The Other Side

OSGEMEOS is the collaborative project of Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, who got their start as graffiti artists. Under their chosen moniker, which means “the twins” in Portuguese, OSGEMEOS create a fantastical private universe filled with bright-yellow long-limbed characters and surrealistic landscapes. Their works, which span paintings, murals, sculpture, installation, and video, reflect contemporary and folkloric Brazilian culture in addition to the twins’ aesthetic influences, which include hip-hop, contemporary global youth culture, and the world of graffiti that launched their career. OSGEMEOS have exhibited in New York, London, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Berlin. Their work has sold for six figures on the secondary market and belongs in the collections of the Franks-Suss Collection, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Brasileira, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.