Os Gemeos Efêmero

“Outside the Cube”, the new public art project by HangarBicocca, starts on 20 April with a big site-specific public mural by Brasilian artists Os Gemeos.

With the new site-specific public mural, Efêmero, the first large-scale in Italy by Os Gemeos, Pirelli HangarBicocca unveils its new project “Outside the Cube” which will involve from 2016 to 2018 innovative new approaches to art in public space and a rich calendar of parallel events.

The project at Pirelli HangarBicocca will delve deeper in to the artist’s unique universe of mysterious symbolism and alternative realities. Os Gemeos’s works often huge in scale, matched with its distinctive patterns and colour schemes, referencing the natural world and improvisation of São Paulo.

The project will explore the history and spectacular architectural setting of Pirelli HangarBicocca, using the site as a starting point for an iconic new production. The mural will not only be painted on the buildings facade but be incorporated into the buildings architecture. This is an ongoing theme in the artists work, to create murals that transform the facade of a building into a new structure.

OsGemeos, Efêmero, HangarBicocca. Photo Sha Ribeiro

The project will be accompanied by a limited edition catalogue designed by the artists. The book will explore further the artists history of architectural interventions and include images of their works that have repurposed the built environment. Curated by artist and writer Cedar Lewisohn – who has authored many publications on art, and curated the exhibition “Street Art at Tate Modern” in 2008 – the project by Os Gemeos will occupy for one year the two outer walls of Pirelli HangarBicocca’s Cubo space, covering a total area of a thousand square meters. It will also be visible from the nearby train tracks and from the street.