If the drawings of Héctor Pineda are laboratories of line, his paintings and digital works are theatres of immersion, expanding his vision into more colourful and complex realms. Using oil, acrylic and aerosol alongside collage elements, Pineda builds multi-layered compositions in which cosmic motifs – stars, fractals, planetary arcs – are integrated with anatomical detail, reinforcing his preoccupation with the human form as both microcosm and macrocosm. Mythic references include horned deities, ritual bindings, and shibari-inspired entanglements. Even at their most elaborate his compositions retain a sense of flow, propelled by the same instinctive momentum that drives his ink work.

Digital art allows Pineda to push hybridity further. Through photomanipulation and collaborative processes, he layers fractal geometries, textures and symbolic fragments with bodies and landscapes into complex universes. The digital realm does not so much replace the handmade as extend it, resulting in imagery that feels simultaneously ancient and futuristic, rooted in myth yet saturated with the results of contemporary visual technology.

Across painting and digital practice alike, Pineda sustains his central concerns – eroticism entwined with mortality, beauty shadowed by violence, and the perpetual dance of dissolution and rebirth.