Born into a family closely connected to the arts—his father is painter Carlos Morago Fernández, while his grandfather worked as a copyist at the Museo del Prado—David Morago grew up surrounded by drawings, canvases, and pigments, developing a deep artistic vocation from an early age. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and began exhibiting his work in 1996, presenting it at galleries and art fairs in Spain and internationally, in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Montreal, Miami, and New York. His work has received numerous awards and is held in prominent public and private collections.
Throughout his career, Morago has moved from a poetic and intimate form of realism—defined by calm, silence, and a nostalgic gaze toward nature—to a more recent period marked by formal and technical experimentation. His early universe, populated by animals, landscapes, and still lifes that evoked his childhood and the family studio, was characterized by meticulous observation of fauna and flora, balancing scientific precision with visual lyricism.
In his current Glitch series, created for SOLO CONTEMPORARY, the artist enters a completely different territory: a visual language influenced by comics, urban graphics, and contemporary visual culture. Color takes center stage, while forms—fragmented, incomplete, and sometimes typographic—no longer seek to tell a story, but rather to provoke. Morago explores new techniques such as airbrushing, spray paint, and pigment transfer, approaching them with an almost playful sense of curiosity. His work, once analytical, has now become sensory, open-ended, and ambiguous.
What once offered certainties now poses questions: images suspended between the real and the imaginary, in which the viewer is no longer seeking to understand, but simply allowing themselves to be affected.
