Renato Castanhari’s paintings vacillate between geometric abstraction—aware of constructivism, forming grids or windows of color—and the fluidity of informal abstraction, where latent landscapes emerge through liquid stains, melted contours, and impastos that leak beyond the canvas. The boundaries between figuration and abstraction remain uncertain, suspended, never fully resolved in the act of creation or contemplation. On the same canvas, multiple forces pulse together: mental, gestural, mathematical, and spiritual elaborations; chromatic research; optical and material experiments; philosophical curiosities about form, plane, and signs; studio exercises; insistences; hesitations; disastrous solutions; and successful failures. By Tálisson Melo

Castanhari holds a Master’s and PhD in Visual Arts from the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo (ECA–USP), His 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). Full CV

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