Biografia
Marcia de Moraes (1981, São Carlos. Lives and works in São Paulo).
In Marcia de Moraes’s drawings, abstraction and figuration merge, while complementing each other. She presents invented landscapes and floras that exist in a liquid and fluid universe. This unreal environment develops into organic forms, filled with folds and re-enterings. Her drawings reveal a subtle equilibrium between lines, traces, superimpositions, details and color fields.
She currently works with big format drawings: extremely impactful explosions of color, in which she conjugates small forms drawn with a simple pencil together with many colored pencil forms. Graphic elements constantly repeat themselves and occupy the entire surface of the paper, as if insinuating an existence beyond.
The pictorial reference of her work is evidenced; “I use the color pencil-made stains as if they were paint, combining drawing and painting in the composition and exploiting the delicate frontier that exists between these two languages”.
Marcia de Moraes has a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) and MA from the same Institution. Since 2008 she takes part of the Ateliê Fidalga in São Paulo. In 2009, she had her first solo exhibition at the Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, also in São Paulo. In 2010 she had a solo show at Galeria Leme, São Paulo and did a residency at at La Cour Dieu in La Roche-en-Brenil, France.
The artist regularly participates in group shows in Brazil and abroad, among which stand out: Ateliê Fidalga no Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2010, Edital de Exposições do MARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, 2009 and the fifth edition of the show Paralela, A Contemplação do Mundo, São Paulo.
In 2011 she had her first solo show in Europe. She exhibited a group of drawings at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa in Lisbon.
