After spending the summer driving around all over the Island visiting
some of our best-known international artists, sculptors, ceramists and
painters, it was lovely to find an artist almost on our doorstep this
week.
It
means we have the opportunity and the privilege to show some of the new
works of Aída Miró Vicente, at the age of 26 already being seen as one
of our most talented and creative young painters.
We
travelled just five kilometres from Sant Antoni to Buscastell - or
“Forada”, as the area should be properly known. There, right in front of
the tiny church that doesn’t look like a church, is the “Bar-Art-Gallery
Can Tixedó”, where Aída Miró exhibits her latest creations.
The
gallery was opened in the bar about four years ago by a young
businessman and art-lover, Juan Colomar, the eldest son of the Colomar
family, “Juanito de Can Tixedó” (he himself possesses a real, natural
talent for drawing and the opening of the gallery was the result of his
artistic interest).
Since its opening, the gallery has been working non-stop, showing
exhibitions successfully one after the other all the year around.
From
the very beginning, Juanito and the gallery had the support and the
backing of real experts, some of the best artists from the Island and
also his personal friends (Toni Hormigo, Julio Bauzá, Mario Stafforini,
Pedro Hormigo and Ginés among others). Their advice and exhibitions have
helped a lot in the success and the good name of the gallery.
But
one of the intentions of Juanito, as gallery manager, is to open doors
to new, young, talented artists. He always keeps a few weeks in the year
to exhibit new material from new artists, local or outsiders, as he did
two years ago with Aída Miró in her first individual exhibition in Sant
Antoni (her second individual exhibition on the Island).
So
we all met last Tuesday, Aída Miró, Juanito Tixedó, Gary and I, to see
and to witness Aída’s latest works “Desnudas y Bailando”, as she
has called the series of paintings that she is presenting in this
exhibition.
What
we can see at the gallery is a selection of paintings of female bodies
that in my opinion are done with a technique that is improving in every
new work and contain quite a good dose of female sensitiveness and
sensuality.
But
they are also done with intense passion as one can see in the strong and
hot background colours.
Aída
Miró Vicente was born in Eivissa on 14th August 1976, and
passed her childhood living in the country with her Ibicenco family.
In
1992, at the age of sixteen, Aída started her artistic studies at the
“Escola d’Arts i Oficis d’Eivissa” (the local Art School), where she
passed her first degrees in Art. Two years later, Aída matriculated in
Fine Arts at the Valencia University (Facultad de Bellas Artes San
Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), in which she gained the
highest marks in 2000.
She
started studying the speciality of art restoration, because “I was very
interested in knowing and learning the techniques and the processing of
this discipline. But after a time, I felt like I had to do my own. I got
tired of working on somebody else’s jobs, so, I started doing my own
paintings.
“I
always used oil-paint, I also have used other techniques, basically to
know them, but with the oil I get the results that I want.”
“I
started with paintings related to Africa and the “black” music. They
were always figurative, the human figure and portraits.
“When I finished my studies, after passing my degrees, I went for a trip
and I ended up in a circus school in Barcelona (Escuela de Circo Rogelio
Rivel). For two years I was studying circus techniques, like acrobatics,
theatre, dance and humour. Then I had very little time for painting.
Even so, I carried on painting also exhibiting and presenting my
paintings to concourses.
“In
this, my last exhibition for the moment, “Desnudas y Bailando”
(Naked and Dancing) I mean to reflect a little of this world, the
performance, the spectacle, in which I have introduced myself. This
exhibition is also exclusively of feminine themes. I work with naked
bodies and ballerinas, the movement and the human figure.
“I
never had a studio exclusively mine, just for painting; I have always
painted at home, waiting for the place and the time to begin to paint,
most of the times at night when my family was in bed. Then I had the
place and the time for me to paint.
“In
my house in Barcelona, the apartment walls were painted pink with red
and purple. This is why I started using these background colours in my
glamorous girls’ paintings in this exhibition.
“I
believe that femininity can never be as well represented by man as by
woman; it is seen from another point of view, with other eyes.
