The Nature of Gesture

FEMA Gallery – Cascais, 2025
By Marcelo Lamarca
Curated by: Cynthia Neimi

Ancestry and sensitivity are the basis of Marcelo Lamarca’s work. For the artist, art is not just a celebration of nature; it is an invitation to feel life in all its fullness, a reminder that even in chaos, there is harmony and that every detail, no matter how small, carries with it the power to transform the whole. 

The colors he uses – vibrant, bold, almost pulsating – are a reflection of the vital energy he feels when he creates, expressing the dynamic balance of life, where chaos meets harmony. The result is a living universe, a portal to a place where the natural and the imaginary meet. 

Artistic creation overflows with a visceral restlessness, as if the deepest feelings were leaves shaken by the wind. Poetry shines through in the fine line between what is experienced and what is admired. In his works, there is not just a portrait of nature or a confession of the intimate. 

There is a dialogue. 

“The Nature of Gesture” reflects years of elaboration. In an intimate dialectic, which traverses the territory of encounters and also of dualities – the inner feeling and the cosmos that surrounds all beings, the great mother nature. 

This work refers to a fluid bridge, where interiority reveals itself as a reflection of the universal vastness, and the contemplated nature becomes an extension of the body and soul. And, when observing this art, it is as if we become accomplices in this conversation. 

If the gesture comes before speech, nature is closer to touch than to words. 

The act of making movement is the premise for human development, and this comes from the desire to be. We recognize in the representation of the movements of nature metaphors of our own states of mind. 

Thus, the dialectic does not end with the artist’s creation; it continues in the encounter with the spectator, where the universal and the particular meet again – and transform themselves once again.