Miguel Milló
Sonora, Mexico (1966)
His inspiration comes from the origin of humanity. In his pieces, we can appreciate the harmony of the human being with nature, each artwork captures the powerful beauty of plants, flowers, clay, and organic materials. Naked bodies are his canvas, where he brings his creations to life, capturing repeatable instants through his magic eye a unique and fun. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, Havana, Manila, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Sao Pablo, Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende, and Cancun. It is part of the SAT (Tax Administration Service) “Horizons” collection, which is currently traveling around the world. His collection "Origins" has been exhibited throughout the Asian continent, through the SRE(Secretariat of Foreign Affairs). Chosen by the United Nations and the SRE as the image of the "20th anniversary of the Beijing International Convention" defending women’s rights and has been distributed in 2015 in all Mexican embassies and consulates in the world.
Miguel Milló lives and works in Mexico City.
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The source of his inspiration is the origin of humanity. Seeking to reflect harmony in the human being and nature through the powerful beauty of plants, flowers, clay, and organic materials that the artist intertwines with the sensuality of the human figure.
His passion for art, photography and nature, accumulated since his childhood, awakened in him a magical eye that translates into a mixture of fine arts that gives life to a fascinating world in each of his works.
His pieces are poetic allusions to the primal goddess who personifies Mother Earth, from which all divine races arise; his philosophy is based on respect for others. When covered with mud, the skin loses its original color; features and physical characteristics are blurred to give life to a human being. It is the moment when the person ceases to be aware of his position in the system of which he is a part and begins to act accordingly with this new vision. The human being is not only another piece, but its raw material is the same as that of the rest of the pieces. Mere clay molds endowed with life.
Milló builds complex compositions in which painting, sculpture, light, and shadow play are amalgamated to create subtle and poetic atmospheres. In his images, the human being is a metaphor for the fertile land from which life springs; an overflowing life, full throbbing. It can be said that the naked bodies are blank canvases that the artist intervenes with clay and pigments, to later cover them with simple or complex compositions of plants, earth, roots, leaves, flowers and fruits. This gives life to his final work, through the masterful handling of light sources and shadows that give volume and movement to the creation captured through his magical eye by stopping time in a unique and unrepeatable moment.
-The plants and the body speak to me and I let myself be carried away; it is the emotions that express the last word- says Milló.
Miguel Milló is one of the greatest exponents of contemporary art in Mexico. His most important exhibitions have been at the Lois Lambert Gallery in Los Angeles CA; as well as in New York, where he was part of the international collective The Story of the Creative; he presented at Affordable Art Fair Mexico, as well with a mosaic at Design House within the Design Week Mexico event. This same year he exhibited in the house of Mexico "Benemérito de las Américas" in Havana, Cuba where he donated one of his works for the country's cultural heritage. Casa Lamm included him in the commemorative collection of its 20th anniversary and in the edition of the book Artistas de Casa Lamm. He has also exhibited at the Museo de la Cancillería and building of La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de la Ciudad de México.
In 2014 he was selected by the government of Mexico to commemorate forty years of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Mexico with an exhibition of his work in the City of Kuala Lumpur. His work was exhibited at Taylors University in that country, later at La Salle University, in the Philippines, and at the Mexico office in Taiwan. His “Origins” collection was exhibited in museums of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA).
Included in volume eight of the book International Contemporary Masters, an annual juried publication that presents the world's leading master artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and which is distributed in the most important museums, galleries, and bookstores in the world. He has been interviewed by the US magazine LUXE Interiors + Design and in December 2014 by The New York Times, in the Style section, who classified his work as "sublime and spiritual".
Chosen by the United Nations Organization and the SRE as the image of the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Convention for the rights of women and girls, distributed in 2015 in all Mexican embassies and consulates in the world; in 2016 inaugurates exhibition “Reflejos” on a PEMEX oil platform within the framework of celebrations for International Women's Day.
He is part of the SAT “Horizons” collection, traveling around the world.
At the end of 2019, Milló made an artwork for the Chanel House, which was the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Art magazine. As well as the cover of Pola magazine, the main publication on Saint Barthelemy Island. In 2021 he is selected as one of the five artists of CAM Galería at Market Art & Design The Hamptons.
Some other cities where his work has been exhibited are Miami, Los Angeles CA, San Diego CA, Havana, Manila, Taipei, Brazil, Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Querétaro, Chihuahua, Saltillo, Monterrey, and Cancun.
Milló has a special sensitivity for philanthropy. He has donated his work in support of organizations such as Mexfam which work in favor of women's rights in reproductive health issues, with the Fundación México Vivo that support causes for the fight against HIV, among others.