Juca Maximo

Juca Maximo

  • Joined: July 10, 2025
  • Articles: 165

The marks that build us

Contemporary artist studio with large canvas drawings in black ink on table, overhead view of artwork in progress, Traces series by Brazilian artist Juca Máximo

The marks that build us In the silence of the studio, when the canvases are still open on the table and the line remains raw, it becomes possible to notice something beyond the painting itself. There are moments when the…

Featured in an Independent Art Portal in Russia

International press feature highlighting Brazilian artist and sculptor Juca Máximo, presenting his expressive works and conceptual exploration of emotional intensity, femininity, and contemporary art, published on an independent Russian art platform.

Джука Максимо (Juca Maximo) — художник и скульптор из Бразилии, чьи разнообразные работы выставлялись на национальном уровне, а также в Канаде, Соединенных Штатах, Тайване, Индии, Италии и Франции. Очарованный женской загадочностью, его экспрессионистские композиции сосредоточены вокруг изображения женской иконографии, воплощающей…

The State of Potency

Juca Máximo painting an Energy series artwork, expressing a state of emotional potency and physical gesture inspired by Nietzsche’s philosophy of action and inner force.

A State of Energy  It is not about the place where the work is made.It is about the state reached while making it. When painting a work from the Energy series, the gesture stops being a simple action and becomes…

Before the year turns

Artist Juca Máximo painting in his studio, exploring gesture, silence and the power to act through contemporary expressive painting.

Before the year turns Every true relationship is born from an invisible exchange. Not only from direct encounters, but from those subtle moments when something crosses us without asking permission. A gaze that slows us down. A gesture that lingers.…

Where the work becomes weight

Artista visual em pé no centro de um galpão industrial vazio, com os braços cruzados, cercado por estruturas metálicas, aço e materiais brutos, em um espaço amplo e escuro que remete a força, escala e processo criativo. Contemporary visual artist standing at the center of an empty industrial warehouse, arms crossed, surrounded by metal structures, steel and raw materials, in a large and dark space that evokes strength, scale and the artistic process.

Where the work becomes weight This image was taken inside a dormant industrial structure.A place once designed for production, now silent.I chose it not for its aesthetics, but for its memory. My studio is not defined by walls, tools, or…

The Moment Before the Gesture

Man standing in a dim studio holding a paint can in front of multiple blank canvases leaning against the wall, with soft side lighting and studio equipment around, representing the beginning of an artistic creation process.

The Moment Before the Gesture There is a silent, powerful moment that precedes every artwork. Before color touches the surface, before gesture finds the canvas, there is a need—emotional, philosophical, deeply human—to transform thought into presence. Each new series is…