Ciudad con insignias antiguas (City with Ancient Badges)
- Mixed Media (Oil and Collage)
- 100 x 120 cm
- 2025
- Enmarcación: No
- Certificado: Sí
$4.039
“Ciudad con insignias antiguas (City with Ancient Badges)” (2025) is a masterful large-format piece (100 x 120 cm) where Miguel Betancourt explores the city as a space of visual archaeology. On an organic support of hemp canvas, the artwork merges oil and collage in a highly textured mixed media technique. A composition where historical symbols and chromatic abstraction meet to redefine the contemporary landscape.
Description
Exploration of Memory and Color In this 2025 artwork, Miguel Betancourt immerses us in an imaginary cartography where the city ceases to be a physical space to become a container of symbols. The use of hemp canvas is not accidental; its roughness and weave bring a material vibration evoking earth and the passage of time, central elements in the artist’s poetics.
Technique and Composition Featuring imposing dimensions of 100 x 120 cm, the piece dominates the space through a bold contrast between deep blues, vital reds, and accents of pink and yellow. The mixed media technique allows the collage to integrate seamlessly with oil paint, creating “badges” —forms resembling fragments of ancient shields or glyphs— floating in a deconstructed urban structure.
Collector Value “Ciudad con insignias antiguas (City with Ancient Badges)” represents Betancourt’s artistic maturity, where mastery of color unites with deep research into support and texture. It is an ideal piece for spaces seeking a powerful, sophisticated artistic presence deeply rooted in the tradition of contemporary Andean expressionism.
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“In Miguel Betancourt’s work, color is not mere filling; it is a living language that rescues the transparency of wax paper to remind us that light is the soul of form.”
Humberto Montero Estrella