Juan Diego Miguel

I'm a figurative sculptor with the soul of a painter.

That’s how Juan Diego Miguel describes himself. His bas-relief sculpture, created by the nature of his materials, has an apollonian and classic spirit, very much influenced by the vanguards, baroque accents and renaissance roots. His search is wide-ranging, but is defined on the paradoxical, the poetic and satiric. Juan Diego distances from the reflexive nature of art, and in his artworks he looks for something more sensitive. In the own artist words:

I do not understand the art as a consumable, but as an entity that has to be alive in a hundred years…

Biography

Juan Diego de Miguel Carpintero (Juan Diego Miguel) was born in Débanos, Soria (Spain) on the 27th of April, 1955. He was the local administrator, Mr. Esteban de Miguel - A sensitive man with a big passion for music - and his wife Maria Luisa´s, 4th child.

He studied architecture at the E.T.S. Architecture of Madrid, and practised his painting skills at the painter´s Luis Herrera Atelier. On his 3rd career year, he left Architecture, as he was convinced Art was the path he wanted to follow. He studied fine arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid, and after graduating, he has dedicated his whole life to develop his own vision in art.

After several individual exhibitions, in 1991 he joined the Maeght Gallery in Barcelona, until its closure.

He has public large-format artworks built in Navarra, La Rioja and Madrid and many of his artworks are included in art collections all over the world.

Art

He has been influenced by Matisse, Picasso and the African art. In the recent years, he has developed an interest in the ancient cultures, mainly Persian and Egyptian.

He uses many different materials, invents new techniques and plays with humor and visual paradoxes, creating a series of bas-reliefs as a result of his assembly Technique.

It can be said that Juan Diego Miguel is a sculptor with the soul of a painter.

Throughout his career, he has had stages marked by repeated topics or techniques. He started as a surrealistic painter. Later he added the matter in his artworks developing a more clear path into sculpture. In the early 90s, the main topic of his art revolved around numbers. At the beginning of the Millennium he was focused on the feminine geometric nudity. Afterwards, he had stages where using random and chaotic colours as a base was his main topic, and in the recent years he has been working with frames and puzzles.