints at hahnemühle foto rag® 308gsm and they are limited to 11 prints distributed on 5 different sizes. all copies comes assigned by the artist and accompanied by their certificate.

 

Sizes and numbering

75x50cm : 1 + 1AP

45x30cm: 2 + 1AP

Indoor Installations

Mixed techniques and media are used to produce the installations. The search for new materials is constant. Usually the action is taped and some murals has qr codes on them which leading to videos contemplating the how it's made.

 

Artworks that wore taped are accompanied by their respective videos.

Verschwinden - Particular client

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2017.

Wall paper and stencil over wall and furniture.

Dimensions: 950 cm2.

 

Verschwinden in german means disappear and this is the name of this picture made in berlin, the iron mesh of audi zentrum  building disappearing on the horizon.

 

The artist chosen this image to compose this client’s house and the “collaging canvas” was a blend of the wall and the furniture in the room. The signature was made using the stencil technique.

Tepongocetunas - Morar mais por menos

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2016.

Adhesive on wall and glass door.

Dimensions: 900cm2.

 

Tepongocetunas is an installation made with a photography printed on adhesive and pasted over a mixed canvas. In this case an wall and a glass door.  All the space is studied and measured before the beginning of the collage project. the idea of what image or images to use comes after drawings and observations of the place. Showing the collage in a complex canvas make it looks like more organic and this is the objective of the artist. To show it as something that just grew there. if you analyses, our cities grows like this, like an alive organism.

Ximbogo - Pérolas do Calouste

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2016.

Adhesive on brick wall.

Dimensions: 240 cm2.

 

In 2016 gustavo was requested by Jac Carrara, Marcio Lan Bittencourt and Eliane Ferreira to participate on a exhibition called "Pérolas do Calouste". Pérolas means pearls in Portuguese and the main idea of the exhibition was to present sculptures, and furnitures made with wood brought back to the seashore by the sea. They  asked for an wall which could illustrate this idea.  The used image was made in 2015, in Bahia, Brazil and contemplates local people harvesting their fish net on the beach.

 

As you can see the artist don't show its face in the video and not as well on every social media. he says he want to be known by his concept and not by his appearance.

The Power of Naivety - Coletivo Coorte

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2015

Wheat paste and paper print on wall,

Dimensions: 220 cm2.

 

This wall was made for an exhibition in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. The artist decided to use a very complex surface, with a lot of different size pieces and chosen an uplifting message to the spectators.

 

"The best way to go further, is not knowing how far you can go".

 

The wall go further than the picture able us to see, but people used to start seeing the collage without knowing how would be its end and this as well illustrates the message.

 

As you can see the artist don't show its face in the video and not as well on every social media. he says he want to be known by his concept and not by his appearance.

Pineapple - Help Us - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2015

Wheat paste on wall.

Dimensions: 200 cm2.

 

Pineapple is an image made from an ordinary residential building in Botofogo neighborhood, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The interesting thing about such building was the form of its balconies that are pointy, what created a very interesting geometric repetition similar to a pineapple skin.

Street Art

Gustavo's artistic projects are always talking about the similarities between the natural world and the urban environment constructed by the mankind. With the street art is no different, the idea is showing in the streets the architectural images he produces in an organic way, something like some fungus, some barnacles or some moss, something that is just trying to survive and find some space. If you analyses closely, our cities grew in a little bit more complex way, but indeed by the same finality, the necessity of surviving.

 

The used technique is usually printed adhesive with spray glue or wheat paste on printed paper. The artist is not closed to techniques like painting, stencils and etc. Other technologies will probably appear on his body of work soon.

Pilze - Berlin - Germany - 2016 to 2017

Pilze in German means fungus, and what you are about to see is an urban fungus made by the repetition of the same images but in different sizes spread in a way that looks like aleatory, but is not.

