The artist behind the vivid one-of-a-kind illustrations (made with acrylic paint and marker brush) at the COP30 Cities & Regions Hub is Daniel Jacaré, a trained architect and urban planner, who “invites us to see the city not only as a collection of beautiful monuments, but as a living, pulsating organism full of stories.”
Jacaré develops compositions that “combine the language of sketches, the intensity of lines, and the urban and landscape context. His free, loose, and overlapping strokes and brushstrokes create a dynamic representation with considerable expressiveness. His works move between the intuitive subjectivity of the lines and the figurative nature of the composition, through varying levels of simplification and sophistication.”
Watch the Cities & Regions Hub come to life on Instagram.
According to his website, Jacaré’s early work was marked by architectural sketches, but gradually gave way to a freer and more visceral expression, with the people who inhabited his architectural drawings gaining increasing prominence.
In his works, Jacaré presents us with a “universe where the city becomes the stage for our daily lives. His strokes, previously confined to the precise lines of the projects, now expand and are directed by the people who pass through, work, and interact there.” From a unique perspective, Jacaré reveals the true beauty of the city: the inhabitants that bring real meaning to the urban fabric.
Learn more about Jacaré’s work on the web and on Instagram.
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