Critical note

It’s always meant to be complicated. Many know that she does not say anything that can be easily understood, but art speaks to all of us. To those who believe and those who dedicate themselves to observing it, to appreciate it and, of course, why not, to enjoy it.

And though art is often in the established places, sometimes it is refused and is by chance. So I found the work of Aimée Joaristi, a painter of all time, who has spent 20 years devoting himself to interior design and architecture and now does not let the brush go.

Of course, I could not find one, found also Rebecca Wilson, curator and director of Saatchi Art Gallery in London, who has already picked twice the weekly recommendations made by the gallery and even included is in her permanent collection.

To understand your work you have to look at the source. Aimée is a citizen of the world, has indissoluble ties in many countries, and great generosity to welcome everyone within. Why speak with her is an indecipherable accent that times are approaching the Cuban accent of their parents and their childhood, and then becomes the teenager who has lived in Madrid to become a dragon.

In her studies she has always tried the creativity. In Madrid she was studied interior design and then moved to New York where she lived and studied Graphic Design for 5 years. In the middle, her parents decided to look for refuge in Costa Rica where they moved with the whole family.

That transfer was fundamental to its future. Costa Rica gave her another vision. It is a country where the strength of color is much stronger and this influence has become predominant in its way of displaying and creating plastic.

Suddenly, her life took another time and found himself living in Milan with her husband. Here she still had to adapt to the environment and without hesitation she entered the world of fashion. She decided to find new designers who would need a representative to put them in the best stores. That process opened the door to the era of interior design.

And this is that the interior was completely devoted once she returned to Costa Rica. She began to be required successfully and cultivate at the same time a restlessness of all time: draw and paint in his free moments. Until suddenly her voice alerted her, telling her that when she gave room to painting, she could not put her aside.

And so it was. For a long time that doubt made it completely to architecture and decoration. She has collaborated with a renowned Guatemalan architect Enrique Borascout and created a studio in San Jose. She began to distinguish himself as recognized in the guild and without doubt got honors, the National Youth Award in 2008 and 2009 in more than one category.

Just over a year ago, the picture called her sincerely. And since her world had many parts, she started to work firmly. Her works call into question the values of institutional art and the interventions that make it concern geometric painting.

Her compositions are just another way of seeing the world, which through many parts becomes one. With great sincerity she began to work, seeking in various places to create a new proposal, no doubt novel and disturbing.

So when you look at a work of these you have to tell what I can see there, what makes me feel this? We will all have different answers, but there will be Aimée’s triumph on awakening in those who observe, different emotions.

And that work is taking her away. Not only do I get to a place at the Saatchi Gallery, but her creations have made room in several collections including Francisco Cantos Baquedano, one of the founding members of the ARCO Council in Madrid or private collection Fernández Iturbide in Mexico

Follow her, her work has a lot to say and can help us find fragments of art that undoubtedly live in our private universe.

By Kryssia Ortega