Renato Castanhari's paintings vacillate from a geometric abstraction aware of constructivism, forming grids or windows made of color; to the cuts of latent landscapes of an informal abstraction given to liquid stains, melted contours and impastos leaking from the canvas. The borders or passages between figuration and abstraction are placed in doubt, suspended, and are not consolidated in the experience of creation or contemplation. On the same canvas, many vocations pulse together: mental, gestural, mathematical, spiritual elaborations, chromatic research, optical and material experiments, philosophical curiosities about form, plan, signs, studio exercises, insistences, hesitations, disastrous solutions, and successful failures. By Tálisson Melo

Master and PhD in Visual Arts from the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA–USP), Renato Castanhari's main exhibitions include: Vacilante (Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, 2024); From sight to color (Espaço das Artes ECA-USP, São Paulo, 2024); Between painting and the body (Espaço das Artes ECA-USP, São Paulo, 2019); The Immense Laziness (Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo, 2018); 28th Youth Art Exhibition (Sesc, Ribeirão Preto, 2017); Erasure (Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo, 2017); 66th Salão Paranaense (Curitiba, 2017); 23rd Praia Grande Fine Arts Salon (Praia Grande, 2016); 44th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon (Santo André, 2016) and 7th Salon of Artists Without a Gallery (São Paulo, Nova Lima and Goiânia, 2016).

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