The Art Of Fernando Carpaneda
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- New York-based artist Fernando Carpaneda, has participated in important international art exhibitions including: Bridge Art Fair / Art Basel-Miami, has works in the permanent collections of The Museum of Sex and The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York, The Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas among others. Carpaneda is represented internationally by The kymara Gallery and is part of the Anté Art Superstars led by Billy Name (Andy Warhol Superstars). Carpaneda is an artist born in Brasília, Brazil. He works with clay sculptures. His main theme is always the human being. He watches people in the streets, bars, concerts, and places where people sell their bodies. Fernando makes portraits of rent boys, punks, junkies, thieves and outcasts. Instead of attaching himself to muses, he focuses on male nudes to compose his art pieces, having the human being, the masculine, as the main goal in his work. All his portraits are like a relic, a holy place, a moment caught in time. He uses objects that have a connection to the portrayed person to composing his work, such as cigarette butts, condoms, beer cans, underwear, semen, empty toothpaste boxes. In other words, things that are part of these people's real world, and his own. He uses such objects and remains as a beginning for his portraits. Clay is used as technique. He uses it the same way it was used in the 17th Century (for painting baroque saint images). He even dresses his sculptures with cloth from his own clothes.
- Fernando Carpaneda by Nicholas Forrest!
I sometimes come across artists that I just have to let the world know about and Fernando Carpaneda is one of those artists, but be warned, because Carpaneda’s work is very confronting and will be not be to everyone’s taste. Those willing to keep an open mind and explore Carpaneda’s work will be glad they did because he is a truly amazing artist. A brave artist too. Brave enough to use rent boys, thieves, punks, goths, homeless people, and other unsavoury types as the subject of his work. If you are intrigued then please read on.When I first saw a picture of one of Carpeneda’s works I didn’t know what I was looking at. What I saw looked like a photo of a person but had a surreal element to it that suggested that there was more to Carpeneda’s work than the image revealed. As soon as I found out that I was looking at a clay sculpture I was completely blown away. The level of detail and the amount of work put into each sculpture is quite astonishing especially for a clay sculpture. To give each sculpture a personal association with the person they depict, Carpaneda uses objects connected to that person in the sculpture. Most of the people we see on a day to day basis whether it be at work or at social event dress and prepare their appearance so that the look as one would expect a normal person leading a normal life to look. Most of the people that Carpaneda depicts, however, dress and prepare their appearance in a way that reflects their true personality. These are the sort of people one would normally want to stare at but would try and refrain from doing so because we are taught that it is rude to stare. Instead of depicting the perfect male figure that most people are familiar with as a result of classical sculptors, Carpaneda utilises classical methods and materials to construct highly detailed analogues of what many would consider to be the outcasts of society. A classical sculpture of a nude male figure is an image that almost everyone is familiar with and is able to view without feeling uncomfortable, embarrassed or repulsed. A sexualised image of a homosexual male, however, is a totally different story. Carpaneda’s sculptures challenge our perceptions of gender and identity as well as questioning the labels that society put on people who do not conform to the accepted norm.Yes, his work is confronting and will not be to every one’s liking but it is undeniably the work of a talented artist who is not afraid of challenging the boundaries of artistic practice and confronting viewers with the issues of stigma and division in modern society. Nicholas Forrest is an art market analyst, art critic and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of http://www.artmarketblog.com, writes the art column for the magazine Antiques and Collectibles for Pleasure and Profit and contributes to many other publications.http://artmarketblog.com/2009/07/06/the-art-of-fernando-carpaneda-artmarketblog-com- BEATITOFF-Fernando Carpaneda
Leigh de Vries released her first solo project in July of 2008 - writing and producing the track "BEATITOFF" for the very provocative New York Artist Fernando Carpaneda. BEATITOFF - Fernando Carpaneda. Written and Produced by Leigh de Vries. Beat It OFF reached NO 7 in Mark Moores Chartage (18.09.2008). http://www.leighway.com/beatitoff.php
- Carpaneda`s autobiography in portuguese is out now!
"The Angel in Boots:A life of paint, sex and rock & roll"("O Anjo de Butes Uma vida de tintas, sexo and rock`n roll") is the autobiography of New York-based artist Fernando Carpaneda released recently in the US. The book has fallen like a bomb in the Brazilian conservative art scene and also abroad. The book tells a history of an underground Brazilian artist, originally from the suburbs of Brasilia, Brazil's capital and finds fame and prestige worldwide after exhibiting his work at CBGB`s Gallery in New York City....Carpaneda's life story in Brasilia is something that reminds an road movie, like Sid and Nancy in a Brazilian way - we would say Tupiniquim* - without the tragic ending, although he got close to death a few times. MORE...
- Billy Name Underground Anté Art Superstars!
- During an historic photo session, filmed by Anton Perich at the Chelsea Hotel, NY, NY, Warhol Superstar Billy Name has revealed his "Ante Art" Superstars. Each person has been recognized for their contributions to the "Ante Art Scene" or the reemergence of the counter-culture underground of art and music and design. Billy Name, whose seminal photographs reflect the culture and style of the 1960's and Warhol's Silver Factory is rapidly becoming recognized as the godfather and mentor of a generation of visual artists and musicians who are influenced by the early Avant Garde. Andy Warhol Superstars: http://www.warholstars.org/. On the picture the "Anté Art" Superstars: L-R: Milo Rock, Fernando Carpaneda, Miestorm Pierre Q. Serpent, Kymara Lonergan, Ruby Lynn Reyner and Jayne County (Missing in photo are Anton Perich, Ian Couch and Prairie Prince)
- (Photo by Billy Name/Kymara Artistic Management)
- Carpaneda at Bridge Art Fair during Art Basel!
Carpaneda`s "Charlie,the Gay Doll" at "The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery"at Bridge Art Fair during Art Basel. The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery has been invited to be a participant in The Bridge Art Fair in the Wynwood section of Miami from December 2-8th, 2008. Bridge Miami Wynwood was featured the best in international emerging art, presenteded in a modular, museum-grade exhibition space, builted on a 60,000 square foot development in Miami Midtown at NE 1st Avenue and NW 34th Street, immediately adjacent to Art Miami, Photo Miami and AIPAD, and centrally located between Scope, Pulse and Aqua.
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