Miki Lugo

The work of Miki Lugo (Mexico City, 1973) is peppered with sounds and intensities.
With a solid background as a professional musician, for more than a decade he has sought to capture in strokes, textures, and colors the harmonious order of sounds, the rhythm of perspective, and human imperfection that transmutes into beauty. In a constant attempt, not to migrate from the ear to the eye, but to integrate both disciplines, music and visual arts, into a dimension in which both coexist. With their colors and dissonances, their harmonies and chiaroscuro.

In each piece, he uses line and color as notes, chords, or polyrhythms. The artist explores how perspective can create not only spatial depth, but also temporal rhythm. His compositions offer dynamism and fluidity. They invite the viewer on a journey that is both intellectual and sensory, demonstrating that the beauty of a Bach fugue, a Chopin waltz, a jazz improvisation, or a Cuban guaguancó can be both auditory and visual.

His pictorial work is a conscious manifestation of synesthesia, seeking to translate the mathematical rigidity inherent in music into fluidity, accents, pitches, and dissonances. He uses these elements to give organic form to bodies and visual structures that t...