Marcos Vasconcellos

All my work is constructed with the questions about graphite. Graphite is composed of carbon with your six atoms brought in by meteors onto surface of the earth. All life is made by carbon/graphite. Is the most social element of the all chemistry and your derivations is about a thousands another substances, including the DNA. Is this the utopic materia for excellence to make magic actions like the own life and , under very high pression, to transform itself in diamonds- the material or the spiritual ones. At the moment, living in the world without utopias I put my works like thoughts about what is possible now, then I make them possible with the transformation of the graphite in images. I ever put my country and my city, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil , in that dreams remembering what Americus Vespucci writes in his diary - Novus Mundus : -"I reckon that if paradise on earth would be in this world, it wouldn't lie so far removed from these regions..." I want to remember here that all my images I work with the memory that works this way , in stretches that move at a faster speed than light speed, in the time of creation whose immobility is only apparent. Making these drawings I imagine an architecture of infinites. I'm inspire in Gaspra ...

- I 'm doctor in Medicine with especialization in medical clinic and psychiatry by medical school of vassouras - Severino Sombra University-!972/1977

- I'm worked like journalist too in art edition in TV Globo and art direction for another channels. 1977/1984 and 1992/1993

- I begin in art at twelve years old in IBA - today Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage- Rio de Janeiro -Brazil

- Studied with Beatriz Milhazes, Daniel Senise, Pizarro Contemporary Art - 1985- Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro