Lúcio Carvalho
Counterpart, 2022.
Original oil on canvas.
Large-scale painting. Hand-signed on verso.
This artwork is framed and wall-ready.

A Dance Between Past and Present: Carvalho’s artistry rests in this interplay: the porcelain helmets, symbols of protection, fragility, and ritual, hover like metaphors for our own emotional shields. Together with meticulous brushwork and theatrical staging, these works echo a story of safeguarding the heart even as we bravely reveal it. His creative journey is a dialogue between master painters of old and his tender memories, between collective theatricality and personal concealment. The past’s ornate elegance in each piece meets the present’s yearning for connection.

“In this series, I started based on research about the great masters of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo. I took their magical and unreachable characters that fascinated me so much through the history books, transported them to my universe, and then protected them with my fragile porcelain helmets. I detach myself from these classic and literal paintings and get closer to a more contemporary context, permanently attached to my affective memories that are the basis of all my work.” — Lúcio Carvalho.

Lúcio Carvalho – Off The Wall Gallery, Houston, Texas.