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The Brazilian artists OSGEMEOS are used to exhibiting their work in sizeable spaces. Their flat-nosed yellow characters — their signature — have appeared on murals, concrete grain silos, an 800-year-old castle, and a plane. This month the duo will take it one step further, illuminating New York City’s Times Square billboards with rotund, bobbing heads.
The work, entitled Parallel Connection, appears as part of the Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment series. The public arts program has featured a new artist every month since 2012. For Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, the twins behind OSGEMEOS, the work is a dialogue between two worlds — the imaginary and the real.
Director of Times Square Arts Sherry Dobbin says the ongoing exhibit, which has showcased artists like Tracey Emin, Isaac Julien, and Andy Warhol, is an opportunity to expose general audiences to high quality, contemporary art. “Nowhere else in the world, there is this iconic cannon of electronic billboards. We’re looking for a combination of emerging and established artists, a diversity of style, and we are really interested in those who want to play with public space”.
Born in São Paulo and working under the name OSGEMEOS since 1987, the siblings work alongside each other on each project, and have always communicated in an artistic way. The two have worked in many mediums including graffiti, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and most recently, animation.
The meaning of the expression “are used to” (l. 1) is equivalent to are accustomed to.