PERSONAL STRUCTURES

After a Fine Arts degree in Argentina, María Inés Aguirre (MIA) studied under Fabrizio Plessi at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. Her work then caught the eye of Pierre Restany, the critic who championed Yves Klein. He became a mentor, writing that Mia’s use of colour to express emotion enables her work to touch the essence of our being. Her creative process relates to artists including Paul Klee, who felt guided by a benign ‘remote will’ and Wassily Kandinsky, who said ‘colour is a power which directly influences the soul’. Music consoles and heals, touching hearts more directly than any other art. Mia keeps in tune with Arturo Toscanini’s maxim: “I don’t remember a day without sunshine, because the sunshine was in my soul”. Her long-standing series ‘The Music of Colour’ explores the liminal space between music and visual abstraction with works painted on pianos, panels, canvas and paper. “Mia’s expressiveness works within the sentiment of nature and time. Her painting thus becomes a symbol of a deep and individual memory, but also a collective, environmental, archaic and recent remembrance that touches and moves the intimate fibres of being”. (Giorgio Segato)