Some creations aren't content to just be seen — they traverse us. They touch silent
layers of the soul, as if born from a place we already know, even if we don't know
how to name it. Thus is the work of Marcelo Côrtes Fernandes: it doesn't describe the
world, it senses it. It's as if his volcanoes, his tides, his dragons and lovers were
already alive within us — waiting for the right moment to emerge in color and
movement.
Artist, engineer, and poet, Marcelo isn't content to just name what exists. He conjures.
He transitions between worlds, between mediums, between dimensions. His
canvases are energetic fields in turmoil — sometimes serene as a sigh, sometimes
incandescent as a confrontation between primordial forces. In his painting, love
bends to the wind, the sea speaks in ancient tongues, and dragons intertwine like
ancestral lovers in spiraling flight.
At the core of his creation, Marcelo seeks to express the mystical residing in the
everyday, life in its purest manifestation. It is a testament to the living and loving
energy that springs from the invisible, manifesting in the world in continuous and
transcendent evolution. In his works, we feel the pulsation of this vital flow that
transforms, elevates, and ascends.
The seeds of this art were sown early. Inspirations from romances and legends wove
the theme of the meeting of polarities and the emotions of relationships, which
blossomed into the symbology of twin dragons, beings of mythic force guarding the
essence of union. But the sea, a companion of a Rio childhood by the Atlantic,
infused his work with the vastness, the untamable force, and the fluidity that
permeate many of his canvases. In recent series, begun in 2023, the universes of the
ocean and the dragons met, initially emerging subtly among the waves before
revealing themselves in all their symbolic potency.
Marcelo is not bound to a single medium to express this energy. He explores various
techniques, sensing which one best translates the pulsation of that moment. Digital
art, for example, emerges as an extension of this desire – a way to give his work
permanence and allow this energy to break geographical barriers, reaching and
touching those who appreciate it in other parts of the world, feeling closer to them
through the flow of art.