Miguel Ybáñez works in the tradition of Arte Povera and embraces a range of techniques to create works of varying scale and form. His reliefs, sculptures and assemblages are made of cloth, cardboard, metal, plaster and found objects. The resulting works are unified by an overall off-white finish which imbues the forms with a timeless and ethereal presence. In his work Ybáñez strives to negate the boundaries between past and present, ‘high’ and ‘low’ art.

Ybáñez states that the essence of his work is to express the universal emotions that exist in our shared extra-dimensional space. He believes that this language without words is understood across cultures and sees his work as a conduit, a medium through which he can pass his ideas to future generations.

For his current exhibition 'Dime" (Tell m) at GRIMM, Ybáñez wrote this poem:

Tell me

Where does silence hide?

Tell me: show me the emptiness of Luis Putton?

Tell me: explain to me the concept of hollow time?

Tell me: how do we magically reconfigure the past?

Tell me: why does the skin tear like a mask?

Tell me: what language does an unnoticed one speak?

Francisco de Goya, you dissolve ashes and greasy ink to tell me the plague left its trail in history.

Mountains of incinerated beings mounted with their abandoned misery.

Carrying their old age with two crutches, supporting the rhythm of their breath.

Contempt transforms into delicacy, the unheard from history.

Francisco, we don't evolve this fast as you may think. Tell me in which drawer you keep your secret and I will show it to you.

Secrets beaten as a pomegranate from a tree which is all too familiar.