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Opening Speech
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"Ad Lib". Hotel Nacional de Cuba. June
21st 1999.
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When I first met Miguel, I never imagined some day I would make
an opening speech for an exhibit of his artwork. At the time
I didn't know that much about visual arts and I only had a scant
notion about the intensty of the whole process in the creation
of a pictoric work.
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Maybe just because of a natural disposition in me toward arts
and surely due to the strength Cerejido faces each painting's
birth, I started appraising the world of canvases, brushes, airbrushes...,
and I began to understand how much of sleeplessness, nonconformity
and satisfaccions are behind the work of each artist; and also
got to understand the beauty of the pieces we now have before
us.
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I think today is the time to thank him for all
I learned about art and graffic design, which has been so useful
in my own work
and my professional life.
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And I said "pieces" referring to his
paintings with the pronounced intention of considering them as
visual and
musical
artworks at the same time in the universe of this artist who
refuses to separate this two expressions of art.
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For the wide scope the meaning of his works has on the spectator,
Cerejido is hard to set in an specific branch or a unique classification.
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For many people he could be an abstractionist that re-creates
concepts and sensations with skills and mastership. For others
the expressionist element is quite evident in works loaded with
theatrical and dramatic strength.
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Landscapes? Considering the fact that each and every piece is
a kind of unreal or imaginary place, but pecfectly possible in
some regions we maybe don't know about, why not?
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The best definition perhaps would be to call him "postmodern",
since he appropiates element from POP ART, ART DECO, illustration
and graffics in general to create melodic lines with the sounds
of Rock and Blues, and harmonies from the best Bach and Stravinsky's
concerts.
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In love with music, and a musician himself, Cerejido
prefers autodefine as a "nostalgic avant-garde" who
catches the emotion of music in his canvases to make it tangible
and
real for us.
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I'm not allowed the right to compare myself or even get next
to those really cualified to outline the work of this musician-astist
or artist-musician called Miguel Cerejido. But my sensibility gives
me the perfect right to feel myself touched in front of the beauty
of his work and also feel I am before a great artist.
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Many of you surely agree with me.
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Thank you
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Luisa Leonor Veitía Alvarez
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1958 - 2000
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Miguel CEREJIDO |
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