Welcome to The Magical Journey, a cosmic and delirious trip through the universe of Sergio Mora, where color becomes language and fantasy a fundamental truth.
In this exhibition, Mora unveils a world of supersonic visions, psychedelic creatures, sacred tiles, and interplanetary dances. With influences ranging from medieval frescoes to pop comics, sacred art to lysergic imagination, his works act as portals to other dimensions-places where anything is possible.
In a cynical world, his fantasy is a subversive act. In a system that demands productivity, efficiency, and clarity, he offers mystery, delirium, and excess.
The works-ranging from oil paintings like Survivors of Jungle Paradise and The Queen of Supersonic Visions, to glazed tiles like El poder del ahora (The Power of Now)-are authentic portals. Characters float, dance, transform; creatures with comic-book souls and oracle eyes speak to us from landscapes that are as tropical as they are metaphysical.
There is something deeply spiritual in this explosion of fantasy: a kind of fluorescent pantheism where everything-the jungle, the mutant, the galaxy, and the bubblegum-participates in the same divine spark.
SERGIO MORA IN TAIPEI - ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Mora is an artist fully of the now, though he seems to have arrived from a collective dream we shared between the 1950s and a pop sci-fi future that never happened. What Mora does is 21st-century visual alchemy: he gathers the cultural remnants of various eras and reorganizes them into a baroque explosion of the collective subconscious. And in that mix-which seems like pure play-there is a fierce critique: of the canon, the market, and uniformity. His painting is a joyful manifesto against the death of wonder.
Sergio Mora's major contribution to the world is his revaluation of fantasy as a transformative force. His work defends imagination, visual pleasure, and desire as legitimate tools for thought, paths to knowledge, and engines of beauty.
What makes his art unique is his deeply personal visual language: an alchemy of Mediterranean surrealism, cosmic eroticism, Iberian pop, classical painting, and the universal kitsch imaginary. His art is both positive and necessary because it creates radically free symbolic spaces. Where others offer diagnosis, Mora offers vision. Where others illustrate collapse, he proposes alternate worlds.
His works are not mirrors of the world, but portals to the possible. And in an era saturated with images, this capacity to create his own cosmogony is pure visual alchemy. There is something radical in his painting: he does not fear beauty, play, or ornament. He turns what many consider superficial into profound experience. He merges Mediterranean surrealism with intergalactic kitsch and transforms it all into a singular visual system-unrepeatable, recognizable, and contagious.
The Magical Journey does not take us far. It takes us inward. To that place where imagination still has the power to transform everything. This exhibition is a celebration of art as revelation, play, and enchantment. Get ready to step through the mirror.
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Sergio Mora
Born in Barcelona in 1975, Sergio Mora -also known as Magicomora- is a multidisciplinary artist who has woven a visual universe where surrealism intertwines with pop culture, mythology, and an overflowing imagination. Trained at the Escola Llotja in Barcelona, his work challenges the boundaries between the highbrow and the popular, the classical and the contemporary, the dreamlike and the everyday.
His style, described as "pop magical realism," manifests in paintings, murals, illustrations, ceramics, and comics that inhabit their own world: Moraland. In this visual realm, luchadores, astronauts, ancient gods, and cartoon characters coexist in scenes that swing between humor, sensuality, and cultural critique.
Over the course of his career, Mora has collaborated with renowned figures such as chef José Andrés and designer Philippe Starck, creating murals for restaurants like Bazaar Mar in Miami and Cleo in New York-venues awarded with international design prizes. In 2016, his work was recognized with a Latin Grammy for Best Packaging Design for the album El poeta Halley by Love of Lesbian.
Beyond the gastronomic and musical spheres, he has written and illustrated books such as El Niño Rock, Las legendarias aventuras de Chiquito, La chica de Serie-B, among others, and has exhibited his work in cities such as Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Rome, Miami, New York, and Mexico City.
Critics have praised his ability to merge the fantastic with the mundane. The newspaper El Mundo described him as a representative of "magical surrealism," while El País dubbed him "the patriarch of Spanish pop surrealism."
Sergio Mora continues to explore new artistic frontiers, bringing his unique vision to projects that span exhibitions, books, installations, and collaborations with brands such as Gucci-always with the intention of inviting the viewer to dream and question reality. He currently lives and works in Madrid.