Collection: Miguel Wattio

Miguel Jiménez Jiménez (Seville, 1966) is a self-taught artist who has lived in Gijón since 2004. He showed artistic inclinations from a very young age. Although he held several exhibitions in cultural centers in Seville, he always worked there as an electrician (hence the nickname "Watio") and it wasn't until 2011 that he held his first solo exhibition in an art gallery. This was in Gijón, at the Galería Cornión, with which he continued working until its closure in 2022.

In that first exhibition, he surprised everyone with a blend of surrealism and pop art, where a series of characters strolling beneath his window coexisted with everyday objects. He aptly titled this series "From My Window."

In 2014, he held his next exhibition: “Popular Classics,” where, continuing in his characteristic pop style, he offered a humorous overview of art history. From this point on, he began creating geometric compositions where pop culture figures coexist within a geometric “landscape.”

From 2015 onwards, following the death of his sister, his characters transformed into black silhouettes of walkers wandering through an abstract-geometric world. This new phase lasted until 2020, and the two exhibitions he held at the Cornión Gallery in Gijón in 2017 and 2022 had very significant titles: “De Paso” (2017) and “Camín a Niundes” (2020).

Currently, Miguel Watio has begun a new stage where his characters seem to have come back to life with their original pop style within his landscapes of geometric abstraction.