About Miguel Wilfred Dafos
BRIEF SKIN OF MIGUEL WILFRID DAFOS
Plastic artist, without labels or ties. He carries out his creative work between
Painting and Sculpture, where matter and recycling are in his palette,
fundamental materials in the concept of his radical commitment to the
expression of a personal art that owes nothing to influences of styles or
currents, and where By nature, the very search for the personal distances one
from labels.
(Perhaps his best work is the expression of himself.)
With an extensive professional career, his works are distributed throughout
the world, since he can basically be considered a street artist, since his work,
always renewed and constant, can be contemplated under the Sevillian sky,
every Sunday morning where it is a fundamental part of the creation of the
Movement: “Artistas Plaza del Museo”, as well as the M.A group,
“countercultural” response to the clichés of an “established art” conditioned
by the grievance of the economic situation.
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Under the auspices of the artist Luigi Maráez,GAD PROJECTS EUROPE.
<Vanguard Parks and Gardens>(Junta de Andalucía), was the artist selected
and chosen to represent Seville, offering a more than interesting conference
on his work, simultaneously translated live into several languages.
(Hotel England) Seville.
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AMONG SOME OF THEIR PUBLIC MANIFESTATIONS THEN STAND OUT:
- “ART MOVES”, Traveling pictorial exhibition by bicycle through the streets of
Seville. 1999 (Junta de Andalucía)
- “A WALK THROUGH COLOR”: Individual exhibition at La Casa de las Columnas,
Seville. 2000.
- COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION ALAMILLO PARK. (Junta of Andalusia) Seville. 2001.
- XVIII EXHIBITION of Plastic Arts “LAS PALMILLAS”. Balcón del Guadalquivir (La
Puebla del Río) Seville. 2001
- “ARTÍSTAS ENDANZA”, Painting and Sculpture Exhibition. M.A. GROUP Seville.
2002.
- “LOOKING AT THE RIVER”: Individual exhibition in the Guadalquivir Room, Paseo
Mayor Marqués Contadero, Seville. 2003.
- “FOUR IN SEVEN”. Group exhibition at El Siete Art Gallery. Seville. 2005.
- “WINDOWS TO AN INNER WORLD”: Individual exhibition in the Ánima room. Seville.
2005.
- “UREX COLLECTIVE MEETING”. Conference and Exhibition Room. Poetic Days of
the Veranillos del Alamillo. (Junta of Andalusia) Seville. 2005 and 2006.
- “TEARS OF SALT”. Benalmádena City Hall collective exhibition. Malaga. 2006.
- “A RÍO DE DREAMS”: Individual exhibition in the exhibition hall of the Coria del Río
town hall, Seville. 2008.
- Group exhibition in Argenteuil, France. 2010.
- “A WORLD OF MEMORIES” Individual exhibition in Argenteuil, France. 2012.
- Group exhibition in Lyon, France. 2014.
- “TRIBUTE TO VALDÉS LEAL”: Collective exhibition in the Antiquarium room, Setas
de Sevilla. 2022.
As well as a constant itinerant vocation to different places in the city, and even to
places in Spain and abroad, where his work was required.
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WORDS FROM THE ARTIST:
I was born in Lyon in 1961... and I lived in Paris until 1977 when I arrived in Seville.
When my father, also a painter, died in 1996, I made the decision to dedicate myself to
painting, abandoning my career as an aviator...
Being the son of a painter, my childhood is closely linked to art.
During my adolescence I took my first steps in watercolor, black and white drawings
on paper, graphite and Indian ink, although my vocation continued to be that of being
a commercial pilot, an effort that almost led me to ruin and consequently my
obligatory distance from the aeronautical world.
Added to this was the premature death of my father at the age of 67, and it was then
that I fell into a deep depression that lasted ten years.
As soon as my father died, alone in his studio I reviewed his work and the paintings
he left unfinished..., and that is when I decided to distance myself from the "circus of
the world", to give myself completely to art, without conventions, nor being part of
what politically correct...
Maybe all of this would upset my family life and end in divorce.
It is then that I decide to travel to Mexico and get away from Spain.
That way of life and its art began to penetrate me, and it was then that my painting
became looser and more colorful.
My first stay in Mexico lasted six months, and then I returned to Spain and in less
than a year settled in Guadalajara (Jalisco), until my visa expired, so I had to return to
Seville.
Along the way of my artistic journey, I meet many other artists and I observe that for
most, painting is just the search for success and money..., and they still spend their
lives emulating those other so-called "masters."
It is then that I understand that the path must be taken alone, fleeing from mediocrity,
in that solitude necessary to avoid the terrible hodgepodge of “the artistic”, which like
a virus adulterates all truth in art; Whether we are talking about self-taught artists or
those called “academics”.
Without putting your soul into your work, there is nothing...
In this universe of mine, there is only room for my own inner world, where reality and
dream merge, in search of my desires that I do not need to explain...
It is permissible for me to think from the beginning, my work is forged in the influence
of my father, a painter of race... And it could even be said that, after his death, my
work is an extension of his, because where his art ended, it began. and mine was
born...
As a child, my weekends and even vacations were spent with him, in visits to
museums and exhibitions, and other artists' workshops. We lived in Paris, and art
oozed everywhere...
Death occupies a large space in my work, also in my daily feelings. It attracts and
fascinates me and equally inspires me. I wait for her without fear, patiently...
Let's say that beyond that enigmatic lady, there are other things that absorb
and interest me, without me trying to understand meanings myself.
When I paint, it is as if I begin a journey that exists beyond our world, which
perhaps expresses itself in strange symbols more similar to writing than to the
concept of painting itself.
I often have the impression of entering a parallel universe with which I connect
as soon as I put myself in front of the canvas and start painting.
From there: Blah, blah, blah. Words and more words...
