A Partir de Dentro | Art Exhibition | Gustavo Sanches de Castro

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.