Aimée Joaristi
Aimée Joaristi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Aimée Joaristi Argüelles August 24, 1957 Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation(s) | Interior designer, architect and visual artist |
| Years active | 2017–present |
| Notable work | Tres cruces (2018), Manifiesto Púb(l)ico (2019) |
| Movement | Expressionism |
| Website | www |
Aimée Joaristi (born 24 August 1957) is a Cuban artist.[1][2][3] Her work includes painting, art installation, video art, photography, and performance.[1][2][3]
Joaristi's work has been featured in individual and collective exhibitions. Her pieces are held in public and private collections in Cuba, Chile, Latvia, Spain, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and the United States.[3][4]
Biography
Joaristi was born in the Cuban capital of Havana and lived there with her family until the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Following civil unrest, her family relocated to Miami when she was three years old.[2] The family later moved to Madrid, Spain, where her paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents resided.[2]
During her time in Madrid, Joaristi visited museums and galleries with her uncle and traveled throughout Europe with her parents. She developed an interest in the work of Salvador Dalí, which later influenced elements of surrealism in her own art. At 17, she began studying interior architecture in Madrid. At 20, she started studying graphic design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.[1][2]
She worked in the fashion industry in Milan and as an interior designer, later opening an architecture and interior design studio in Costa Rica.[5][6]
In 2008, she began to focus exclusively on her art.[1]
Her work is held in permanent collections at the Museo de Artes Decorativas y Diseño (Latvia), Arte Al Límite (Chile), Kendall Art Center (United States), Museo Wifredo Lam (Cuba), Museo La Neomudéjar (Spain), and Museo Zapadores (Spain).[7]
Awards and recognition
Joaristi received the International Emerging Artist Award (IEAA) in 2016 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine and the Artist of the Future Award in 2020. Her work was selected seven consecutive times for the Pop and Op Surrealism collection at the Saatchi Gallery (2013); and for foulards by Ostinelli Seta (2014). Commissioned works include "The End of the Beginning" (2015, Saatchi Gallery).[4]
Featured art projects
Tres cruces (2018)
This work addresses a tragic event that occurred in Costa Rica on April 6, 1986, when seven women were raped and murdered after participating in a pilgrimage in La Cruz de Alajuelita.[1] The criminal case of La Cruz de Alajuelita remains unresolved, and no one has been publicly prosecuted in connection with the crimes. Joaristi's work reflects on the connection between the languages of her previous work and how abstraction and landscape guide the viewer through the geography of the event.[1][8]
...The place was very close to me both because of its location in the Cerros de San Miguel of Escazú where I live, and because it is the destination for morning walks where I start my day. Without further ado, and in search of images (...) to articulate this project, I threw myself voraciously on the mountain, armed with a camera, a cane, and water. I went up without thinking about the effort. I only thought about the meaning I should give to this fact and how to "appropriate" a tragic moment, ruled by the pain of others, to translate that experience through the language of art.[8]
Tres Cruces is a video installation complemented with painting and photography, combining traditional art and technology. It comprises three scenes or spaces that depict the gender violence surrounding this event and is accompanied by video art showing the current crime scene.
This work was exhibited at the Museo C.A.V. La Neo-Mudejar in Madrid.[8]
Manifesto Público (2019)
This work addresses the struggle to eradicate inequality and machismo from society and aims to reconstruct the image of women outside of socially patriarchal prejudices and stigmas.[5] Public Manifesto is a work of space appropriation in which the artist seeks to de-sexualize and naturalize women's bodies.[9] The depiction is not strictly realistic but serves as an explicit social reference. This work has been exhibited internationally and has elicited various reactions based on cultural perspectives on sexuality in countries such as Cuba, Japan, Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, the United States, and South Africa.[1][9]
Books
Joaristi's work is included in:[4]
- Silencios y gritos (2015)[10]
- The Best of 2016: International Emerging Artists (2016)
- Entre Siglos: Arte Contemporáneo de Centroamérica y Panamá (2016)
- Arte Al Límite (2017)
- The First Berliner Art Book (2017)
- Important World Artists (2017)
- Lenguaje Sucio (2019)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Batet, Janet (28 November 2020). "Aimée Joaristi: 'Solo el osado podría crear un guion de su propia vida'" [Aimée Joaristi: 'Only the daring could create a script of their own life']. Hypermedia Magazine (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ a b c d e Vallée, François (4 May 2021). "Aimée Joaristi: 'No hay mejor obra que la no realizada'" [Aimée Joaristi: 'There is no better work than that which is not done']. Hypermedia Magazine (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 December 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ a b c Joaristi, Aimée (2021). "Biography". Website of Aimée Joaristi.
- ^ a b c Joaristi, Aimée (2021). "Trajectory". Website of Aimée Joaristi.
- ^ a b Fleites, Alex (19 February 2021). "Aimée Joaristi: "yo soy mi obra"" [Aimée Joaristi: "I am my work"]. On Cuba News (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 August 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ Ortega, Kryssia (2017). "Aimée Joaristi | X Metro | Art Management Berlin at WHITECONCEPTS". Art at Berlin. Archived from the original on 9 February 2025. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ Lam Chen, Iris (1 February 2023). "Retrospectiva de carrera de artista costarricense se expone en importante museo en España" [A retrospective of the Costa Rican artist's career is on display at a major museum in Spain]. La Voz de Goicoechea (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ a b c Joaristi, Aimée (2018). "Three crosses". Website of Aimée Joaristi.
- ^ a b Joaristi, Aimée (2019). "Manifiesto Púb(l)ico | Pub(l)ic Manifest". Website Aimée Joaristi.
- ^ Joaristi, Aimée (2015). Silencios y gritos [Silences and Screams] (in Spanish). Essays by Sara G. Arjona (Spain), Paulina Ascencio (México), Elizabeth Barquero (Costa Rica), Elvia Rosa Castro (Cuba), Silvia Herrera Ubico (Guatemala), Marcela Valdeavellano Valle (Guatemala) and Yoab Vera (México). Mixedmedia Press. OCLC 1000384848.