Rodolfo Aguirre Tinoco

Who is Rodolfo Aguirre Tinoco?

Rodolfo Aguirre Tinoco is a Mexican artist.

Born in 1927, Aguirre Tinoco studied at the Academy of San Carlos, the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda".

He has had over forty individual exhibitions and has participated in over 370 collective ones in both Mexico and abroad including the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Museo Carrillo Gil, the Museo de Arte Moderno, the National Academy Galleries in New York and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. His work can be found in the collections of the Mexican Engraving and Print Museum in Bulgaria, the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Morelia and the Museo Amecatlel in Mexico City. He has also exhibited at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, of which he is a member.

His work is a combination of free forms with elements which are done realistically in detail. His idea is to deepen the psyche of man, depicting both the negative and positive aspects of humanity in his art.