Carlito Carvalhosa (1961\u20132021) lived most of his life in Rio de Janeiro, where he embraced the radical legacy of Brazilian artists who preceded him. He brought their achievements to new, unprecedented dimensions in terms of concept, form, and scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neo Concretism\u2019s Theory of the Non Object, Oiticica\u2019s Fundamental Bases for the Definition of the Parangol\u00e9, Clark\u2019s Phantasmatic of the Body, Antonio Manuel\u2019s Body\/Work have been milestones of aesthetic newness leading to experiences of artistic exhaustion, both historically and formally, with implications preceding current manifestations such as Relational Aesthetics and Post-subjective Performative Art. The radicality of some of these propositions carried a weight for the generations that followed them often translating into a conclusive no-way out in terms of art practice. For instance, H\u00e9lio Oiticica\u2019s or Lygia Clark\u2019s late works, ephemeral and anti-monumental, clearly stepped on territories that transcended the conventional frames of art, towards the extended fields of the beyond-art: therapy or social practice, quasi- cinema and anti-art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The entire repertoire of Carlito Carvalhosa\u2019s oeuvre responded to this historical challenge, from his inception as a painter embedded in the deep sources of the formless and his acute sense of what is there in reality for art to his striking performative installations using fabric, neon, wood, wax, mirrors, and sound. Within the countless possibilities oft hese materials, Carvalhosa addressed the sculptural quality of draperies and creases, painting as volume and mass, and even in some landmark installations the presence of sound as opaqueness and density. Carvalhosa\u2019s work stands out for his consistent understanding of a generative dimension of matter and materiality in visual arts. For him, matter is image and images always emerge from the opaque field of materiality as forces expanding through opaqueness and transparency, reflection, and blindness, as marks in the density of reality that one needs to experience time and again, as things that were there before we were.<\/p>\n\n\n
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