Guilherme Gallé b. 1994

Guilherme Gallé holds a degree in Graphic Design from Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (2016) and has developed his pictorial practice through studios and study groups. Between 2019 and 2023, he was assistant to painter José Roberto Aguilar. He is currently part of the course Painting: Practice and Reflection, led by Paulo Pasta, and participates in an Art History study group coordinated by Rodrigo Naves.

Gallé’s painting emerges from a continuous process of refinement: one work triggers the next, in a movement in which color, form, and space reorganize in response to one another. Tonal colors, built up in layers, structure the pictorial surface while simultaneously generating atmospheres. Recurring geometry does not assert itself as a fixed order, but rather as an unstable system that articulates fullness and void, proximity and distance. The void, in turn, is not experienced as absence, but as an active compositional element: it is what tensions forms and sustains the spatial dynamics of the painting.

His pictorial surface is constituted by dense matter, marked by incisions, erasures, and pentimenti, which point to the painting’s process while simultaneously propelling it forward. In this sense, Gallé undertakes a metalinguistic investigation in which the work is self-engendering: painting arises from painting itself, tensioning polarities between micro and macro, content and container, gesture and structure. Situated at the threshold between abstraction and figurative suggestion, his compositions invite slow contemplation, allowing the gaze to oscillate between rest and movement, between attention to detail and to the whole. Gradually, Gallé constructs a silent score, a meticulous dance to which the eyes adhere.

Among the exhibitions in which he has participated are Joaquín Torres García – 150 anos [150 Years] (group, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB, São Paulo / Brasília / Belo Horizonte, 2025–2026); Ponto de mutação [Turning Point] (group, Almeida & Dale, São Paulo, 2025); O silêncio da tradição: pinturas contemporâneas [The Silence of Tradition: Contemporary Painting] (group, Centro Cultural Maria Antonia, São Paulo, 2025); Para falar de amor [To Speak of Love] (group, Noviciado Nossa Senhora das Graças Irmãs Salesianas, São Paulo, 2024); 18th Território da Arte de Araraquara (2021); Arte invisível [Invisible Art] (group, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, 2019); and Luiz Sacilotto, o gesto da razão [The Gesture of Reason] (group, Centro Cultural do Alumínio, 2018). His first solo exhibition will be presented at Galatea, in São Paulo, opening on January 22, 2026.