Homebase Vienna…
There are cities one conquers; others, instead, one inhabits. Vienna, for Gustavo, has not merely been a destination but an initiation. „If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere“, the phrase resonates with both demand and promise. Homebase Vienna is not simply a point on the map; it is the symbolic anchor from which his practice unfolds.
The atelier, that space both intimate and exposed, functions as refuge and showcase at once. A good place to hide and work, certainly, but also a place to be seen. A space for himself, for friends, colleagues, and neighbors; a straightforward destination, a secure ground where the world is still being invented. In times of acceleration and spectacle, the atelier stands as an active pause: what happens here is not noise, but sedimentation.
There was a time when Gustavo worked alongside an attentive and deeply involved gallery owner who valued concrete art and geometric abstraction. That constellation was brief yet intense. Today, without gallery representation in Vienna, the artist has shifted the center of gravity toward his own space. The atelier thus becomes an organic, almost self-fashioned institution, where legitimacy arises not from the market but from encounter.
The Atelier as Sacred Space
There is something sacred about this place, not in a dogmatic sense, but in a ritual one. Here things happen, converge, and intertwine: project previews and reviews, collaborations, colleagues’ exhibitions, celebrations, parties, and manifold occurrences. Each event leaves a trace; each visit subtly reshapes the space. The atelier is not merely a container for artworks, but a living organism, a hub full of vitality and solutions.
In its daily rhythm, the studio becomes a meeting point for neighbors, for the artistic community, for those who cross its threshold out of curiosity or affinity. It takes shape as a micro cultural institution, a node where the domestic and the professional interlace. Hospitality, perhaps inherited from his years in gastronomy, structures the experience: to enter the atelier is to be received, listened to, involved.
