(b.Brazil, 1943).
His works maintain a dialogue with the history of painting. His work is best connected to American Post War Art, especially Color Field painting. Aquila's paintings are never monotonously uniform, merely filling in preconceived drawings with automatic gestures. When shown together, each painting merges with the others, creating a solid mental space that, when perceived by the spectator, appear to form one large work. In this manner, his paintings are under constant evolution from the viewer's perspective. Aquila states that his paintings have a necessity of expanding, conquering new spaces, winning distances, overcoming the work's "Virtual Borders". In the 1980s he was a teacher at the University of Brasilia and in Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro influencing the generation of young artists active at that time. Aquila participated at the 17th Venice Biennial and the 18th Sao Paulo Biennial. In 1992 he had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio.
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