Marcelo Maria De Castro

Marcelo Maria de Castro fully dedicates his time to the plastic arts, as a painter, draftsman, engraver and teacher.

Castro has an intense, subjective and surprising style. He portrays the human figure in contemporary works characterized by the harmonious effusion of strong and contrasting colors. With a narrative and autobiographical character, He suggests Expressionist interpretations of reality, dealing with form by gesture combined with strong and rhythmic brush strokes. With a heterodox formation in the last five years, the development of his pictorial thought included the use of mixed techniques on canvas, wood, panels and murals. In his studio, located in Panamby, in São Paulo.

Marcelo Maria de Castro has grat experience as an artist and teacher for diversified audiences - including architectural design and visual arts education. Integrates the teaching staff at the Pan American School of Art and Design.

His portfolio has already been presented in individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad.
He seeks to constantly update his repertoire in artistic trips through galleries, museums and artists' ateliers in Brazil, Europe and North America. The works of Cézanne, André Derain, Richard Diebenkorn act as a source of inspiration and important references.
He makes a point of talking and interacting with renowned artists such as Judith Lauand, Paulo Pasta, Dale Nally, Fernando Leitão, Enrique Lipszyc, Claudio Tozzi, Ingris Speltri, Dimitrov Blaigov, Giovanni Bagnoli, Claudio Cretti and Luiz Paulo Baravelli - with whom he worked for 3 years.