ArtEssence by Miguel Guía
“Art is idea, evolution and identity. The rest is emotion, sensitivity, trade, technique, ingenuity, technology and skill”
Discover the story of a boy who grew up in the family sculpture workshop in Madrid, and his talent evolved to become a Bestseller in digital Marketplaces that bring together the best international art galleries with a unique, challenging and constantly revaluing artistic idea.
ArtEssence by Miguel Guía
An artist who challenges you to play with spaces and decipher the essence of the beauty of his work through a singular artistic proposal in full bloom: Miguel Guía's ArtEssence.
Miguel Guía
The artist of essences.
The artist of essence and spaces.
Miguel Guía was born in Madrid on October 29, 1960.
Growing and evolving with art.
We can appreciate in Miguel Guía various stages in his always integrating evolution, in which continuity is not lost or previous achievements are discarded, but rather they remain and continue to bear fruit in parallel with the development of new forms of expression, until reaching and consolidating a own and recognizable style that he calls “ArtEssence“.
The call to be a unique artist
Finding your path means making mistakes many times, and investigating and evolving your preferred artistic languages, until you achieve it and develop your own. Avoiding siren songs so as not to fall into the easy money of artistic commissions without their own style, is another of the traps that had to be solved in this journey of becoming an artist with a personal stamp and also a recognized one.
Artists like Picasso, the greatest artist of the 20th century, begin to mark part of a recognizable style in Miguel Guía, emphasizing proposing something different based on the essence of the forms, because if Picasso did anything it was break the rules.
Discovering in depth the work of Antony Gomley, Manolo Valdés and Antonio López, help him focus on his style and ask himself questions like… “why has cubism been closed?“
Cubist abstraction, the beginnings of an artistic creator
The vanguard of cubism in sculpture, in parallel to the strong influence that Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso exercise more specifically from the graphic work in this form of expression, move him to create an outstanding series of works with which he deals and manages to respond to the challenge. to create in that language.
And from that previous question of why cubism had been closed, his first cubist artwork emerged (with great inspiration from Manolo Valdés, with his rarities and the minimalist concept of the Meninas, and the own story of Miguel selling Meninas figures in the past); The title was “Air and metal”, with the idea of moving to cubist planes and maintaining the strength of the silhouette.
He also explores this concept pictorially, with the work “Three-Dimensional Cubist Harlequin“.
His success in sales and galleries that appreciate his style began with these works, so he continued in this line, and his second cubist work, “Harmony”, was born.
When on a trip to Paris, at the Louvre, he falls in love with how “The Victory of Samothrace” breaks the air, and he also wants to transfer it to cubist planes while maintaining the harmony that characterizes it, and hence its title.
His success in sales and galleries that appreciate his style began with these artworks, so he continued in this line, and his second cubist work, “Harmony”, was born when, on a trip to Paris, at the Louvre, he fell in love with how “The Victory of Samothrace” breaks the air, and he also wants to transfer it to cubist planes, maintaining the harmony that characterizes it, and hence its title.
Transferring “El Guernica” to a sculpture was the next project, maintaining the essence of the cry of horror of war, but with a three-dimensional sculpture; “The Cubist Horse Guernica” was the name that gave this work its title, a clear homage to Picasso, who already with this painting presented an evolution of a work from the 16th century…
Navigating through Realism
He continued years with cubism and also began his journey in realism, but with his imprint, breaking the forms and maintaining the essence, with his emblematic work “Calm and silence“. Titles such as “Reflexion” and “Friendship” follow, the first steps of the Realismo Series, with which Miguel begins the reverse path of his previous stage.
Once the path is visualized, there are no doubts, there is only one course, a creative commitment to the essence of his works and how they break the air that surrounds him, there are no more distractions.
And in this same line, he identifies with Kintsugi, the Japanese art that repairs what is damaged by exalting imperfections, with that idea of breaking and creating art.
The approach, the Magical Figuration
Already in his sculptural maturity, he surprises us with the work “Essence of Male Youth“, the first work of the ensemble that he will later call the “Essences” collection. In it, Miguel evolves using an expressive language in which, starting from formal reality, he subtracts elements in search of the essence and creates spaces that invite the viewer to feel the emotion of participating and taking part in the creative process.
