Sergio Miguel builds hybrid worlds where beauty bleeds into the grotesque, drawing energy from colonial legacies and contemporary myth-making. His paintings channel a Baroque sensibility—rich with chiaroscuro, ornate detailing, and a shadowy potency—infused with subversive, erotic strangeness. His imagery emerges from the tensions of colonial-era casta paintings and mythic iconographies—reimagined through modern queer urgency. Figures verge on the animalistic or angelic, poised at the threshold of transformation, challenging rigid identity markers and inviting psychological ambiguity. Miguel’s compositions often feature young men alongside fantastical beasts—Minotaurs, demonic horses, otherworldly hybrids—set within stark, decay-ridden industrial backdrops that amplify the tension between flesh and ruin. Anchored in art-history reference points from Goya and medieval bestiaries to Colonial Mexican portraiture and New Objectivity, his technique blends precise draftsmanship with visceral textures. Blood, bone, flesh—and the wound—carry symbolic as well as tactile weight. Miguel’s practice interrogates the legacies of oppression, sensuality, and transformation. His paintings pulse with formal elegance and uncanny dissonance, crafting a visual language where identity becomes fluid, and myth feels urgently contemporary. ...
