Carlos Romano

Carlos Romano develops a transdisciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, music, dance, poetry and writing. Through these different languages, he explores human emotions, the memory of the body, and the African heritages that shape his imagination.

In painting and sculpture, Romano unfolds a singular expressive figuration, where bodies seem to carry inner states rather than fixed identities. Presence, vulnerability, spirituality and movement meet in a constant tension between strength and fragility.

Music and rhythm occupy a central place in his practice, not as decorative elements, but as extensions of the work itself. His symphonic approach is deeply marked by Ludwig van Beethoven, whose sense of grandeur, intensity and emotional architecture opened a path toward the creation of his own musical language. Alongside this, Angolan roots, Afro-Cuban rhythms, Afro-Latin cultures from Brazil and Cuba, the voice of Rokia Traoré and the cinematic melodies of Antônio Carlos Jobim nourish his choreography, dance and sonographic approach to painting.

Through his project Afrophilia, Romano questions African identity, love, existence and the deeper structures of human experience. For him, painting, music, dance, poetry and movement form one body: every brushstroke, note, word and gesture carries intention. His work does not seek only to represent a subject, but to reveal its spirit, its purity and its inner soul.