Sergio Aranda

I am Sergio Aranda, a Spanish visual artist born in Switzerland and now based in Barcelona. My life has moved through cities such as Geneva, Madrid, and Paris, each leaving its imprint on my artistic language. These urban landscapes—rich with architecture, history, and hidden textures—continue to shape the way I see and create.

My work is deeply influenced by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, the idea that beauty lives within imperfection, impermanence, and the quiet traces of time. I am drawn to surfaces that carry memory: rusted metal, eroded walls, weathered materials marked by years of transformation. In these signs of decay I find poetry.

Through layered mixed-media techniques—scraping, erosion, chemical reactions, and textured surfaces—I build paintings that feel almost archaeological. Gold sometimes appears beside rust: a dialogue between splendor and corrosion, permanence and fragility. These contrasts echo the rhythms of life itself, where creation and deterioration coexist.

Patterns, worn textures, and irregular surfaces become visual metaphors for the passage of time. My work often sits between urban abstraction and organic transformation, where structure slowly dissolves into something more elemental.

What fascinates me most is how beauty can emerge from deterioration. By embracing corrosion, erosion, and imperfection, my paintings invite the viewer to reconsider what we define as beautiful. They are quiet reflections on time, memory, and the subtle transformations that shape both cities and human experience.

SSEC switzerland
ArtModa Barcelona
HRD Antwerpen

- Galerie David CHA - 51 Avenue Montaigne - 75008 Paris - France
(August 2021 to January 2022)
- Galerie Sonia MONTI - 6 Avenue Delcassé- 75008 Paris - France
(April 2021 to June 2021)
- Taxie Gallery - 19, Rue de Turenne - 75004 Paris - France
( from 24.08.2020 to 3.09.2020)
- Galería Blanca Mayoral - Calle de la Reina 6 - 40100 La Granja de San Ildefonso - Spain
(from 1.12.2019 to 30.08.2020)
- Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra - Zubieta Kalea, 2, 20007 San Sebastian - Spain
(from 10.08.2019 to 18.08.2019)
- Art Galerio - Calle Alcántara 44 - 28006 Madrid - Spain
(from 1.12.2019 to 10.03.2020)
- Pop Royal - Calle Serrano 25 - 28001 Madrid - Spain
(from 1.07.2018 to 30.07.2018)
- Hôtel Westin Palace - Plaza de las Cortes 7 - 28014 Madrid - Spain
(from 1.12.2018 to 20.12.2018)
- Pop Royal - Calle Serrano 25 - 28001 Madrid - Spain
(from 1.07.2018 to 30.07.2018)
- Art Galerio - Calle Roger de Lluría 93 - 08006 Barcelona - Spain
(from 10.10.2017 to 30.01.2019)

I'm a visual artist passionate about "urbex decay" my work is contemporary art, abstract and minimalist. The common thread of all my collections: The degradation of materials.
I follow the school of Christian Hetzel

contemporary, minimalism, wabisabi, architecture, pattern deco, black & white