The Impossible Journey

Sergio Mora, also known as MAGICOMORA, is an artist whose work defies conventions and transcends the boundaries between high and low culture. Born in Barcelona in 1975, Mora has created a distinctive visual universe, filled with references to surrealism, pop art, and popular culture, yet always imbued with a unique magic that is entirely his own. From the beginning, Mora showed an inclination for the fantastic and the dreamlike. His early works reveal a fascination with myths and legends, elements that have endured and evolved in his work over the years. Mora’s training at the Escola LLotja in Barcelona provided him with a solid foundation in the plastic arts, but it was his personal vision and unmistakable style that truly set him apart in the contemporary art scene. Risograph is a high-speed digital printing system manufactured by the Riso Kagaku Corporation and designed mainly for high-volume photocopying and printing. Increasingly, Risograph machines have been commonly referred to as a RISO Printer-Duplicator, due to their common usage as a network printer as well as a stand-alone duplicator. When printing or copying multiple quantities (generally more than 20) of the same original, it is typically far less expensive per page than a conventional photocopier, laser printer, or inkjet printer. Printing historian Rick O'Connor has debated that the original, and thus correct, name for the device is RISSO and not RISO. This debate spawns from the notion that an extra 'S' is added because the inventor's wife found it more pleasing to the ears.