The World Is On Fire is Charlie Visconage’s visual statement for the present moment: a world shaped by collective anxiety, private reflection, and the urgent need to keep going. An American self-taught artist now living in Matosinhos, Portugal, Visconage paints from the need of lived experience and visual journey, turning the turbulence of contemporary life into a raw and luminous pictorial language. His work does not look away from the world as it is; it meets it head-on, with honesty, humour, and intensity.
Across his different series, and especially in Positive Fury, vivid fluorescent and neon colours push the paintings into a charged emotional space where innocence and unease coexist. The figures, gestures, and bold surfaces awaken something deeply familiar: the inner child, the instinct to feel before explaining, the belief that making is a human necessity. In Visconage’s hands, painting becomes both witness and release — a way of questioning the world, but also of reminding us that we are all, in some way, artists.
Gustavo Sanches de Castro, born in Espinho in January 1986 and active as a visual artist since 2018, develops a painterly language that is distinctly his own: abstract, expressionist, and rooted in gesture, dripping, and a direct physical relationship with the surface. Music accompanies his process, while the hand becomes an extension of the work itself — a way of painting that is lived as much as it is made.
In A Partir de Dentro, painting appears as impulse and body. The work does not seek to describe the world from the outside; instead, it releases an inner energy from within. Colour is thrown, allowed to run, touched, and felt with the hands, building surfaces where control and surrender meet. Each work holds the trace of a physical passage, a record of movement, rhythm, and intuition. What emerges is a language that is visceral, immediate, and deeply personal.
The exhibition invites us into the place where painting begins before it becomes image: in motion, in breath, in the body’s own tempo. It is an inward journey made visible — a painting that does not merely represent feeling, but carries it.
A Partir de Dentro opens on 14 November 2026 at 16:00 (4:00 PM) at Gallery Hostel Porto, Rua Miguel Bombarda, 222, 4050-377 Porto.
In Terra Ser, Rita Paupério approaches painting as a place of listening and belonging. Born in 1981 in Espinho, where she lives and works, she develops a practice rooted in abstraction, memory, and the construction of inner landscapes.
In this exhibition, earthy, ochre, and natural tones emerge as both matter and language. Colour does not merely describe nature: it becomes nature. Each surface seems to hold something ancestral, tactile, and essential — as if painting carried within it the breath of the soil, the transience and permanence of matter, and the stillness of a deeper time and place.
Terra Ser speaks of this intimate connection between Nature and Being: that which sustains us, shapes us, and returns us to a deeper, more human, and more present way of being. Between the visible and the sensitive, Rita Paupério’s work offers an experience of quiet reflection and recognition, where painting is also a way of inhabiting the world with attention and presence.
The exhibition opens on 19 September at 16:00 at Gallery Hostel Porto, Rua Miguel Bombarda, 222, 4050-377 Porto.
