Carlito Carvalhosa

Exhibited by Nara Roesler

Material oil paint and wax on wood

Dimensions wood 50 × 40 × 6 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

Carlito Carvalhosa’s 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.

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