Distraction - Communication Typing Music - works by: Maria Ines Aguirre - MIA

Music is a language and means of communication through which we can share

Distraction -Communication

emotions, understanding - and perhaps also dreams.

Typing Music - works by: Maria Ines Aguirre - MIA

Rapid technological advance has led to an increase in the diversity, availability

In the contemporary world where various forms of social media constantly

and ways in which we engage with music. The digital revolution, coupled with

compete for our attention and distract us from the actual physical present, the

developments in miniaturisation, mean that any music can now be heard at

3D works on show at The St.Botolph Building aim to bring the viewer into the

any time by countless people around the world. Text messages, emoticons and

moment.

social media are also revolutionising the way we interact and write.

For Maria Ines Aguirre -MIA, art is the universal language of emotions through

All the works on show take aspects of the contemporary experience and in the

which she transforms her ideas into physical objects.

process of transforming an idea into a physical object, synthesise the artist response to this encounter with the world.

Whilst being informed by these multifarious aspects of the present life, in the digital age the fragmented masses of information interrupt and fill our conscious and subconscious minds. The exhibited works aim at catching the viewers’ attention and focus them mentally and physically into the here and Take a letter

Write to Ines

Typing Music

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now.

The visual experience is uniquely capable of engaging the passerby and in conjunction with the architectural space of The St. Botolph Building creating a moment of visual stimulation and a happy distraction from the everyday.

Escribe con el corazón

Come to find me

ArtMoorHouse Projects aim is to establish a unique platform for promoting an unsurpassed synergy

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between creativity and business. We create curated visual experiences and presentations, working

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For any information please contact Elisa Martinelli E. info@artmoorhouse.com T. +447502211914

with emerging and internationally acclaimed artists. We strive to engage, inspire and provide a talking point and an ice breaker in the banking and commercial environment.

CHROMASOUL

There is a profound connection between music and abstract art and the word often applied to both is colour. In 2008 Maria Ines Aguirre - MIA visited the Steinway factory in Hamburg and became fascinated by the process of making pianos. Two years later, she ended up painting a concert grand piano at Steinway Hall in London.

The unforgettable experience of transforming a black piano into ‘Dancing Soul’ was inspired by ‘Les Ballets Russes’ and Diaghilev, a fascination which started with a childhood memory of her mother taking her to see Maya Plisetskaya dance in the North of Argentina.

The late Pierre Restany, the critic who discovered Yves Klein, became interested in MIA’s work after she finished at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. In the preface to the catalogue of her 2003 show at the Centro Borges, Buenos Aires, Restany wrote that in an age in which art has become over-rational, Mia’s use of colour to reflect emotion reaches the essence of the human condition.

Maria Ines Aguirre - MIA spent 2018 in her studio, with a brand new Steinway Model D piano as her canvas. She called it ‘Chromasoul’. It explores the relationship between music and Nature, most obviously through Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy and through music inspired by faith, including Messaien and Domenico Zipoli, an 18th century Jesuit who taught music to the Guarani people in Paraguay, close to the area where MIA was born.

MIA identifies with Paul Klee’s thought that his hand was ‘guided by a remote will’ and with Kandinsky’s insight that ‘colour is a power which directly influences the soul’. MIA doesn’t play the piano, but Chromasoul amplifies the energy of music with myriad colours and forms. Kandinsky seemed to anticipate this when he said ‘Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?’

The inside of the piano lid reflects MIA’s experience of painting open heart surgery and a surgeon’s comment that ‘opening a heart is like opening a piano, since each human being has their own music’. Each dot on the piano represents the soul of a human being and also a musical note. Each has infinite possibilities and combinations. Harnessed by our heart beats, music creates the harmony that keeps us in tune with the planet and with each other, but MIA’s strongest impulse is the enthusiasm that grows during a creative journey through a rich palette of colours.

Orchestrating superb oil paints made by Michael Harding to create ‘Chromasoul', Maria Ines Aguirre - MIA has transformed the golden energy the sun into an exuberant symbiosis of music, spirit and colour.

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