Flávio de Carvalho
By: curadoria de Rui Moreira Leite ; [English translations, Paul Webb]
Contributors: Leite, Rui Moreira; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Publisher: Museu de Arte Moderno MAM de São Paulo
Published: 2010
Place of publication: São Paulo, Brazil]
Language: mul; por; eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9788586871443
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation
Description: The Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo is bringing back to light many aspects of the work of one of the most innovative artists of his time in this retrospective, that brings about sixty works and approximately 30 other items among photographs, essays and documents attesting Flávio de Carvalho's (1899-1973) innovative production. The main piece is his architectural design ranked among the first places in a contest promoted by the City of Sao Paulo in 1934 in order to choose the second Viaduto do Chá overpass, which was inaugurated in 1938. The view from the Anhangaba valley, until now unknown to the public, is the opening piece of the show, set on the first large exhibition panel at the entrance of the exhibition room. Flávio de Carvalho was years ahead of his time. Multimedia and provocative artist, he got involved with many different artistic disciplines, such as architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, happening, set decoration, and theater in order to transcend the narrow aesthetic and social values that prevailed in Sao Paulo, and more generally speaking, in Brazil at the time. His simultaneous degrees in Engineering and Painting, acquired in England (Durham University, Newcastle upon Tyne), granted him an aesthetic concept that was then unusual in Brazil, and a wide range of interests that led him to experiment with art in an innovative way, most of all for his contemporaries in Brazil. "Curator Rui Moreira introduces Flávio de Carvalho's oeuvre selection in an innovative and rigorous manner, allowing the artist's plurality to be revealed in the convergence of chronological and thematic approaches. For the first time visitors can make out for themselves a the relationship among the architect, the cultural provocateur, the fine artist, the experimenter, society's critic and researcher of human soul."--Milú Villela, p. 9.
Notes: "15.04-16.06.2010."

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-391).

In Portuguese with English translations at end.
Table of contents: title: Flávio de Carvalho : sugestões de leitura  -- Rui Moreira Leite; title: Flávio por ele mismo ; Artes plásticas ; Arquitetura ; Agitação cultural  -- Flávio de Carvalho; title: Flávio de Carvalho  -- Mario de Andrade; title: No salão do sindicato  -- Lourival Gomes Machado; title: Cronología --; title: Bibliografía --; title: Lista de obras.