Visual and multimedia artist Jesús de Miguel lives on the island and so knows Ibiza well. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca, he has studied the anthropology and creative processes of art, animation and 3D design. 

He is particularly interested in painting, and explores its various facets, from purely pictorial art to technologically based artistic expression.  

The visual poetry of his work swims in an ocean of abstractions where the defined becomes less clear-cut and forms merge until they are reborn with a life of their own that goes beyond the limits of what is expected.

The Birth of the Emoticon. Pictorial and sculptural installation. Variable measures. 2022.

Following the line of research that he carried out during his residency in 2016, Jesús de Miguel traces a unique itinerary in the history of the symbol. A path that takes you from the cave paintings to the current emoticons. His neo-pictograms respond to the contemporary collapse and the limitation of reducing the expression of emotions or complex concepts to simple icons. The artist creates his own symbols, he does not reproduce them, and offers them to the viewer so that he can give them meaning. An artist with his own original semantics who gives the public the task of actively imagining a world.