Some creations aren’t content just being seen — they pass through us. They reach silent
layers of the soul, as if they were born from a place we’ve always known, even if we’ve never
had a name for it. That’s the experience of Marcelo Côrtes Fernandes’ work: it doesn’t
describe the world — it senses it. His volcanoes, tides, dragons, and lovers feel like they’ve
always lived within us, waiting for the right moment to surface in color and motion.
An artist, engineer, and poet, Marcelo isn’t interested in simply naming what exists. He
conjures. He moves between worlds, mediums, and dimensions. His canvases are energetic
fields in flux — at times calm as a breath, at others ablaze like a clash of primal forces. In his
paintings, love bends in the wind, the sea speaks in ancient tongues, and dragons spiral
through the air like ancestral lovers entwined.
At the core of his work is a desire to express the mystical within the everyday — life in its
purest, most sacred form. His paintings are a testament to the living, loving energy that
springs from the invisible, manifesting itself in a world in constant, transcendent evolution.
Within his work, we feel the pulse of this vital flow — one that transforms, rises, and ascends.
The seeds of his art were planted early. Romantic encounters and legends shaped the
theme of polarity and the emotional tides of relationships, blossoming into the twin dragon
symbolism — mythical beings that hold the essence of union. But it was the sea — his
companion from childhood days along the Atlantic in Rio — that infused his work with
vastness, raw force, and the fluidity that permeates so many of his paintings. In recent
series, begun in 2023, the worlds of ocean and dragon meet — at first subtly among the
waves, then revealing their full symbolic force.
Marcelo doesn’t confine this energy to a single medium. He explores various techniques,
sensing which one best translates the pulse of a given moment. Digital art, for example, has
emerged as an extension of this calling — a way to preserve and project his work across
borders, reaching and touching others around the world through the flow of art.