He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism
Walking tall … Flávio de Carvalho wearing a New Look-suit in São Paulo during his art work Experiência n.3, in 1956.Walking tall … Flávio de Carvalho wearing a New Look-suit in São Paulo during his art work Experiência n.3, in 1956.He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection.
The Dada-inspired Experience N. 2, which ended with De Carvalho bundled into a police station for his own protection, was the first example of performance art in. Yet its instigator never achieved the international fame his artist peers did, perhaps because of his refusal to make work that chimed with trends.
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