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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
Collective:
Sala Josep Renau, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,
Spain
1997
Collective:
Individual:
Individual:
“Art Jove”, Galería Alhadros, Eivissa, Balears,
Spain
“Teteria Hierbabuena”, Valencia, Spain
“Bar-Galería Los Picapiedra”, Valencia, Spain
1998
Collective:
“Supermercado del Arte”, Eivissa, Balears, Spain
1998
Individual:
Individual:
“Pub Area”, Eivissa, Balears, Spain
“Bar-Galería Negrito”, Valencia, Spain
1999
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
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
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
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.
José P Ribas
josepribas@liveibiza.com
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