His second work in this collection inquires about classical art, about a Greek sculpture that turns it into contemporary art. And that is where “Classic Essence Elena” was born, continuing with the use of gaps and ruptures in forms.
Magical figuration and realism dialogue in this way in Miguel’s creative process, so influenced by his admired Antonio López, as a thesis and antithesis called to be a constant in the successive stages that the author covers. Alternating and sometimes overlapping in time without one definitively prevailing over the other.
As always in life, the road brings you travel companions who put sticks in your wheels or directly want to appropriate your ideas, especially when they do not leave you indifferent and cause a sensation as with this series of “Essences“; The important thing is to separate from toxic people as soon as possible, not stray from the path and be faithful to a unique style that is difficult to copy in the field of sculpture.
The leap into the digital market and a new concept of artist.
Getting out of some spheres, to make his work available to the great digital public through an exclusive contract with an online gallery in those fledgling years, and which eventually became his true platform for the sale of all his art.
And this change of focus not only had to do with a strategic change in the distribution channel, but also a philosophical one, getting off a pedestal and connecting the artist directly with the online market, attracting followers of his work and democratizing his art. .
And this change of focus and division of his artistic work, in the end, was the basis of his subsequent success, reaching and making many users from multiple countries fall in love, which perhaps due to the conventional channels of this tortuous world of art, would have been more difficult for him. get.
Not always what the artist imagines can be done with the technology of the moment. An inner struggle that he overcomes with his creativity, adapting to emerging technologies.
But an unexpected vision problem in one eye (retinal detachment) with the possible loss of vision, puts the artist at a crossroads, leading her to question everything, including being able to continue developing her career. Thanks to public health and a friend, she manages to overcome the disease after a year, and she resumes her artistic path with more force.
Coming from cubism, and navigating realism, it culminates with Essence, and thanks to its non-conformity, it continues to seek to break the air, (resuming cubism) even reaching cubist decomposition, creating its own style, “three-dimensional pixelization“. with the work “Single whip”.
The success of his proposal around the world stems from his commitment to and close collaboration with the online world and his agreement with the Buysculpture art gallery, which catapulted him into this large market that did not resist his art, beginning to generate followers and what is most important, buyers of your work in many countries, the best medicine for moments of doubt.
Sculpture <Pixelated Horse>.
One of his most recognized pictorial works is “cubing cubism”, where the famous Guernica maintains the language of pixels.
In painting he navigates in three directions: Cubism, Realism and Impressionism.
The recognition of a unique style: ArtEssence
Well, we see how the defined form, stamped and stamped forever, now becomes fluid, as Zygmunt Bauman would say, and is freed to manifest itself in a multitude of languages and expressive ways that Miguel knows how to use in creative plenitude to reach the goal of all art: the incessant search for the essence of beauty.
There is no doubt that Miguel has a very particular style and despite his complexity, a creative concept prevails that seems to encompass his entire proposal, giving rise to a genre that he himself has baptized as “ArtEssence“.
Playing with the viewer’s mind to be able to understand the essence of the work, decipher it, challenging them to fill in the spaces and seek the complicity of the observer of their creation…
Playing with the viewer’s mind to be able to understand the essence of the work, decipher it, challenging them to fill in the spaces and seek the complicity of the observer of their creation…
Although it has never wanted to lose its essence of being able to sell affordable art directly to the user, and at the same time, being able to progress and offer art to other types of audiences, perhaps with other needs and demands, such as corporate art on commission, sales to other galleries, etc. dealers, institutions, etc., in a line that Miguel Guía has called “Great Works”.
If you want to review and purchase his work, you can visit the online art gallery, Buysculpture, with which he has an exclusive contract and has been loyal to him for years, since he was the one who gave him the opportunity and opened the doors to the general public. digital.
His artistic culmination “ArtEssence” will not stop there, it will evolve, so we recommend you to be very aware of everything that may be to come, that will come…
Did you stay curious…?
A sphere that will travel the world reflecting the essence and soul of the city.
