Daniel Dobarco (Castellón, 1988) is a visual artist whose work navigates between the mythical, the fantastical, and the contemporary, constructing a universe where the sacred and the grotesque coexist in a tragicomic balance. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2016) and a Master’s in Artistic Production (2017). Dobarco has developed a pictorial language that draws from a wide range of sources, including classical literature, medieval iconography, video game imagery, and postmodern fragmentary narrative.

His work, described as a “dystopian high-fantasy comedy,” evokes worlds where elves, orcs, and angels share space with allegories of the human condition. Inspired by the solemnity of The Divine Comedy and the quixotic absurdity, Dobarco explores the tensions between myth and reality, faith and doubt, tragedy and farce. His paintings function as portals to layered universes where the archaic and the modern do not oppose each other but instead engage in a dialogue within a symbol-laden visual narrative.

Among his projects, ULTRANOCHE (2025, Mostra Test, Vila-real), LORE (2022, Internet Moon Gallery), and LOOT (2023, Galería Tuesday to Friday, Valencia) stand out, delving into the tragicomedy stemming from the journey and adventure of the antihero.

He has taken part in the International Art Fair Marte (Castellón, 2018–2019) and has received awards such as the First Painting Prize from the University of Murcia (2017) and the Dávalos-Fletcher Grant (2019), which enabled him to reside at GlogauAir (Berlin), where he has developed part of his work. In 2023, he received a Production Grant from Hàbitat Artístic Castelló to work at the same Berlin residency.

Dobarco's work is not an escape but a distorted mirror of human contradictions. As he himself states: “The monsters are still here. They never left.” His artistic practice delves into the collective unconscious, from medieval illuminations to digital mythologies, creating a territory where the heroic and the ridiculous merge in a unique vision—both deeply human and dreamlike.

He currently lives and works in Valencia, continuing his exploration of alternative universes that challenge the boundaries between the real and the imagined.