Artist Feature: Fernando Carpaneda
...artist within gay culture and the punk movement.
Fernando Carpaneda was one of the first Brazilian visual artists to exhibit homoerotic works in Brazil. Since the 80s, his work hasn’t been limited to this approach only– beggars, pop-stars, prostitutes, drug users, punks and outcasts of all kinds are the subject of his attention and aesthetic expression.
“My work has always been an erotic portrait of street culture and are a public diary where I represent the way I live and the people that I have met in some moment of my life. My sculptures are connected directly to my lifestyle and my position as an artist within gay culture and the punk movement.”
Carpaneda creates miniature figurative sculptures with several mediums including clay, wood, fabric, cement, and the use of human hair, sometimes from himself other times from his models. The majority of his paintings are created with acrylic.
The following gallery features some of Carpaneda’s more toned down pieces from both his sculpture and portrait portfolios.
Editor’s Note: Due to the erotic nature of his work, unfortunately we are unable to present many of his more explicit art pieces because NAILED exists in a web format which would be identified as pornography.
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Fernando Carpaneda lives and works in New York, NY. He has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions throughout the world including Art Takes Times Square in New York, with exposure by more than half a million people. You can view more of his work here.