Javier Soler Esplugues

On a journey into the future via a holiday trip into space.

The Spanish 3D artist Javier Soler Esplugues creates visually engaging experiments involving the ancient dream of visiting distant planets. In a stylish new Orion space suit by NASA, two astronauts travel through space and time to enjoy an extraterrestrial holiday. With the help of digital rendering, the artist’s works explore the limits of reality and take the viewer on an inspirational journey into utopia.

The series Future Holidays skilfully works with our dreams and imagination, playing with our wildest desires to present us with unreachable distances in a highly photogenic but also slightly ironic manner. What we see exceeds all technology, yet it reveals something that many long for deeply. Everything is, could and perhaps one day will be just like this, but for now we still travel through time and space in the age of fantasy, enjoying coffee on the balcony of the imagination. A pale blue moon hovers alone over the planetary idyll. Upon a closer look we discover that it is the Earth.

While he was studying economics, the many possibilities of digital image creation so inspired Esplugues that he subsequently devoted himself entirely to artificially created pictures and became a self-taught 3D artist. With a specialisation in image and film, he uses 3D techniques in multifaceted narrative forms in order to visualise his fantastic ideas. As a skilled creator of his own visions, his works quickly brought him great international renown and popularity within the cosmos of digital art.