Marcos Garcia has a career spanning over 40 years as a visual artist, including restoration, decoration and artistic painting, through a vast and diverse education.

 

He began his studies in the 1980s with the visual artist Alberto Teixeira. A year later, he moved to Paris, where he studied and worked for 10 years. There, he began his artistic training with the visual artist Luís Ansa, a professor at the Institut National de Restauration du Louvre, and with the set designer Roberto Plate, participating in the design and execution of sets for French theaters, such as the Théâtre du Rond-Point and the Paris Opera. He also studied and worked with the Italian master Augusto Pavanel.

 

In 1986, he graduated in Arts from the École Superieur de Peinture Van der Kelen, in Brussels.

 

In 1990, after several group exhibitions, he held his first solo exhibition at the Relais Culturel de Chaillot, in Paris. Returning to Brazil in 1991, he settled in Campinas and began working actively with decorative art in residential and commercial properties. He also worked on some important restoration projects, including the restoration of the panel in the Ponte Preta grand hall, the Casa de Saúde chapel, the headquarters of the Carlos Gomes Musical Corporation, the sculpture collection of the 11th Brigade of the Brazilian Army and the Iracema farm in Campinas. Since 2013, he has dedicated himself exclusively to his personal artistic production, developing, in particular, works using the dry pastel technique. His works today are, therefore, the result of a long and rich career as an artist, combining different knowledge and practices accumulated throughout his years of study and training.