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Brazilian artist Fernando Carpaneda was in New York last month exhibiting his so ever fascinating clay sculptures.       The exhibition called "Back To The Bowery" was at CB's 313 Gallery in the East Village, and also included artists like Walter Stending and the famous Billy Name, among others. The Gallery was packed to capacity.     Carpaneda's main theme work is the human being and he uses his own remembrances as a part of his creative process. His male nude pieces are original, sexual, raw, controversial, realistic and captures a moment in time of his models, that varies from street punks, prostitutes, drug users...to more celebrated people like Veruscha or chic freak Alisson Gothz.     A very important characteristic is the fact that he uses pieces of his own clothes to dress some of the sculptures, and Carpaneda also includes some of his own hair in the art works.     In a society where sex and nudity can be sometimes such a taboo, it was very entertaining to see all types of people reacting in many different ways to his work, which in this exhibition had a very explicit sexual appeal, of course done on purpose. Fernando Carpaneda deserves applause for being daring, and mostly for doing such an inspiring work in a city where waiting lists for art work that has yet to be produced, corrupts in my opinion the creative process of the artists.    gazeLLe

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