Sergio Mora is one of the leading exponents of the Pop Surrealist movement in Spain. Born in Barcelona in 1975, he studied at the famed “La LLotja” (Barcelona Arts and Crafts School). He is painter, illustrator, video director, designer, performer and storyteller. His artistic work is intense, rich and varied, ranging from book publishing, collaboration with magazines, working with some of Spain’s renowned musicians, participating in advertising campaigns and, of course, exhibiting his paintings in galleries around the world.
Working mainly in acrylics, Mora creates a colorful world full of dream and circus characters, where tattooed women have bunny heads and Spock appears as a toreador. His colorful world, rendered with immaculate detail, have a playful narrative quality; his characters appear in impossible proportions and are grouped with unlikely companions, appearing journeying towards unseen destinations or convening for odd celebrations. Like a true post-modernist, pop culture references punctuate his work with often amusing effect; is that Elton John riding a flying flamingo?
Colorful, amusing and strange … just the way I like it! Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on the Pop Surreal art of Sergio Mora.
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- Hi Doc Magazine Cover, Germany
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- La Moralisa
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- Nuevas Rutas
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- Infinito De Cordoba
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- El Pequeño Gigante
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- Pleased To Meat You
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- Wonko’s Garden
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- Edenia
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- Tauromagia
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- Pure Imagination
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- Buenas Fuentes
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- Fantástico Europa
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- Querer Es Podar
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- Rodeo Parnasus
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- Cover: Naif Magazine
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- Malagueña Salerosa
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- El Osito Yogui
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- El Wonder Garden
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- Concert Poster: Marc Parrot
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- Liebrea Y En Paz
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- Wonko’s Car
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- Benditos Sean Los Malditos
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- Muñecos de Nieve
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- Zorro Sobre Flamenco
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- Jamona con Jamón
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- Sergio Mora
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- Concert Poster: Los Toros
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- El Paseíllo
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- Tómalo Como Quieras
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- Guernica Love Song
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- Illustrated Dictionary Project
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- Como Siempre Sone Por Azar Te Encontre
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- La Magia Desnuda
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- Raw Magazine Cover
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- La Cuadrilla Caníbal
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- Concert Poster: Nino Rock
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- La Princesa
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- Si Vuelas Vuelo
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- Club Apolo
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- Monkey Gone To Heaven
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- Hay Que Regar El Jardín
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- Comida Para Tu Alma
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- Semilla Negra
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- 11.11.11 Concert Poster
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- La Cacería
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- El Duende
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- La Novia Munster
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- La Zarzamora
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- Gallinos
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- Candyland
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- Fire
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- Arquistas
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- Advertising Poster: Zombie Beer
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- Dibújame Un Cordero
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- Space Pop
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- Heart Life Head Health
I love the twists and turns of surreal art!! These are wonderful. I was not familiar with Sergio Mora. Thank you for sharing!!
Hi … you’re welcome. He’s one of my faves!
Some of them look like demented Little Golden Books illustrations!
Hmmmm … a childhood influence, perhaps?
I never thought I’d ever see Spock riding a flying guitar!
Hey Drew … that and Space Pop are my two faves. Kinda like Spock as a toreador, too.
Fascinating, dreamlike. And yes, they remind me of those Little Golden Books. 🙂
Hi there, and thanks for visiting. I’m sure somewhere down the line, perhaps even subconsciously, those books serve as an inspiration to his work.
They are strange, but in a wonderful way. Thanks for sharing.
Hi TBM … my pleasure!
Hi Stephen 🙂 A minute ago I clicked on your gravatar and found out you don’t have links to your wordpress blog over there. Would you put it please? I do follow you, but when I click on your pic I want to find the link to your wordpress blog easily 😉
Hi Paula … thanks for that heads up! Wasn’t aware of that. The situation has been rectified!
Glad to hear that Stephen 🙂 Have a nice weekend!
P.S. This art is very original 🙂 I loved the one entitled “comida para tu alma” 🙂
Hey Paula … I really like the sense of humor behind his work.
Fantastic, literally! Zoeeo on the Flamingo is my favourite I think, love that uncanny resemblance to Elton John 🙂
Hey Madhu … yah, it all comes together for me when it comes to his art. I just love the sly sense of humor, and his pop culture references. Glad you like it!
Oops, time for bed….that should have read Zorro!
🙂
S. Mora seems to be obsessed with Spock! While I’m not suggesting that Spock isn’t a worthy obsession, it’s so funny how this media item sticks out in the midst of the other images.
He does seem to have a preoccupation with Spock … not that there’s anything wrong with it. I wonder if Kirk feels slighted?
Somewhere between pop art, Disney and vintage posters, Love it! There’s a film out there, somewhere) in which Dali and his muse Gaia actually created a Disney short film. It has some references to his mentor Louis Buneul and it’s brilliant if you can ever find it.
Of course, Disney never released the film-far too avant garde, but it’s certainly made the appearance on a few arthouse festivals for sure!
Hey GIAFF … that film is called Destino and you can actually find it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU. It’s pretty trippy!
Brilliant! Saw it years back but I love surrealist/pop anything!
Stephen, thanks so much for adding the movie “Destino” to one of your replies. It’s really quite beautiful and seems like a topic just cut out for Salvador Dali. What a wonderful work of art, and a perfect supplement to a discussion of Mora’s art.
Hey there, Victoria. You can thank Girl In A Food Frenzy for that (and then visit her awesome blog at http://girlinafoodfrenzy.com/). I had seen Destino many years ago, so it was really great to see it again, especially, as you say, as a kind of companion to the Sergio Mora work. Fun with art!