Plastic artist, without labels or ties. He carries out his creative work between
Painting and Sculpture, where matter and recycling are in his palette,
fundamental materials in the concept of his radical commitment to the
expression of a personal art that owes nothing to influences of styles or
currents, and where By nature, the very search for the personal distances one
from labels.
(Perhaps his best work is the expression of himself.)
With an extensive professional career, his works are distributed throughout
the world, since he can basically be considered a street artist, since his work,
always renewed and constant, can be contemplated under the Sevillian sky,
every Sunday morning where it is a fundamental part of the creation of the
Movement: “Artistas Plaza del Museo”, as well as the M.A group,
“countercultural” response to the clichés of an “established art” conditioned
by the grievance of the economic situation.
...............................................................................................................
......
Under the auspices of the artist Luigi Maráez,GAD PROJECTS EUROPE.
<Vanguard Parks and Gardens>(Junta de Andalucía), was the artist selected
and chosen to represent Seville, offering a more than interesting conference
on his work, simultaneously translated live into several languages.
(Hotel England) Seville.
...............................................................................................................
......
AMONG SOME OF THEIR PUBLIC MANIFESTATIONS THEN STAND OUT:
- “ART MOVES”, Traveling pictorial exhibition by bicycle through the streets of
Seville. 1999 (Junta de Andalucía)
- “A WALK THROUGH COLOR”: Individual exhibition at La Casa de las Columnas,
Seville. 2000.
- COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION ALAMILLO PARK. (Junta of Andalusia) Seville. 2001.
- XVIII EXHIBITION of Plastic Arts “LAS PALMILLAS”. Balcón del Guadalquivir (La
Puebla del Río) Seville. 2001
- “ARTÍSTAS ENDANZA”, Painting and Sculpture Exhibition. M.A. GROUP Seville.
2002.
- “LOOKING AT THE RIVER”: Individual exhibition in the Guadalquivir Room, Paseo
Mayor Marqués Contadero, Seville. 2003.
- “FOUR IN SEVEN”. Group exhibition at El Siete Art Gallery. Seville. 2005.
- “WINDOWS TO AN INNER WORLD”: Individual exhibition in the Ánima room. Seville.
2005.
- “UREX COLLECTIVE MEETING”. Conference and Exhibition Room. Poetic Days of
the Veranillos del Alamillo. (Junta of Andalusia) Seville. 2005 and 2006.
- “TEARS OF SALT”. Benalmádena City Hall collective exhibition. Malaga. 2006.
- “A RÍO DE DREAMS”: Individual exhibition in the exhibition hall of the Coria del Río
town hall, Seville. 2008.
- Group exhibition in Argenteuil, France. 2010.
- “A WORLD OF MEMORIES” Individual exhibition in Argenteuil, France. 2012.
- Group exhibition in Lyon, France. 2014.
- “TRIBUTE TO VALDÉS LEAL”: Collective exhibition in the Antiquarium room, Setas
de Sevilla. 2022.
As well as a constant itinerant vocation to different places in the city, and even to
places in Spain and abroad, where his work was required.
...................................................................................................................
WORDS FROM THE ARTIST:
I was born in Lyon in 1961... and I lived in Paris until 1977 when I arrived in Seville.
When my father, also a painter, died in 1996, I made the decision to dedicate myself to
painting, abandoning my career as an aviator...
Being the son of a painter, my childhood is closely linked to art.
During my adolescence I took my first steps in watercolor, black and white drawings
on paper, graphite and Indian ink, although my vocation continued to be that of being
a commercial pilot, an effort that almost led me to ruin and consequently my
obligatory distance from the aeronautical world.
Added to this was the premature death of my father at the age of 67, and it was then
that I fell into a deep depression that lasted ten years.
As soon as my father died, alone in his studio I reviewed his work and the paintings
he left unfinished..., and that is when I decided to distance myself from the "circus of
the world", to give myself completely to art, without conventions, nor being part of
what politically correct...
Maybe all of this would upset my family life and end in divorce.
It is then that I decide to travel to Mexico and get away from Spain.
That way of life and its art began to penetrate me, and it was then that my painting
became looser and more colorful.
My first stay in Mexico lasted six months, and then I returned to Spain and in less
than a year settled in Guadalajara (Jalisco), until my visa expired, so I had to return to
Seville.
Along the way of my artistic journey, I meet many other artists and I observe that for
most, painting is just the search for success and money..., and they still spend their
lives emulating those other so-called "masters."
It is then that I understand that the path must be taken alone, fleeing from mediocrity,
in that solitude necessary to avoid the terrible hodgepodge of “the artistic”, which like
a virus adulterates all truth in art; Whether we are talking about self-taught artists or
those called “academics”.
Without putting your soul into your work, there is nothing...
In this universe of mine, there is only room for my own inner world, where reality and
dream merge, in search of my desires that I do not need to explain...
It is permissible for me to think from the beginning, my work is forged in the influence
of my father, a painter of race... And it could even be said that, after his death, my
work is an extension of his, because where his art ended, it began. and mine was
born...
As a child, my weekends and even vacations were spent with him, in visits to
museums and exhibitions, and other artists' workshops. We lived in Paris, and art
oozed everywhere...
Death occupies a large space in my work, also in my daily feelings. It attracts and
fascinates me and equally inspires me. I wait for her without fear, patiently...
Let's say that beyond that enigmatic lady, there are other things that absorb
and interest me, without me trying to understand meanings myself.
When I paint, it is as if I begin a journey that exists beyond our world, which
perhaps expresses itself in strange symbols more similar to writing than to the
concept of painting itself.
I often have the impression of entering a parallel universe with which I connect
as soon as I put myself in front of the canvas and start painting.
From there: Blah, blah, blah. Words and more words...