 

This project is not fished, but some action was taped and a curiosity about it is that Gustavo got busted by the cops at Möckernbrücke Station. However after a long conversation they let him go.  He said he excuse himself telling a phrase in German: "Aber, das ist mein beruf" which means "But, that is my job".

 

The video is unfinished still but soon will be available here.

Tempodrom - Berlin

teufelsberg - berlin

 ballhaus grünau - berlin

Dimension Holes - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2015

Wheat paste on wall,

Dimensions: 100 cm2.

 

The measures of the two big rectangles and the distance between them were taken. If you notate the artwork is continuous and geometrically precise. The used image is a photograph of a building that was made in Copacabana neighborhood and now, is stamping a building at Leblon neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Measuring the wall precisely is something that is on all of Gustavo’s legal  murals and it brings a really interesting final artwork aesthetics.

Bombing (stickers around the world) - 2015 to 2017

Barcelona - Spain - 2016

Valencia - Spain - 2016.

Granada - Spain - 2016

Hiroshima - Japan - 2016

Osaka - Japan - 2016

Lisbon - Portugal 2016

Instagram Stories

In the artist’s words:

 

“Probably the most interesting thing I produce, but at the same time the less valuable”

 

 The poetic look for the urban environment is strongly present on his daily videos as well. But here you can taste a little from Gustavo’s personality, the way he looks to the world, the songs he likes, what he is feeling and thinking.

 

 The edits are made just-in-time, accordingly with the song rhythms. Everything is made by the cellphone in a quest of minutes and seconds, the video is captured while the music is playing and the drawings are made just after that.

 

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Biography

Small biography:

 

Name: Gustavo Romeiro.

Birth date and place: 1985 at Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil.

Lives and work at Porto, Portugal.

 

Post-graduated at Human Computer Interaction Design  at Faculty of Finearts of Porto's University  - in Porto, Portugal.

 

Studying at the moment at MADEP - M.A in Art and Design for the Public Space at Faculty of Finearts of Porto's University  - in Porto, Portugal.

 

Graduated as advertisement Art Derecting at ESPMrj - Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing - in Rio de Janeiro Brasil

 

Through the photography and public art Gustavo contest the similarities between the natural world and the urban environment constructed by the mankind.

 

The photographic images has no edits and no post-productions, they exists only in black and white. The camera is always set as monochrome.

 

In the public field, the artist chosen to work with sculptures and materials that are present on human constructions. The main concept in this area is to develop a language between the city and the people that lives on it.

 

 

Titles:

 

Hasselblad Masters Finalist 2018 Architecture

 

First place at IPA 2016 Non-Professional: Architecture, Other

 

Suggested artist by Instagram at 2015

 

 

Art Residencies:

 

3ª Residência Artística de EcoArte de Póvoa de Lanhoso - 3rd EcoArt Artistic Residency of Povoa de Lanhoso - Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal 2019

2ª Residência Artística de EcoArte de Póvoa de Lanhoso - 2nd EcoArt Artistic Residency of Povoa de Lanhoso - Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal 2018

Santa Clara Art Residency - Porto, Portugal 2018

 

 

Collective Exhibitions:

 

PH21 art gallery "Lines and Curves" - Budapest, Hungary - 2018/2019

Feature Shot Print Swap on Root Studio - New York, USA - 2018

Berlinblue art gallery emerging talents EMOP 2018 - Berlin, Germany - 2018

Brasilia photo show 2018 - Brasília, Brazil - 2018

Artigorio - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2018

Casa Cor - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2018

Santo Isidro Open Studio - Porto, Portugal - 2018

Casa Cor - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2017

Morar Mais Por Menos - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2017

Open Call - Cavalo Art Gallery - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2016

Morar Mais Por Menos - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2016

Desenho Como Matriz - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2016

Pérolas do Calouste - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2016

Second Hand - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2015

Help Us - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2015

Apezinho - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2014

 

Contact

gscr1985@gmail.com

 

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