Sao Paulo Brazil
In False Symmetry, Osvaldo Carvalho explores dissymmetries in painting – such as the use of distorted perspectives, “wrong” colors and disproportionate divisions – in order to warn of profound imbalances in the social and environmental spheres. Essentially a painter and the owner of a direct poetics, without subterfuge – you see what you see -, Osvaldo maintains, in his new works, the verve and pop acidity that characterize him, achieving plastic and saturated colors, and looking at mass culture and the environment, in works that capture the vision at the same time as awakening consciences, addressing themes such as inequality, racism, urban violence and ecology.
MAR 18 — MAY 13
Curator: Cadu Gonçalves
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Os Negacionistas, 2022
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188 x 192 cm
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Um Defeito de Cor, 2020
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191 x 186 cm
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Hotel Haiti (Série Terra Prometida), 2013/2015
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192 x 305 cm
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Valdez (Série Terra Prometida), 2015
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195 x 219 cm
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Cárites, 2020
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130 x 191 cm
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Público Alvo, 2020
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141 x 223 cm
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Osvaldo Carvalho
Danae & Perseu, 2022
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186 x 192 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Pele Negra Máscara Branca, 2020
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170 x 190 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Goodfellas, 2016
Resina, isopor e tinta acrílica
19 x 50 x 14 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #1 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (peroba)
23.50 x 7.50 x 7.50 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #2 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (peroba)
19 x 6.50 x 6.50 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #3 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (ipê)
19 x 8.50 x 8.50 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #4 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (ipê)
18 x 8 x 8 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #5 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (angico)
17.50 x 7 x 7 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #6 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (maçaranduba)
23 x 7 x 7 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #7 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (maçaranduba)
23.50 x 7 x 7 cm
Osvaldo Carvalho
Balafálica #8 (Série Balafálica), 2019
Escultura em madeira maciça (peroba)
19 x 6.50 x 6.50 cm
Like an archaeologist of his time – a time of virtualities, algorithms and fragments – Osvaldo Carvalho’s painting tries to capture the thread of here and now, what remains and what is to come, in a pop atmosphere populated by colors, figures, fractures and contradictions. A contemporary artist, Osvaldo Carvalho (Niterói, 1976) uses a myriad of images and references from culture and mass communication, such as cinema, the media, the internet, comics and advertising, to produce works rich in color and signs, in which he explores not only the visual vocabulary of our time, but the contradictions of an imaginary crossed by ideologies, conflicts and power. Osvaldo populates his canvases with human figures, animals, household objects, decorative items, urban landscapes, graffiti and well-known brands, arranged on the canvas not always in proportion and often situated on backgrounds with striking patterns, such as wallpaper, or on undefined and fluid spaces – producing tiny figures, like pixels that gravitate on textured colored backgrounds.
+ moreOr he arranges the elements in the frames of a storyboard, creating narratives that can take place in the frames of a single canvas, or unfold over several canvases within the same thematic series. Osvaldo thus creates a pop atmosphere of color and movement, sometimes acidic and lysergic, in fragments of scenes, situations and everyday details that are the fruit of a free imagination. Osvaldo doesn’t shy away from events and his point of view – the artist paints from the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro – addressing issues such as the black and indigenous question, social inequality or urban violence, often in direct reference. But he does so in exclusively pictorial territory, aware that he operates in an environment of saturated images, seeking to engage the weary viewer through a vibrant palette and provocative angles and ideas, in associations and overlays of elements that are not always random and never innocent.
