marcel lisboa's digital collages interweave ornamentation with avant-garde

marcel lisboa’s digital collages interweave ornamentation with avant-garde
(above) ‘a heart on a famous hill’
all images courtesy of marcel lisboa

with a reflection on the renaissance and baroque periods, graphic designer marcel lisboa crafts intricate digital collages characterized by an ethereal color palette, dramatic chiaroscuro, and expressive scenography. through each of his compositions, the são paulo-based artist invites viewers into a surreal world that reveals a distinct storyline and subject, encompassed by vivid and illustrative motifs. images of mountains, botanical species, human portraits, body parts, animals and trees are overlapped and intersected to create completely unique landscapes that blend reality and imagination. lisboa interweaves the avant-garde traditions of the early-twentieth century with the carefully articulated ornamentation of the baroque, drawing from the narratives of western imperialism to an imagined pre-colonial innocence. 

‘symmetry’

‘between the lines’ detail

‘across the universe’

‘untitled’

‘the connector’

‘eyes behind the wall’

‘between the lines’

‘golden ritual’

‘waking light’

‘posthuman’

‘having a blast’ detail 

‘in absentia’