Álvaro Marzán's artistic work centers around painting, focusing on universal themes such as the search for identity and the intrinsic human need to understand their nature and question the ultimate meaning of the world around them. From a deep commitment to painting and contemporary creation, he offers a vision that straddles the physical and metaphysical—extravagant, mysterious, and passionately unreal. His work presents an ephemeral reflection of the invisible through its distorted surfaces, allowing viewers a glimpse into the intangible aspects of existence.

Marzán's images emerge from the subconscious, which he views as an abstract space, the realm of pre-language where things lack fixed meanings, and imagination plays a fundamental role. He sees this space as akin to the way children engage with their environment by inventing their own rules. Here, elements continually transform into one another, carrying symbolic significance: the body, the feminine and masculine, the animal, nature, and consciousness. Together, these elements weave a dynamic, allegorical pictorial narrative. Through an earnest process of exploration, Marzán seeks to uncover real, authentic elements within this abstract space.

As a material, painting holds a special place for Marzán, as it allows him to create scenarios and worlds with their own internal logic—fully coherent, self-contained universes that mirror our own ability to construct personal realities. In this way, his work also reclaims painting as a powerful tool for contemporary creation. Through the interplay of material, form, and color, his paintings assert their semantic value, establishing a visual language that communicates non-verbally with striking efficiency. Marzán sees painting as an extraordinarily poetic medium, capable of engaging the viewer's emotional mind while conveying deep, thought-provoking ideas.