Juca Maximo

“I seek with my art to bring some uncomfortable interior, a feeling, something that the person looks and feels that there is something else in there.” (Juca Máximo)

Plastic Artist, Art Director, Illustrator, Designer and Musician. His work consists of various techniques: oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor, engraving, ink, pencil, digital art, clay sculpture and digital sculpture.

Known for his work in illustration and publicity, he has gained a great deal of notoriety in the artistic world, mainly abroad, being published in large portals, magazines and winning prizes in international art shows, illustration and drawing.

The artist can be defined as a “contemporary expressionist”: his work is dramatic, depicting an explosion of strong feelings and colors.

His works usually consist of fine pencil or pen traits, complete with vigorous strokes and intense use of the impasto, on which he implants shocks of color and aggressiveness, contrasting with the delicacy of his portraits.

They are feelings, secret traits and aggression on the screen.

The portraits express great absences that pass in our lives, such as the absence of love, love for oneself, as the absence of the freedom to be who we are, to think and to act, by the absence of the freedom to be ourselves. In addition to the absence of identity, comes with the human faults that we have in the course of our lives. Absence of maturity, character and personality. These are photos that express absences and search for something that fills us. They are intimate portraits, which show that there is something else in there, even with some voids.

Dramatic and extremely sensitive work. This is the concept of Juca Máximo, a Ceará artist who has been standing out in the international scene with a “contemporary expressionist” style. Talent is spread by other segments of the creative industry, so the artist also acts as art director, illustrator, designer and musician, which brings versatility and completeness to his work, full of delicacy.

Fine strokes in pencil or pen come together with vigorous strokes, imparting total personality to each piece. The impact, a technique that highlights texture and relief through the thick layers of paint under the canvas, has recurring use in his work to take advantage of the shock of color and a certain aggressiveness, contrasting with the lightness of the portraits.