Ibrahim Miranda - Dumbo and the Candies, A Misunderstanding

"Dumbo and the Candies, A Misunderstanding” 48 1/2 × 44 1/2 in | 123.2 × 113 cm Edition of 35 + 1AP Artist: Ibrahim Miranda  This work was printed at Brand X Editions in NYC, a well known master printer.  Ibrahim Miranda is from Pinar del Rio, and currently lives and works in Havana. He is one of Cuba's most important visual artists and printmakers, who began showing his work in Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and the US shortly after graduating from the Instituto Superior de Arte. He has since gained international recognition for his work based on maps, particularly maps of Cuba, emphasizing qualities of water and isolation, suggesting a state of metamorphosis and change. Miranda’s Mapaglifos series imaginatively redefines the borders of cities as animals, ascribing symbolic meaning to each metropolis and chronicling the shape shifting nature of our annexed world. With poetry inspired in “Islandness” as a concept with all the thematic connotations and psychology it entails, Miranda rei