Flávio de Carvalho & Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato

Sotheby’s S|2 presents two brand new solo exhibitions of works, by two artists associated with the rise of Brazilian modernism in the 20th century.

Gallery One will comprise the first UK exhibition of iconoclastic Brazilian multimedia artist and ‘romantic revolutionary’ Flávio de Carvalho (1899-1973), and will be co-curated by acclaimed curator, editor and writer Kiki Mazzucchelli. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1899, Carvalho was an influential painter, sculptor, scenographer, designer, architect, journalist, writer and playwright, whose high-profile and often provocative investigations into performance art, and determination to attract interest from the media and press, became a key part of his oeuvre. This exhibition is organised in collaboration with Leme/AD Gallery, São Paulo.

On view concurrently in Gallery Two will be a solo exhibition of works by Brazilian artist Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900-1995). Despite shared geographical and chronological overlap with the career of Carvalho, Lorenzato was a primarily self-taught ‘outsider’ artist, whose richly textured and intimate paintings portray observations of everyday life. Having remained widely unknown outside of his hometown until now, Lorenzato’s work is the present subject of an overdue reassessment within the context of Brazilian modernism and international art history.