MIGUEL MUÑOZ MARTINEZ (Colombia)

EXPERIENCE THE ARTIST

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1976: ICEM Contest Winner - UNICEF, Bogota.

1977: Fine Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

1978: Ferrara Gallerie, Paris, France.

1979: National Exhibition, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

1980: Wilhelm Pieck, Pionierrepublik, werbellinse, AlemanÃ?Âa.

1982: GalerÃ?Âa sextant, Caracas, Venezuela.

1983: Real GalerÃ?Âa: Maracaibo, Venezuela.

1987: Call for Human Rights, Adpostal BogotÃ?Â.

1988: Popular Culture Festival of Bogota. Colombia.

1989: Collective GalerÃ?Âa Santa Fe de Bogota. Colombia.

1989: Universidad de la Sabana Contest Bogota.

1989: International Competition DiseÃ? ± o, Osaka, Japan.

1989: Gallery Genaro Torres Preciado. Bogota: Colombia ..

1990: Sociedad Bolivariana de Colombia., Bogota, Colombia.

1991: GalerÃ?Âa Art Plaza, Bogota, Colombia.

1992International Design Fair, Nagoya, Japan.

1993: Amkrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States ..

1993: Deush Welle, Cologne, Germany.

1993: Biennial Livestock Bank: Bogota Colombia.

1994: Bowless S. Gallery, Los Angeles CA. United States.

1994: Ascona Art Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.

1994: Berrest Art Centrum, Ottawa, Canada.

1995: Ascona Art Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.

1996: Ascona Art Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.

1997: Maison du Art, Monaco

1997: Tate. Gallery, London England.

1998: Art Gallery. Ontario Canada.

1999. Walker. Art gallery, Liverpool, England.

2000: Ascona Art Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.

2001: Ascona Art Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.

PERSONAL HISTORY

1963: Born in Bogota

1976: Wins ICEM-UNICEF.

1976: Enters a study Fine Arts in Whilhen Pieck Institute. Werbellinse. Germany.: Walter Gropius School.

1987-1992.Universidad de la Sabana. . Pl� Arts wrap. Colombia.

1990: Professor and Director of the Academy of arts Miguel Munoz, Bogota.

1996.Crea artistic training program and cultural.Ã ¢ â, ¬ tannins America's Finest Artists.

2000.Proyecto Arts for America and the world.

EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHER IN THE ACADEMIC AREA

1990-2002: In the arts academy in Bogota Colombia.

* Experimental work with children, youth and adults in new trends Art.

* Art education in painting and sculpture. (Basic, intermediate and advanced).,

Regular courses.

* Education in art appreciation and critical understanding of a work of art . Special courses.

* Lectures on theory and use of color, University of Colombia ..

The first movements of his brush podr1amos obviously seen in germ comes from childhood, but there is a unique milestone start since 1976. At the age of twelve years to win the contest Cime de la Unicef in his hometown of Bogota. This achievement involves the granting of a scholarship from this organization which took advantage of far to go to study for the same date at the German Institute Whilhem Pieck. His tendency in art to walk the path and influence of the old masters of the Bauhaus movement recognized that prevailing in school.

his return to Colombia undertaken new studies viewed from the perspective of conceptual art pictorial in the Sabana University, graduating later from there. Miguel Munoz an artist of diverse and deep desires dreams that have to do with the Colombian reality. Want to be painted differently and for this, nothing better than art. His works reflect the emotion of a unique human feeling, a mixture of the ancestry of the Bauhaus and the dimension of the Caribbean. feeling warm and bright spirit transmitter of Latino, representing long life and overcoming death.

MIGUEL MUNOZ IN 2003 WORKSHOP

THE CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIAL BASE

Looking at the work of this contemporary Latin American painter is the projection of a personality that wants to make art instrument of redemption for man, for women, for children. From another angle of observation, can be felt the expressive power of their knowledge of the subject. Its modern and bold approach imprisons So every stroke of his brush and the inspiration that leads to your passionate mat1z of colors, has been a material love immortal children. On these, every teacher could be reflected if actual sow illusions in those tender and promising lives, and to that end, better than paint, which can make an enduring and healthy germinating can remember staged at the paintings and pictorial outlines of the future . Because he thinks that love for art that can breed in them, create new paths, a kind of new generations more human, more real, imagine experiences producing multicolored VIDA dignity and other terms, this means that work and Miguel Munoz's work are identified with the social context that surrounds it, the history and abstract iconography for which it should be if we decipher watchful eyes rightly the good message behind it. This is a job that has passed several stages until reaching its current interpretation by a contemporary vision of reality, man, pain, suffering, god ... Without being literalist his recent works are the result of an investigation of its own, supported from the sources who has been drinking, the schools he has worked getting pleasant influences. But what is interesting about this portrayal is as able to create images that has ultimately become visual art, so that looks, to fashion an image that will help foster understanding the world we live in, because we are well and where vamos.Desde the Renaissance in Europe, passes through the distant stage now buried in the sands of human history up to the post modernism, painting has focused on issues that somehow refer to the inheritance spiritual.