- Sem título (P27/20), 2020
- espelhos graxos, 2003-2011
- Untitled (P41/19), 2019
- contact warning, 2014
- contact warning, 2014
- sala de espera, 2013
- regra de dois, 2011
- regra de dois, 2011
- sem título, 2011
- melhor assim, 2010
- roteiro para visitação, 2010
- sum of days, 2010
- a soma dos dias, 2006
- já estava assim quando cheguei, 2006
- lentes, 2003-2011
Biography
Carlito Carvalhosa's (b. 1961, São Paulo, Brazil - d. 2021, São Paulo, Brazil) work predominantly involves painting and sculpture. In the 1980s, Carvalhosa was a member of the São Paulo-based collective Grupo Casa 7, alongside Rodrigo Andrade, Fábio Miguez, Nuno Ramos, and Paulo Monteiro. Like his colleagues, he produced large paintings with an emphasis on pictorial gesture, an approach that was characteristic of the neo expressionist production. In the late 1980s, with the group having disintegrated, Carvalhosa began to experiment with encaustics and to make pictures using wax, either pure or mixed with pigments. In the mid-1990s, he turned to sculptures, making organic and malleable-like pieces with materials such as the so-called “lost waxes”. During this period, he also experimented with porcelain sculptures.
Carvalhosa has ascribed deep eloquence to the materiality of the media that he employed, seeking to transcend formal aspects in order to explore matters of time and space.. In his practice, one encounters a tension between form and materiality through a disjunction of the visible and the tactile - what we see is not what we touch, and what we touch is not what we see. At the beginning of the 2000s, he created paintings on mirrored surfaces which, in the words of curator Paulo Venancio Filho "put our presence inside them”. Beyond Carvalhosa's recurrent techniques and materials, the artist has also frequently experimented with objects like tissues and lamps in his creation of installations.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Matter as Image. Works from 1987 to 2021, at Nara Roesler (2022), in New York, USA; Sala de espera, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP) (2013), in São Paulo, Brazil; Sum of Days, at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (2011), in New York, USA; Corredor, Projeto Parede, at Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) (2008), in São Paulo, Brazil; Já estava assim quando eu cheguei, at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) (2006), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Recent group shows include:Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from MAM, atMuseu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) (2019), in São Paulo, Brazil, and at Phoenix Art Museum (2017), in Phoenix, USA ; Troposphere – Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Beijing Minsheng Art Museum (2017), in Beijing, China; Everything You Are, I Am Not: Latin American Contemporary Art From Tiroche Deleon Collection, at Mana Contemporary (2016), in Jersey City, USA; 30 x Bienal, at Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (2013), in São Paulo, Brazil; 11th Bienal de La Habana, Cuba (2011). His works are part of several important collections such as: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP), São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Exhibitions
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co/respondências
núcleo curatorial nara roesler 23.3 - 31.5.2024Nara Roesler São Paulo is pleased to present Co/respondences, a group exhibition curated by Nara Roesler Curatorial Project, which brings together works by important Brazilian...Read more -
carlito carvalhosa: matter as image. works from 1987 to 2021
carlito carvalhosa 4.5 - 18.6.2022Nara Roesler is pleased to announce Carlito Carvalhosa: Matter as image. Works from 1987 to 2021, a solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa (b....Read more -
I want to be like you
carlito carvalhosa 10.9 - 19.10.2019Galeria Nara Roesler | New York is pleased to present I Want to be Like You, an exhibition featuring a selection of works by Carlito...Read more -
roesler hotel #29: reflections on space and time
