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Artist Statement:
Artist’s Statement
The nexus between music and
painting and ways of
pictorially representing sound
and silence, have been the
main subjects of my work as an
artist since 1980. This
exploration has many facets
from attempts at a pictorial
representation of sound, to
the creation of environments
(maybe places or landscapes)
that result from the
sensations, feelings, states
of mind and/or visions
generated by music. My work
has gone through different
stages from attempts to
illustration of specific
musical work to explorations
of aspects of the musical
structure itself. This is, of
course, purely subjective
The final phase of production
in my work is distinguished by
a return to painting, almost
forgotten in my eagerness in
use it as a medium instead of
a purpose, and the utilization
of all I’ve learned through
the years about shaping a
pictorial – not musical – art
work, which held all the
spiritual power of music, as
an autonomous entity, without
moving it away from it’s
musical sources by means of
referent codes, which, I hope,
made possible the
identification of the theme by
the viewer.
The resolution of this process
continues to evolve as I grow
as an artist and ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions, Fairs and other
events
1979- Itinerant Exhibition in
Europe.
1984- 1st Biennial of Havana.
'L' Gallery, Havana.
1985- School of Arts and
Literature. University of
Havana.
1987- Professor’s Salon.
Superior Institute of
Industrial Design, Havana.
1989- 'INTERART' Fair. Poland.
1990- 'La Acacia' Gallery
inauguration. Havana.
1991- '70 years ...
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Miguel Cerejido Biography:
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Curriculum Vitae
Miguel Cerejido is a Canadian artist, born in Havana, Cuba on February the 26th of 1960.
Graduated of drawing and painting from the academy of Arts 'San Alejandro' in 1980. He finished a Master Degree in Fine Arts at the Instituto Superior de Arte (I.S.A.) in 1985; he worked as a professor at the Institute of Industrial Design, among other art schools in Cuba. He also worked as a specialist at the Centro de 'Diseño Ambiental' (Interior Design) in Havana.
He was an active member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) since 1995, and of Art Kollectif Media Foundation Inc. in Ottawa, Canada.
Presently he is a member of Arts Ottawa East organization, The Council for the Arts in Ottawa and The Ottawa Art Gallery.
His explorations in painting have always been dealing with the possible nexuses between music and painting as well as, in a very particular way, 'Images' that this other artistic discipline produces in his subjectivity
This theme has been always present in his artistic endeavors from 1983 -while still a student at ISA-, encompassing all his carrier and evolving in many different forms, according to levels of perception in the artist's sensibility and to what is he focusing in his approach to the musical phenomenon.
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