António Mira

Antonio Mira He is a Portuguese visual artist, born in Lisbon. Portugal, in 1953. It was in this city that he completed his academic studies, graduating in History.

Her debut in the art world occurred in 1974, and during the following five years her work focused on creating... facilities and performances.

As a painter, he initially presented a painting informal, characterized by "the pleasure of sin, the intoxication of matter and gesture," in his own words. The sense of excess and euphoria remained in his work, which began to pay great attention to the medium. He introduced the interaction of materialsusing the spray and presenting monochromatic areas that he subdivided using different materials, so that no zone was considered figure or ground.

Throughout his work, the interaction of materials is noticeable, using, for example, steel bars to divide the overall area of the painting. The relief, color, and material of these bars highlight, by contrast, their physical presence, just as the physical presence of more traditional pigments and supports does. The artist himself defined his paintings as "walls of contemplation" where one can find "being as object". Some of his paintings take on a strong chromaticism of whites, yellows and reds, always respecting the frontality of the support.