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Miguel A. Loredo - Biographic Information
Even if Miguel Loredo has been painting during all his life, it was not until 2002 that he decided to show his works in a broader context in an exhibition at the Carol LaPlante Gallery in New York, presenting 30 oil paintings on canvas as a celebration for the first anniversary of the September eleventh’s tragedy. Since then, Loredo has worked non- stop to find a way to express the inner contradiction and opposite tensions in the universe and life. The outcome is a world always beyond our human reach,a world in which unity,austerity,simplicity and economy of means prevail.
Loredo, born in Havana 1938- a self-taught painter, befriended when still a teenager some of the most well known Cuban painters such as Portocarrero, Milian and Mijares. Rolando Lopez-Dirube became his tutor and invited him to work in his studio.
During the years of his theological formation in Spain (1960-64 ) he met Lucio Munoz in his atelier in Madrid and at work in northern Spain. He was also acquainted with Chillida and Oteiza’s works. At that point, he started showing the roughness of the basque landscape surrounding him and a very peculiar language connected with abstract informalism.
Shortly after his return to Cuba in 1964, he was sentenced to 15 years as a political prisoner, of which he served 10 years of his sentence. During those years in prison, Loredo painted in scraps of paper and on the back of the few letters he was allowed to receive. The media he used were coffee,iodine and dirt or ashes fixed with eggs whites as a varnish. Some of his paintings of this period have been shown in Miami alongside the works of other political prisoners such as the late Julio Hernandez Rojo.
Forced to leave Cuba in 1984, Loredo went to Rome and produced an essay about the links between experience and language. He became acquainted first hand with the works of the great masters in several European countries.
In 1987 he started his uninterrupted activities at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. He moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico where he painted the “Like Trees” series and also published “Despues del Silencio” (memoirs) ”De la Necesidad y del Amor” (poetry) and “Los Subitos Quebrantos” (poetry).
Since 1991, Loredo has lived in New York and published “Uno” (poetry), showed his paintings in group exhibitions and sent 12 of his works to Miami to an auction to help the people in need in Cuba.
He also traveled to Brazil, Mexico, Russia, China, Egypt, Morocco and India among other countries, always in search of colors, forms and experiences for his pictorial language.
He studied Wifredo Lam’s graphic works and met Giorgio Upiglio, Lam’s printer, in Milano .
In 2002, Loredo had a retrospective exhibition of his paintings in Miami.
In 2003, he was invited to Cadiz, Spain,to be part of “Salida de emergencia”,an exhibition featuring the works of some well known Cuban painters in exile.
Most recently his paintings have been shown at Galerie Editart in Geneva, Switzerland.
His work continues to evolve with tireless energy and in a serious exchange of artistic perspectives with painters such as Joseph Marioni, among other contemporary artists residing in New York.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Group Exhibition: Tompkins Square Gallery, New York City, March 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Galeria Khroma, San Juan, Puerto Rico. February 2006.
2005
“Paleta Contemplativa”- The Miami Herald’s Lobby. Miami Fl. (oils and watercolors).
“Gesture and Light” –Reynardus and Moya Advertising’s Walls ,NY. (oils and watercolors).
2004
“Sguardi Paralleli”-Galleria al Centro Russia Ecumenica. Rome,Italy (watercolors).
“ Tangentes”-Galerie Editart.Geneve,Switzerland.-(oils and watercolors).
2002
“Retrospective”-Nuestro Home Gallery.Miami.Fl.-(acrylics.oils and watercolors)
“Sept-11th’s Tribute” -Carol LaPlante Gallery,NY. (oils and installation).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
“Different ways of seeing:The Expanding World of Abstraction”. The Noyes Museum of Art .Oceanville NJ.
Ramos Masters Collection,INC : “Caridad Madre Mia”. Pintores cubanos ( 09/07/05) – Gusman Center for the Performing Arts- .Miami Fl.
A group show of Gallery artists. La Barbacoa(0725 to 0925).Cernuda Arte.Miami,Fl.
A group show of Gallery artists. La Barbacoa((06 3 to 0725. Cernuda Arte. Miami,Fl.
“Cuba Art New York- CANY -2005”.Dactyl Foundation,s Gallery (Soho) NY.
2004
“Ahora es el Futuro” “The Future is Now”. The Durst Organization with Paul Sharpe PSCA -Contemporary Cuban Artists- .The Durst Org. Show Walls, NY.
Group Exhibition. Carol LaPlante Gallery. NY.
2003
Group Exhibition. Carol La Plante Gallery . NY.
“Salida de Emergencia”. Arte Cubano en el Exilio. Galeria Principal, Centro Cultural El Palillero. Cadiz. Spain.
2002
Group Exhibition. Peter Maderos Gallery,Chelsea, NY.
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