Manuel Luna Spanish, 1970

Manuel Luna, born in Seville, Spain in 1970, self-taught, began his first steps in the world of art through comics, but very early, at the age of 16, he held his first official exhibition of oil paintings and drawings.

No one in his family and his environment was related to the world of art, which triggered a fight to defend the inevitable constancy of his work in painting, leading him to work in disparate trades from a very young age to be able to afford the expenses involved in exhibitions and the artistic material.

Successive exhibitions led him to exhibit in a good part of the world, always of a realistic and figurative nature, but inevitably accompanied by a high degree of imagination that complements those realistic images, filling them with a high level of symbolism, undoubtedly in the desire to tell stories in each canvas.  Some critics have seen this and his treatment of color as an undeniable legacy of his period as a comic artist.

In 1998 he learned about Stoic philosophy, integrating it into his daily life and consequently into his artistic theme, the transmission of ideas that contribute and add values ​​to society becomes a priority, the knowledge of the human being and his complex visualizations of the world that surrounds them and how to deal with them become symbolic images that create a bestiary that appears in all his work.

The death of his parents in a car accident gives a new meaning to the symbology charged with the use of life and the positive charge in philosophy in art as a means of expression.

In 2019, he complements his self-taught training with some courses at the Barcelona art academy, and in intensive courses with artists such as Dino Valls, Aránzazu Martínez and Adrian Smiths.

Since 2010 he has founded and is the director of the creative space "Craneo creación", an academy where many of the best world realism firms have passed, giving him the opportunity to exchange pictorial knowledge with them and where he is a tenured professor. During that period he began his collaborations with important groups of Spanish realism, such as the GRECO group, coming to have ANTONIO LÓPEZ as sponsor in one of their exhibitions.

His facet as a trainer makes him travel to many cities giving courses on imaginative painting. Also from 2020 he begins a series of collaborations with the MEAM museum (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona.

From that same year he began to train in a self-taught way in neuroscience and its impact on artistic development, coming to create the concept of NEUROART, where he creates a study of the brain in his trajectory from the creation of an idea, knowing the human brain and creating exercises to strengthen the areas involved in it.

 He is currently writing a book on this subject and giving courses that help to understand this system.

 He currently lives in Seville, and his work is in numerous entities, private collections, museums and foundations.