Néstor Sanmiguel Diest: Días de niebla

Días de niebla (Days of Fog) features approximately 30 works produced between 1999 and 2024. The core of the exhibition is marked by the use, initially experimental, of the line as both a formal and conceptual element; by painting straight lines with a minimum distance between them on flat forms, Sanmiguel Diest achieves an effect similar to that of the velatura technique used in Baroque and Renaissance painting, generating the sensation of vibration on flat images. That is, through repetition, colors and shapes acquire rhythm, not only visually but also referring to musical structures frequently used by the artist. In this sense, the word “fog” refers mainly to the illusory depth and movement generated paradoxically by precise patterns and uniform surfaces.

 

Néstor Sanmiguel Diest lives and worksin Aranda de Duero, Spain. He has had solo exhibitions at venues such as Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (2022); MUSAC, León (2007); Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2022); CAC, Burgos (2018); or Centro Cultural de España, Buenos Aires (2014), to mention a few. He has also participated in group shows at the Sculpture Center, New York (2008); Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (2016); Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2015); MUSAC, León (2019); Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid (2021), or Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico (2010).

 

His work is part of important collections such as Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid); MACBA (Barcelona); Banco de España Collection (Madrid); MUSAC (León); Unión Fenosa Museum (A Coruña); Barrié Foundation (A Coruña); The Power Plant Collection (Toronto); DKV Collection (Valencia); Caja de Burgos Contemporary Art Collection; La Rioja Museum (Logroño); or Rafael Tous d’Art Contemporani Foundation (Barcelona), among others.