Curriculum - 05 - Ibrahím Miranda

Ibrahim Miranda Ramos, born 1969 in Pinar del Río, studied from 1984 until 1993 at the Escuela Elemental de Arte de Pinar del Río and at the art-academies ENA and ISA in Havana. His graphic works participated at 176 expositions in 29 countries.
They are in 24 museums and received 15 awards.

Everything has an obverse and a reverse. Heads and tails. Why should we be surprised that an artist, in the act of creation, demonstrates two-sided, ambidextrous, bifrontal behavior? Aren't we all a little doubled, tripled, multiplied? A curious swinging, oscillatory behavior compels Ibrahím Miranda to shift periodically, from rational, reflexive, premeditated works to others where the irrational, instinctive, spontaneous, prevail. It's as if he were two totally different persons - one intellectual, articulate, pedagogical; the other dark, hermetic, enigmatic. Ibrahím Miranda paints to blind and to iluminate. Each of his halves takes up one mission or the other. And very frequently they cooperate to turn the experience into a pleasurable an terrifying mixture of confusion and clarity. Isn't this what we expect of true art?

Orlando Hernández