curated by agnaldo farias 1.4 - 11.5.2019Nara Roesler and kamel mennour galleries presents Reflections on Space and Time, the 29th edition of Roesler Hotel. With works by renowned artists such as...Read more -
faço tudo para não fazer nada
carlito carvalhosa 25.11.2017 - 9.2.2018Galeria Nara Roesler | São Paulo presents Faço tudo para não fazer nada {I do everything to do nothing}, second individual of Carlito Carvalhosa in...Read more
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theory of the inevitable convergence
carlito carvalhosa, artur lescher, marco maggi 15.11 - 22.12.2017Galeria Nara Roesler | New York presents Theory of Inevitable Convergence, a group show of the artists Artur Lescher, Carlito Carvalhosa and Marco Maggi. The...Read more -
cromofilia vs cromofobia: continuação
Abraham Palatnik, Angelo Venosa, Antonio Dias, Artur Lescher, Bruno Dunley, Carlito Carvalhosa, Daniel Buren, Eduardo Coimbra, Hélio Oiticica, José Patrício, Karin Lambrecht, Marcelo Silveira, Marco Maggi, Melanie Smith, Milton Machado, Rodolpho Parigi, Sergio Sister, Tomie Ohtake, Vik Muniz e Virgínia de Medeiros 26.1 - 18.3.2017Continuing her exploration of color and this hypothetical battle between the color chart and the color circle, Galeria Nara Roesler’s artistic director Alexandra Garcia Waldman,...Read more -
chromophilia vs chromophobia: an exploration of color
abraham palatnik, antonio dias, bruno dunley, cao guimarães, carlito carvalhosa, daniel buren, daniel senise, haegue yang, hélio oiticica, julio le parc, lucia koch, marcelo silveira, marco maggi, milton machado, not vital, rodolpho parigi, sérgio sister, tomie ohtake and vik muniz. 19.11.2016 - 21.1.2017Galeria Nara Roesler | São Paulo is pleased to present Chromophilia vs. Chromophobia: an exploration of color. The group exhibition features eighteen pieces by Abraham...Read more -
galeria nara roesler nova york - exposição inaugural
tomie ohtake, antonio dias, alexandre arrechea, abraham palatnik, hélio oiticica, marco maggi, isaac julien, karin lambrecht, 26.2 - 19.3.2016Galeria Nara Roesler Announces the opening of a New York Viewing Space New York, NY [February 29, 2016] Galeria Nara Roesler is pleased to announce...Read more -
o corpo e a obra de arte
marcos chaves, karin lambrecht, brígida baltar, alice miceli, paulo bruscky, raul mourão, bruno dunley, melanie smith, vik muniz, rodolpho parigi, antonio dias, berna reale, virginia de medeiros, rené francisco, xavier veilhan, carlito carvalhosa 20.2 - 26.3.2016Appropriations and interpretations of human and natural forms provide unifying thread in group show The Body and the Work of Art, set to open on...Read more
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precaução de contato
carlito carvalhosa 30.8 - 18.10.2014Carlito Carvalhosa to have his first solo exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler, featuring a brand new installation specifically designed for the gallery’s facilities.Read more -
portable practice
group show 18.1 - 18.2.2014Created by the gallery for our artists, the show brings together works that hone in on the poetics of their practice and, in some capacity, synthesize their works.Read more
News
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arte é bom
artur lescher, brígida baltar, carlito carvalhosa, marcos chave and raul mourão 30.9.2022A curadoria da mostra é de Daniela Thomas e Têra Queiroz , com realização da Dueto Produções . São dezenas de obras e instalações que...Read more -
utopias e distopias
berna reale, carlito carvalhosa, jose patricio, marcos chaves, paulo bruscky and raul mourao 13.9.2022Utopias e Distopias opens to the public today, September 7, at MAM Bahia including works by Raul Mourao , Berna Reale , Carlito...Read more -
sensory poetics: collecting abstraction
carlito carvalhosa 6.7.2022Untitled (2019-2020), a representative work from Carlito Carvalhosa 's late wax series, is now part of the permanent collection of the The Solomon R. Guggenheim...Read more -
linhas do espaço tempo
carlito carvalhosa 23.6.2022Linhas do Espaço Tempo reúne fragmentos cronológicos da trajetória artística de Carlito Carvalhosa . Pinturas, esculturas e instalações que remontam a mais de trinta e...Read more -
coleção sartori – a arte contemporânea habita antônio prado
