"Angular" exhibition by Alan Oju and Guilherme Callegari

A Raquel Arnaud Gallery presents the exhibition “Angular”, bringing together previously unpublished works by Alan Oju e Guilherme Callegari, with curatorial text by Lorraine MendesThe exhibition proposes a reflection on the angle not only as a geometric measurement, but as a gesture of will, a point of inflection and choice, a break that projects new directions and inaugurates other ways of seeing and occupying space.

Starting from distinct trajectories, but traversed by common experiences in the urban context of Greater São Paulo, the artists construct a field of dialogue marked by subtle tensions between deviation and permanence, control and openness, rigor and sensitivity. In Angular, the angle emerges as a record of encounters, clashes, and hesitations, carrying the memory of a movement that could have followed a straight line, but preferred to bend.

Alan Oju, an artist with a degree in History and a master's in Visual Poetics, develops an investigation that relies on cartographic methods to transform the experience of the city into interventions, performative actions, objects, paintings, and installations. While traversing São Paulo, where he lives and works, Oju constructs a poetics attentive to the physical, economic, and political limits that organize urban space. His works translate these frictions into precise forms, in which the angle manifests itself as a silent gesture of confrontation and symbolic recoding.

In his work, small gestures emerge amidst the chaos of the city, creating zones of tension where control and deviation, quarrel and direction coexist. The angular unit ceases to be a number or degree and becomes a memory of an encounter, something transitory, but laden with weight and meaning.

Guilherme Callegari, who graduated in Graphic Design with an emphasis on typography, has spent over a decade researching the intersection between design and painting. In his recent work, painting takes center stage as a field of formal investigation. Although distant from his previous practice, a residual memory of urban journeys persists, now translated into a rigorous commitment to the facture, time, and materiality of the gesture.

Callegari recognizes painting as an agent and constructs his works from layers of linen, preparation, and paint, in a process attentive to duration and glazes. In his works, the angle horizontalizes in fields of color, revealing itself in details that bend, tension, and suggest curves. The curve, here, does not create interval or corner: it creates time, a body that accompanies the trajectory and carries with it the memory of movement.

In the exhibition space, the works of the two artists come close without becoming confused. Their works almost meet, in intersecting biographies, in the noises of their execution, in angles and curves that indicate seemingly opposite directions, but which converge in the same field of attention. Observed as through an angled lens, these productions broaden the field of vision on two artists who share an interest in that which is born from deviation: the instant in which something could move forward, but chooses to bend.

Service
Exhibition Angular
From February 05th to March 28th
Monday to Friday, from 11 am to 19 pm.