Bio & CV
Marcus Frade was born in 1970 in Rio de Janeiro, where he currently lives and works. He has a degree in Product Design from the Escola de Belas Artes, UFRJ, and a postgraduate degree in 3D art for digital games from Faculdade CCAA.
He participated in courses in silkscreen (José Benito Sanchez Gonzalez), woodcut (Adir Botelho) and ceramics (Celeida Tostes) workshops within the university curriculum.
In 2023, the Bela Biennial of European and Latin American Contemporary Art began participating in a major international collective exhibition in its sixth edition, where it is in several cities such as the Poleeni Cultural Center in Piksämäki, the Varkaus Library and the Cable Factory in Helsinki in Finland. Ending the year in Brazil at the Correios Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. At the beginning of 2024 he also exhibited at Parque das Ruínas (Parque Glória Maria) and again in Finland at AVA Galleria Varkaus.
He possesses a body of work with a strong personality, organic language and permeated by vibrant colors. When seeking to transcend his art to the sensorial realm, he employs several modeling techniques to achieve the effect of high relief. His creative process is dynamic and encompasses an array of techniques, interconnecting concept, design and practice.
His abstract art does not represent objects belonging to our external concrete reality. He blends colors, lines and surfaces to compose his own reality within his artwork. He draws inspiration from his instincts, unconscious and intuition, basing his art on lyrical or expressive abstractionism to create an imaginary art connected to an inner need influenced by expressionism.
Marcus plays with organic forms and applies vibrant colors within contour lines to bring out the non-figurative aspect of the artwork. His work may occasionally depart from abstraction and venture into the figurative realm during moments of ludicity, raising questions of humanitarian critique without losing the essence of his art.
A little before the pandemic, he used his sketchbook to put his art on paper, trying to go back to his origins. He extrapolates his concept of his art, dedicating himself at the beginning to these studies of his unconscious to move to a larger format and experiment with canvases with vibrant and primary colors, always reinforcing the contour with sinuous black lines of different thicknesses.
With the passage of time, maturing to connect with more introspective and conceptual issues.
Participation in the catalog of artists participating in the Bela Bienal 2023 in Finland.
