EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST FERNANDO CARPANEDA

Fernando Carpaneda has been creating sculptures and paintings within the punk and homoerotic genres since the 1980s. His voracious involvement in the cause of diversity and punk culture led him to exhibit at the CBGB art gallery, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Tom of Finland Foundation, The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art among others. Carpaneda did the illustrations for The Best of Punk Globe Magazine, a book that brings together interviews with Debbie Harry, Jamie Oliver (UK SUBS), Earl Slick, John Lydon, The Adicts, Glen Matlock, Joe Dallesandro. Carpaneda’s works were published in the book Treasures Of Gay Art, by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, alongside Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring. The artist participated in the Long Island Biennial in 2020 and 2022 and some of his works were exhibited on LED panels in Times Square, New York. Carpazine: How did you end up on Long Island? Tell us a little about your early career and the influences that led you to where you are today. FC: I come from an Italian family but I was born in Brazil. I had my first exhibition of paintings at the age of 13 in the early 80’s in Brasilia: the capital of Brazil. I came to Long Island by chance. At one of the first exhibitions I did in New York, I met an artist who invited me to visit his studio on Long Island, and I ended up moving there.  <a href="https://medium.com/@carpazinemagazine/exclusive-interview-with-artist-fernando-carpaneda-5d6030fcd2e6">Click Here</a>