Cássio Markowski Brazil, 1972

Présentation

The Lisbon-based Brazilian artist Cássio Markowski mainly works across drawing and painting, besides exploring video and installation as means of expansion of his practice. The artist’s production encompasses a process of documentation on different socio-cultural aspects of Afro-Brazilian history. This approach relies on a constant search in archives, image databases and flea markets from where the artist collects ancient books, photographs, illustrations, newspapers, advertisements or old family albums. Markowski’s visual universe, simultaneously auto-biographic and fictional, political and poetic, theatrical and oneiric fuses his own personal memories with collective experiences and trauma, while often referencing religious iconography, especially the Brazilian syncretic version of Catholicism. 

 

Concerned with issues of cultural identity and almost lost traditions, Cássio Markowski’s work emphasises the tenuous remaining links between past and present. The artist’s distinctive approach intertwines a search for beauty, elegance and delicacy with concerns linked to socio-political tensions and dynamics. Through his refined and multi-layered images, which simultaneously evoke fauna and flora, historical realities, collective aspirations and inner visions, the artist sparks a renewed perception on the human relationship with nature and the living world at large, while highlighting and enhancing their aesthetic, spiritual and universal value.

 

Cássio Markowski completed a BA in Visual Arts in the Arts Center of the University of Santa Catarina State (Brazil) in 2007. He also completed an MA in Research and Creation (2011) and in Performing Arts and Sciences (2010) at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). After working as a scenographer and professor of performative arts in the Basque Country and as an illustrator in Poland, Markowski settled in Portugal where he entirely dedicated himself to his artistic practice. His work has been displayed in collective and individual shows in Brazil, Spain and Portugal. In 2023, Cássio was the winner of the Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize.

 

Available Works

Œuvres
  • A Cura
    Cássio Markowski
    A Cura, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    135 x 100 cm
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  • A Cura II
    Cássio Markowski
    A Cura II, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    120 x 95 cm
  • A Menina e a Garça - Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória
    Cássio Markowski
    A Menina e a Garça - Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    80 x 70 cm
  • As Leitoras #2
    Cássio Markowski
    As Leitoras #2, 2022
    Vinyl paint, graphite pencil and gouache on linen
    180 x 140 x 2 cm; (framed) 185 x 145 x 4 cm
  • Búzio, Series: Ori/Santa Cabeça
    Cássio Markowski
    Búzio, Series: Ori/Santa Cabeça , 2024
    Graphite, gouache, color pencil and vinyl paint on linen
    150 x 100 cm
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  • Cadeirinha de Arruar – Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória
    Cássio Markowski
    Cadeirinha de Arruar – Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    80 x 70 cm
    Vendu
  • Estrela
    Cássio Markowski
    Estrela, 2024
    Sculptural object made with graphite, vinyl paint, varnish, demolition wood and found objects
    87 cm x 25, 5 cm
  • Guerreira e Egungun
    Cássio Markowski
    Guerreira e Egungun, 2023
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    120 x 95 cm / 125 x 100 x 3,5 cm (framed)
  • Katendê
    Cássio Markowski
    Katendê, 2023
    Drawings with graphite, vinyl paint, gouache and colored pencil on wood
    60 cm diameter
  • Labalábá
    Cássio Markowski
    Labalábá, 2024
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    180 x 150 cm
  • Lagartonça
    Cássio Markowski
    Lagartonça, 2024
    Graphite, gouache, color pencil and vinyl paint on linen
    150 x 100 cm
    Vendu
  • Menino Passarinho
    Cássio Markowski
    Menino Passarinho, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    70 x 80 cm
    Vendu
  • O Galo, Serie: Oferenda
    Cássio Markowski
    O Galo, Serie: Oferenda, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    120 x 95 cm
  • O Menino do Tambor - Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória
    Cássio Markowski
    O Menino do Tambor - Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    80 x 70 cm
  • O Menino e a Máscara – Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória
    Cássio Markowski
    O Menino e a Máscara – Serie: Dobras do Tempo e da Memória , 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    80 x 70 cm
  • O Pombo, Serie: Oferenda
    Cássio Markowski
    O Pombo, Serie: Oferenda, 2025
    Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen
    120 x 95 cm
  • O Som que vem de longe
    Cássio Markowski
    O Som que vem de longe, 2024
    Graphite, coloured pencil and gouache on linen
    120 x 95 cm
  • Osória
    Cássio Markowski
    Osória, 2025
    Graphite, gouache and vinyl paint on linen cut out and fixed with entomology pins on panel.
    80 x 80 cm
  • Samambaia, Series: Ori/Santa Cabeça
    Cássio Markowski
    Samambaia, Series: Ori/Santa Cabeça , 2024
    Graphite, gouache, color pencil and vinyl paint on linen
    146 x 95,5 cm
  • Untitled, Series: Natureza Morta
    Cássio Markowski
    Untitled, Series: Natureza Morta, 2024
    Charcoal, graphite, gouache, dry pastel and vinyl paint on linen
    120 x 95 cm
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  • Sagrado Coração
    Cássio Markowski
    Sagrado Coração, 2022
    Giclée print on Canson Arches BFK Rives White 310g paper
    55,5 x 42 cm