Eugenio Carlos initiated his career on the Brazilian stage, sponsored by local arts patron Paschoal Carlos Magno, playing Shakespeare, Ibsen and other classics. In the early fifties, he left Brazil for Pasadena, Los Angeles, to study dramatic arts at the Pasadena Playhouse, under names such as Michael Chekhov. After 2 years and a brief career on stage and film, Carlos returned to Brazil, where he continued for a short time to act, mainly in theatre. During the early sixties, Eugenio Carlos became a plastic artist, specialized in woodcarvings. Alongside his wife, painter Mady, and under the pseudonym of Batista, the couple became worldly renowned as "The Ambassadors of the Brazilian Soul". Numerous exhibitions around every continent assured Batista of a leading position in Brazilian plastic arts community. He currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, and still works as a woodcarver.
(June 2003) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
