Kind Strikers - Exhibition from June 13 - July 11, 2026 
Digital Typographic Designs
 
 
Bringing together the drawings that illustrated a book of poetry by Regina Guimarães (Levantamento, published by Hélastre, 2024), to which others from the same source have been added, Paulo Scavullo’s exhibition, taking its title from a verse in that book, is entitled “Amáveis Atacantes".  
These drawings, which are on the verge of becoming words—insofar as they are constructed from typographic fonts—conceal their status as potential text and invite us to decipher the hidden source of their origins.  
The improbable figures on display in this exhibition parade in a sort of raucous procession of hybrid and unsettling bodies, endowed with an enormous capacity for mockery. 

Paulo Scavullo

Born in Porto in December 1965. He lives and works between Lisbon and the Alentejo. 
She studied Graphic Arts at the Soares dos Reis School in Porto where she completed the complementary course, and later the degree in Multimedia Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, where she also attended the Master's Degree in Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices. A scholarship holder of the National Centre of Culture between 1995 and 1996, he was also awarded a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1999. 
He has exhibited regularly since the mid-90s, and his work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. He was awarded an acquisition prize by the jury at the Biennale of Young Art, representing Culturgest at the Forum da Maia, in 1995, and won the 3rd prize at the Rijeka Art Biennale, in Croatia, in 1997. 
 
Among his solo exhibitions are: "Transtype" at the Stolen Books Gallery in Lisbon, 2024/25, "Posterized" at the Hard Club in Porto, 2023, "Behaviour" at the Karas Gallery, Zagreb, 1998, "Mad Bad and Dangerous to See" at the Módulo Gallery, Lisbon, 1997 and "Cançonetistas de Portugal" at the ZDB Gallery, Lisbon, 1995.  
Some group exhibitions in which he participated allowed the conception of important works in his career, with emphasis on "Excritex" - Evex, Évora, 2025, "Biennial of Illustration of Guimarães", 2025, Suro Festival, Évora, 2022, "In the vast Universe of Images", Maia Forum, 2022. "Bairro das Artes", Fernando Pessoa Gallery, National Centre of Culture, Lisbon, 2014. "Crosswords" Yron Gallery, Lisbon, 2009. "Private Bank Collection for Serralves", Serralves Museum, Porto, 2002. "Sparring Partners Academy Collection", ZDB Gallery, Lisbon, 2001. "Go To Frisco", ZDB Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2000. "Contemporary Art", Maia Museum, 2000. "WC Container", Artes em Partes, Porto, 1999. "The Empire Strikes Back" - La Capella, Barcelona, 1998. "Art 29'98" - Módulo Gallery, Basel, 1998. "ArtBrussels" - Módulo Gallery, Brussels, 1998. "Interior/Exterior" - Convent of the Holy Spirit Gallery, Loulé, 1997. "Take Off" - Galerie Krizinger, Benger Fabrik, Bregenz, 1997. "Biennal of Young Artists" - Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, 1997. "Zapping Ecstasy" - CAPC, Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, 1996. "ARCO'96" - ZDB Gallery, Madrid, 1996. "Biennial of Young Art" - Culturgest, Maia Municipal Forum, 1995. "Adidas Art" - Palais des Arts, Marseille, 1995. "Biennial of Young Creators", Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, 1994. 
He has designed images and graphic work for several cultural institutions, with emphasis on: "Multiculturalisms and New Miscegenation", Culturgest, 1995. "Encontros Acarte", Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1995. "19th Contemporary Music Encounters", Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1995. "Jazz in August" Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996. "Culturgest um Festival das Artes 304 days a year", Culturgest, 1996. "Jazz em Agosto" Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1998. "Encontros Acarte", Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1998. "Poetry in Lisbon", Casa Fernando Pessoa, 1998. "América Latina América", Culturgest, 1999. "Poetry in Lisbon", Casa Fernando Pessoa, 1999. World Poetry Day, IPLB - Portuguese Institute of Books and Libraries, 2000. "Poetry in Lisbon", Casa Fernando Pessoa, 2000. "Links, Links, Liaisons", Porto European Capital of Culture, 2001. "Photographia", Instituto Camões, 2002. "Encyclopedia and Hypertext", CFCUL - University of Lisbon, 2006. "Cuba Libre" by Cinemateca Portuguesa / Teatro do Bairro, 2013. "Travessias / Franchissements", Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, 2019. 
He was an illustrator for the weekly Expresso in the 90s and designed numerous book and record covers for various publishers. In 2002, he formed the pop band "Post Hit" with which he released several singles and the albums "Post Hit" in 2005 and "Hitmusic" in 2015. The first two singles "Vanishing Boys" and "Glamorama", released in 2005, were both No. 1 of the Antena 3 top for several weeks. 
 
SCAVARE         by Regina Guimarães 
 
can the numbers start to play make-believe 
change their grid-like ways 
and leap into the ring of silence where 
he becomes hyperbolic 
a sermon in an empty room 
a centrifugal smile 
anthracite on snow 
melting 
 
Scavullo, or Paulo, unfolds the caresses of the unbridled struggle 
much like the filmmaker Steve McQueen 
in his 1993  
short film *Bear* 
interweaves, in black and white, 
fighting stances with acts of sensuality 
and the defiant choreographic fusion 
blazes a trail towards 
erotic abstraction 
 
Scavullo Pablo Pavel Paolo  
inhabited by the plumbing of a mansion in 
metamorphosis, so to speak,  
just as Robert Pinget’s esoteric Mortin  
in his paralchemy  
seeks to summon to the laboratory of forms 
characters capable of heeding 
his desire to be stripped bare 
successively 
by each visitor 
in a festive agony 
this spell woven from arabesques 
prevented from ever becoming 
an auxiliary verb or a verb 
of filling 
compels the forever young artist to shorten 
the circuit between hand and mind – 
a plausible definition, 
perhaps time-honoured, 
of the struggle between lovers