Fabio Carvalho

Brazilian contemporary artist, born in Rio de Janeiro, since 1994 in the practice of visual arts.

Fabio Carvalho's most recent work is the "Macho Toys" series. This series emerged as a reflection on the elements that make up the stereotypes of gender and sexuality, particularly in sexist western cultures, such as toys that children are gifted with, and encouraged and allowed to play: balls, cars, guns, soldiers and more active and strength activities for boys; dolls, tea sets, dinner and miniature pots, and other delicate and sensitive activities for girls, particularly those that mimic the homebound culturally accepted as feminine.

This division into two distinct worlds, even when unintentionally, is used to direct and determining the future personality of children. The experience of childhood, through the socialization conducted by playing, allows children to build themselves as 'little men' and 'little women'.

After exploring the world of toys, and childhood, the Macho Toys series went on to the adult world, where stereotypes of virility, the subject of the art works, are already well established: the soldier, the bodybuilder, the hard labor worker and the successful businessman.

The Macho Toys series operates in th...

5 solo exhibitions and more than 60 collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad (New York - USA; Berlin, Braunschweig, Frankfurt, Guelnhause - Germany; London, Cardif - UK; Prague - Check Republic; Budapest - Hungary; Cuenca - Ecuator; Porto, Cerveira - Portugal; Havana - Cuba; Buenos Aires - Argentina).

More than 55 works in private and public collections, such as "Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center" - La Habana - Cuba, "Museum of Modern Art" - Rio de Janeiro - RJ, "Jos Mrio Brando Collection" - Porto - Portugal.,