Extract from the text published in Carlito Carvalhosa, Cosac & Naify, S\u00e3o Paulo, 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlito Carvalhosa seeks the essential without believing in essences. Substance has become an attribute like any other, since on the horizon of any process of simplification there is no longer any universal idea, but merely the reduction to nothingness. For this reason, the closer forms come to their foundations, the more they evade any definition or an unequivocal meaning that includes them. Today, every act of refining necessarily entails an emptying, to which the artist reacts by creating new accidents that are in turn obliged to undergo a new process of shrinkage that once more leaves them empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlito Carvalhosa\u2019s work embodies this method in an exemplary way. It is not by chance that his materials tend to be docile, mimetic, without a definite character and hence sensitive to the least occurrence. White and the translucent prevail among his colours, causing a chromatic annihilation that generates an ever-changing spectrum of luminous variations. The forms always refer to something without imitating anything. The final result reveals the process of constructing the work, while at the same time falsifying it, altering the information on the consistency of its materials, their weight or the effort required for its manipulation. The truth of the work thus lies in an undefined territory between nothingness and the anecdotal, the unimportant singularity and the hollow generality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no other way out: if the work refuses to be either idea or a mere commentary on an existing universe of signs, what remains for it is a non-place, a twilight between different dominions. The artist attempts to define this indefinite space in the most rigorous way possible, but is unable to transform it into pure, unattainable negation that would be just one more place, one more position among others. On the contrary, it is obliged to leave space to tumblings, to collusion with kitsch, with the obvious. Even today, the challenge is to leave things open.<\/p>\n\n\n
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