“Duality in gold” Dualidad en oro | Oil and gold foil on French canvas | 89.9 cm x 180 cm | Year 2020
Belarmino Miranda Montoya (1966 – Medellín Colombia), for more than thirty years as a visual artist he has made various series in which the starting point has been the body as a symbol of the sublime, the spiritual and the human. To achieve this, he has expressed himself through drawing and painting, although in recent works, he has included various materials in his work to generate new visual experiences in the viewer.
Review
In the 1990s, the works of Belarmino Miranda emerged in Colombia and with rapid acceptance in international circles, a work that has the power to firmly root us in the present, while allowing us a reunion with the history of art; fortunate synthesis that makes it suggestive and full of connotations.
Although a first glance seems to indicate that all the expressive and symbolic load of his paintings is concentrated in the communion that can be perceived in them, the nudity of the female bodies and the landscape.
We discover a little more attentive to his trajectory, that this recurrence of symbolic elements also occurs in his interior paintings (perhaps somewhat warmer and less dense), in which the presence of children and women crowned with faint halos and crowns brought of ancient flower ceremonies, they suggest golden ages increasingly distant from ours, in which the power of the outside world does not succeed, however, to extinguish these subtle manifestations of the spirit.
Miranda manages to give us, through the meticulous recreation of the intimate moments of a placid feminine bath, a breath of the poetics of the memory of the origin, using elements as simple as the meeting of women’s skin and water, in those that the seasoned observer can attend representations that, despite being performed in contemporary settings that would otherwise seem prosaic to us, manage to convey to us, touched by a nostalgic sense of the sacred, the emotion and the beauty contained in the perpetuation of a ancient ritual.
His plastic work has been exhibited in countries such as: United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, China and Colombia. Important galleries and renowned art fairs where his work has been exhibited include: Art Shanghai – Art Miami – Art Palm Beach – Art 21 Las Vegas – Art Essentials Canada – Art New York – FÍA Caracas – Artbo Bogotá – Artfi Bogotá and Art Medellín, among others. His works are part of different private collections.
| Publications | |
| 1991 – 1995 | Book “Shape and color of Colombia” |
| 1998 | Book “14 Colombian Figuratives” |
| 2000 | Book “Neorealism in Colombia” |
| 2005 | Book “Colombia Gallery” |
| 2007 | Book “Art Expressions” |
| 2012 | ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL magazine, with circulation in Europe and the USA. It published a report about his work |
| 2013 | He is mentioned alongside the Renowned Artist, Fernando Botero in the catalog: “Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art 2013.” |
| Covers | |
| Book | Die with Dad by Oscar Collazos |
| Book | Death of The Model by Phillip Potdevin |
| Acknowledgments | |
| 2011 | Receives Honorable Mention and recognition of his career in the professional category at the Departmental Hall of Visual Arts, Medellin, Colombia. |
| 2018 | At the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín he received the “San Lorenzo de Aná” award in the Plastic Arts category. |
| 2019 | Selected in Expo Cultura as “reference artist” in the category “Artists of Great Trajectory” He and his art were selected as a subject of focus in “Medellin City Discovery”. |
| Exhibitions | |
| 1985 | Hall of Art INEM, ITA, CASD, Medellín Colombia |
| 1986 | Lybrary: Luis Angel Arango, Bogota Colombia |
| 1987 | University of Antioquia, Medellin Colombia Official Employes Club, Bogota Colombia ICBF, Medellin Colombia |
| 1989 | Aimaru Gallery, Bogota Colombia |
| 1990 | Small Format Pilot Public Library, Medellin Colombia |
| 1991 | Shape and Color Colombia, Bogota Colombia Cibeles Gallery, Medellin Colombia |
| 1992 | Artfi, International Art Fair, Bogota Colombia |
| 1993 | Skandia Gallery, Bogota Colombia Highway Art Gallery, Medellin Colombia |
| 1994 | The Study Gallery, Medellin Colombia |
| 1996 | Gallery Hall 33, Medellin Colombia |
| 1997 | Color and Shape Gallery, Medellin Colombia |
| 1998 | Hispanic American Museum, Miami Fl USA Embassy of Colombia in Costa Rica Rica, Jorge M. Sori Fine Art Gallery, Miami Fl USA Bal Harbour Gallery, Miami Fl USA Latin American Art, George Nader, Dominican Republic |
| 1999 | Latin-American Art, Dominican Republic. Bal Harbour Gallery Miami FL USA. Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach FL USA. Art Miami, Miami FL USA. Iberoamerican Fair of Caracas, Venezuela. Jorge M. Sori Fine Art Gallery, Miami FL USA. Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA |
| 2000 | Art Miami, Miami FL USA Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA Art 21, Las Vegas, Nevada USA Bal Harbor Gallery, Miami FL USA Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach FL USA Jorge M. Sori Fine Art Gallery, Miami Fl USA |
| 2001 | Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA Glass Gallery, Los Angeles CA USA Art Essentials, Canada Bal Harbour Gallery, Miami FL USA |
| 2002 | Art Miami, Miami FL USA Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA Jorge M. Sori Fine Art Gallery, Miami FL USA Grass Gallery, Los Angeles CA USA |
| 2003 | Art Miami, Miami FL USA Jorge M. Sori Fine Art Gallery, Miami FL USA Guardian Gallery, Los Angeles CA USA Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA |
| 2004 | Art New York, New York USA Art Miami, Miami FL USA Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA Guardian Gallery, Los Angeles CA USA |
| 2005 | Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton FL USA Karen Lynne Gallery, Beverly Hills CA USA Mundo Arte Gallery, Medellín Colombia |
| 2006 | Montealegre Gallery, Bogota Colombia |
| 2007 | Artbo International Art Fair, Duke Arango Gallery, Bogota Colombia |
| 2009 | Bal Harbour Gallery Miami FL USA Jorge M. Sori Fine Art Gallery, Miami FL USA Caesarea Gallery Boca Raton FL USA Karen Lynne Gallery, Beverly Hills CA USA Elite Art Editions, Miami FL USA Current Art, Bogotá Colombia Ramírez Sánchez Gallery, Bucaramanga Colombia |
| 2010 | Art Shanghai Latin American Pavilion, China Bal Harbour Gallery, Miami FL USA Elite Art Editions, Miami FL USA. The Wall Art Gallery, Medellín Colombia |
| 2011 | Art Galllery Rafael Uribe, Palace of Culture, Medellín Colombia |
| 2012 | Art Galllery Rafael Uribe, Palace of Culture, Medellín Colombia |
| 2013 | “Seven” Color and Form Gallery, Medellín Colombia The Workshop Gallery. Medellín Colombia |
| 2014 | Diego Victoria Fine Art Gallery, Miami FL USA Art Medellin, Wooden box, Medellin Colombia Exhibition Religious painting, Santafé de Antioquia Colombia Workshop Gallery, Medellín Colombia |
| 2016 | Permanent exhibition in “A2 Gallery”, Sala de Amor y Arte Fundación, Medellín Colombia Art Medellin, Wooden box, Medellin Colombia |
| 2017 | Permanent exhibition in “A2 Gallery”, Sala de Amor y Arte Fundación, Medellín Colombia |
| 2018 | Permanent exhibition in “A2 Gallery”, Sala de Amor y Arte Fundación, Medellín Colombia |
| 2019 | Permanent exhibition in “A2 Gallery”, Sala de Amor y Arte Fundación, Medellín Colombia Exhibition at the international maritime summit, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia |
| 2020 | Permanent exhibition in “A2 Gallery”, Sala de Amor y Arte Fundación, Medellín Colombia |
