Uma coisa por outra

Uma coisa por outra is an listening experience based on twelve works by Carlito Carvalhosa. We invited artists, curators, researchers, and critics who are familiar with his work to provide an audio description of a piece and discuss how it touches them, the context in which it was created, and the stories it carries.

– Anna Costa e Silva, Daniela Thomas e Maria Carvalhosa

featuring: Alberto Tassinari, Antônio Malta, Arnaldo Antunes, Arto Lindsay, Carolina Veiga, Cecilia Carvalhosa, Daniel Rangel, Erika Verzutti, Fabio Miguez, Frederico Coelho, Iole de Freitas, Ivo Mesquita, João Bandeira, Lorenzo Mammì, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Luisa Duarte, Maria Carvalhosa, Marina Rheingantz, Nuno Ramos, Paulo Miyada, Paulo Monteiro, Rodrigo Andrade e Tálisson Melo.

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Carlito Carvalhosa was born in 1961 in São Paulo, where he lived until 2002, when he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro. A painter and sculptor, he studied metal engraving at the studio of Sérgio Fingermann and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU/USP) in 1984. Between 1982 and 1986, he was a member of Casa 7, one of the most important groups of artists of the so-called “Geração 80.” Between 1989 and 1992, he lived and studied in Cologne, Germany, with a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).

Carvalhosa participated in several exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, notably the Bienal de São Paulo, Havana, Cuenca, Mercosul, Bienal Brasil Século XX, Mostra do Descobrimento in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Bordeaux (France), Panorama de Artes do MAM/SP, Saint Moritz Art Masters (Switzerland). He was also the first Brazilian to exhibit in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (United States). He has also exhibited at the Museums of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Bahia, the Paço Imperial, Museu da Escultura Brasileira, Museu da Casa Brasileira, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art at USP, Palácio da Aclamação in Salvador, Solar do Barão in Curitiba, Eva Klabin Foundation, and Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim in Rio de Janeiro.

His works are included in various collections, including the Museums of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Bahia; Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói and the University of São Paulo; Museu de Arte do Rio; Museu de Arte de Belém; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; SESC Brazilian Art Collection; Art Collection of the City of São Paulo; the Art Center of the Federal University of Espírito Santo; Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

His work includes painting, sculpture, drawing and installations. He worked with a variety of materials, particularly emphasising the use of wax as a pictorial medium and mirrors and aluminium as supports for paintings. He also used plaster, wooden posts, fluorescent lamps and non-woven fabric (TNT) in large-scale ephemeral sculptures, many of which feature sound activation. Carvalhosa died prematurely in 2021 at the age of 59.