“Women have always been a high motive of inspiration, representing the
beauty for the masculine eyes, for painters and poets, but also the
greed of possession, of domination
“I
paint from references of photography that I take myself or that I find
in good photography books and adapt them to my representative
intentions. Most of the time these photos are black and white, then I
choose the colours that I want to use. They can be very varied,
depending on how I feel at the time, the ideas and feelings that I try
to express in my paintings.
“Colours always have been what impassionate me most in the paintings;
the sensations that they produce and the effects that one can reach with
the contrast of them.
“Now
my plans are to keep on studying. I’m very interested in the world of
performance, of the circus and the spectacle, and to paint about this
world. In September I will go to Bristol, in the UK, where I will start
a new course of scenography. It is my intention to increase my
knowledge in the two fields, to join the two worlds, to create
scenography and paintings inspired by this world and its people.
“The
world of art galleries doesn’t interest me so much. I think there is a
little too much frivolity in it. All I really want is to have more time
to learn and paint, to be able to follow a line of creativity that I
have - more or less - already got clear in my mind.”
Exhibitions
1996
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Collective: |
Sala Josep Renau,
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain |
1997
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Collective:
Individual:
Individual: |
“Art Jove”, Galería Alhadros, Eivissa,
Balears, Spain
“Teteria Hierbabuena”, Valencia, Spain
“Bar-Galería Los Picapiedra”, Valencia, Spain |
1998
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Collective: |
“Supermercado del
Arte”, Eivissa, Balears, Spain |
1998
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Individual:
Individual: |
“Pub Area”, Eivissa,
Balears, Spain
“Bar-Galería Negrito”, Valencia, Spain |
1999
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Collective: |
“XX Certamen Minicuadros”, Casa de Cultura de
Elda
“Proyecto l’Atzucat”, Facultad de San Carlos, U. P. De Valencia,
Spain
“Art Jove” Exposición Itinerante, Balears, Spain (4th
Award)
“BP Portrait Award”, Ustler Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
“Colegio Mayor Galileo Galilei”, U. P. De Valencia, Spain |
2000
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Individual:
Collective:
Collective: |
“Bar-Galería Can
Tixedó”, Buscastell, Eivissa, Balears, Spain
“En la piel del Cordero”, Sala Micalet 1, Valencia, Spain
“Art Jove” Exposición Itinerante, Balears, Spain |
2001
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Individual:
Collective:
Collective:
Collective: |
“Bar-Galería On”,
Barcelona, Spain
“Art Jove” Exposición Itinerante, Balears, Spain
“Bienal Nacional de Pintura Victor Siurana”, Lleida, Spain
“Bar-Galería Can Tixedó”, Buscastell, Eivissa, Balears, Spain |
2002
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Individual: |
“Teteria La
Clandestina”, Barcelona, Spain
“Bar-Galería Can Tixedó”, Buscastell, Eivissa, Balears, Spain |
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Aída
Miró and Es Vedrà
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Aída Miró Painting
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Asucar
Oil on linen 62 x 51 cm 1995
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Niños Sin Hogar
Oil on linen 81 x 116 cm 1996
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Ana En El 2069
Oil on board 27 x 41 cm 1997
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Hada
Técnica al fresco 90 x 140 cm 1997
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Africano
Oil on linen 27 x 41 cm 1998
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Sexo Sutil En Shangai
Oil on linen 81 x 81 cm 1998
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Las 3 Gatas
Oil on hardboard 40 x 51 cm 1998
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Culo 1
Oil on linen 50 x 40 cm 1999
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Tetas 1
Oil on linen 70 x 50 cm 1999
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The Grand Master
Oil on linen 97 x 130 cm 1999
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Cachonda
Oil on linen 92 x 73 cm 1999
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Rasta
Oil on cardboard 24 x 34 cm 2000
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Marina
Oil on linen 20 x 25 cm 2000
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Preocupado
Oil on linen 34 x 27 cm 2001
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Nena
Oil on hardboard 18 x 27 cm 2001
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Retrato
Oil on linen 27 x 50 cm 2001
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Super Fashion
Oil on linen 81 x 100 cm 2001 |
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India
Oil on linen 31 x 42 cm 2001 |
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All Pictures Courtesy of
Aída Miró Vicente
Details: If you should require any further information about Aída Miró
and her work then please don’t hesitate to contact this office at your
own convenience. |