angelo venosa, berna reale, carlito carvalhosa, elian almeida, karin lambrecht, lúcia koch, virginia de medeiros 1.5.2022Angelo Venosa, Berna Reale, Carlito Carvalhosa, Elian Almeida, Karin Lambrecht, Lúcia Koch e Virginia de Medeiros participam da mostra Coleção Sartori - A arte contemporânea...Read more
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rio
carlito carvalhosa 20.9.2021A performance Rio (2014), de Carlito Carvalhosa, tem sua segunda realização como parte do evento 'Festival Desenho Vivo', com direção geral e curadoria de Gregório...Read more -
carlito carvalhosa 1961 – 2021
carlito carvalhosa 14.5.2021It is with great sadness that Nara Roesler announces the passing of artist Carlito Carvalhosa (1961-2021), who leaves behind an immense and significant body of...Read more -
ateliê de gravura: da tradição à experimentação
angelo venosa, antonio dias, carlito carvalhosa, cristina canale, daniel senise, fábio miguez, josé patrício, karin lambrecht, león ferrari, lucia koch, marcos chaves, paulo bruscky, tomie ohtake 24.1.2019Thirteen artists represented by Galeria Nara Roesler take part in the collective exhibition Ateliê de Gravura: da tradição à experimentação, curated by Eduardo Haesbaert at...Read more -
oito décadas de abstração informal
angelo venosa, carlito carvalhosa, fabio miguez, karin lambrecht, tomie ohtake 16.1.2018Opening today, at MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo the exhibition 'Eight Decades of Informal Abstraction'. Curated by Felipe Chaimovich, the exhibition...Read more -
readymade in brasil
antonio dias, cao guimarães, carlito carvalhosa, helio oiticica, marcos chaves, paulo bruscky, raul mourão 28.9.2017Entre os anos de 1960, a partir dos (pop)concretos e neoconcretos, o readymade é introduzido no Brasil e, desde então, está presente na produção de...Read more
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pedra no céu: arte e a arquitetura de paulo mendes da rocha
carlito carvalhosa, daniel buren, laura vinci 12.4.2017http://mube.art.br/Read more -
transparência e reflexo
carlito carvalhosa, lucia koch 7.9.2016http://mube.art.br/Read more -
auroras - pequenas pinturas
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em polvorosa
abraham palatnik, angelo venosa, antonio dias, brígida baltar, carlito carvalhosa, cristina canale, eduardo coimbra, hélio oiticica, karin lambrecht, marcos chaves, milton machado, paulo bruscky, raul mourão, vik muniz 10.8.2016http://mamrio.org.br/exposicoes/em-polvorosa/Read more -
do clube para praça | arte clube jacarandá
angelo venosa, carlito carvalhosa, daniel senise, lucia koch, marcos chaves, raul mourão and vik muniz 21.6.2016http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/artes-visuais/gloria-ganha-espaco-para-arte-contemporanea-19513541Read more
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everything you are i am not: latin american contemporary art from the tiroche deleon collection
artur lescher, carlito carvalhosa, marcos chaves 10.6.2016http://manacontemporary.com/tirocheRead more -
"luz do mundo" -- international bienal of curitiba
julio le parc, o grivo, carlito carvalhosa 30.9.2015http://bienaldecuritiba.com.br/luz-do-mundo/#Read more
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carlito carvalhosa: matter as image. works from 1987 to 2021
carlito carvalhosa 3.5.2022Nara Roesler New York is pleased to present 'Carlito Carvalhosa: Matter as image. Works from 1987 to 2021', a solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Carlito...Read more -
in the studio | carlito carvalhosa
carlito carvalhosa 6.9.2019During the preparations for 'I Want To Be Like You', solo exhibition opening in September at Nara Roesler Gallery | In New York, Carlito Carvalhosa...Read more -
performance de arto lindsay na instalação "faço tudo para não fazer nada"
carlito carvalhosa 21.12.2017Performance de Arto Lindsay na instalação de Carlito Carvalhosa, parte da exposição 'Faço tudo para não fazer nada', em exibição na Galeria Nara Roesler |...Read more -
precaução de contato
carlito carvalhosa 23.9.2014Carlito Carvalhosa will have his first solo exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler beginning on August 30, featuring a mega installation especially designed for the gallery’s...Read more