Juan Miró Exhibition Will Remain In Mallorca Until Mid-november

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'Landscape', 1974 and 'Woman, Bird and Star [Tribute to Picasso], 1966-1973, some astatine nan Fundació Miró Mallorca | Credit: Arxiu Fundació Pilar/Roberto Ruiz

From now done November 11th, Palma will beryllium brimming pinch useful by Joan Miró pinch a simultaneous accumulation successful its 4 main accumulation centres.

In an early tribute to nan fiftieth day of his Sa Llonja de Palma Exhibition successful 1978, nan metropolis has been covered pinch nan activity of this creator who was calved successful Barcelona connected April 20th, 1893 but lived successful Palma from nan mid-1950s until his decease connected December 25th, 1983.

The exhibition, Paysage Miró, consists of 117 pieces, including canvases, sculptures, and useful connected paper, arsenic good arsenic documents and individual objects of nan artist, which are displayed successful nan 4 venues. Of these works, 53 person been loaned by nan Reina Sofía, 1 by nan MACBA, and different 5 by nan Fundació Miró successful Barcelona. The useful that shape portion of nan task screen a very extended play successful Miró’s creator career, from 1916 to 1981.

The astir important taste initiative

The accumulation task is nan astir important taste inaugural carried retired to day successful nan Balearic Islands astir Miró’s imaginative bequest and intends to service arsenic a showcase for Palma’s bid to go nan European City of Culture successful 2031.

Paysage Miró is developed done 4 imaginative proposals that impact 4 perspectives projected onto nan artist’s legacy. The first of these, La guspira màgica (The Magical Spark ), opened yesterday astatine nan Fundació Miró Mallorca and will beryllium unfastened to visitors until November 11. 

It delves into nan artist’s imaginative process done magical sparks, a conception that Miró himself defined arsenic nan domiciled of chance, recovered objects, and fortuitous signals that trigger creator creation.

It houses 38 works, including paintings, sculptures, and useful connected paper, illustrating nan cardinal stages of Miró’s profession aft his last move to Mallorca successful 1956. It besides features useful by artists specified arsenic Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Miquel Barceló, and Pablo Picasso. 

Visitors tin respect much than 250 objects and documents from nan Sert Workshop, Son Boter, and nan location astatine Son Abrines, which bespeak his narration pinch these artists, who were Miró’s contemporaries.

The accumulation La força inicial (The Initial Force) opens successful Palma‘s Sa Llonja, focusing connected Miró’s monumental sculpture.

Miró successful sculptures and paintings

Colour and Its Shadow will beryllium astatine Casal Solleric from tomorrow until November 9. It focuses connected nan narration nan creator established betwixt coating and sculpture. The accumulation shows really nan creator transforms figures specified arsenic nan woman, nan star, and nan vertebrate into basal elements of his imaginative universe, some successful his austere and schematic paintings and successful his bronze sculptures, often constructed from mundane objects and chance finds.

Finally, “Pintar entre les coses ” (Painting Between Things ) will beryllium exhibited astatine Es Baluard. Among nan pieces connected show are 2 large, untitled canvases, making love from 1973 and belonging to nan postulation of nan Pilar one Joan Miró Foundation successful Mallorca.

The Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) has joined this tribute pinch an accumulation astatine nan Museu de Mallorca, which will attraction connected nan artist’s engagement successful improving nan authorities of modern creation successful Palma passim nan 1970s, done nan alleged Sèrie Mallorca (Mallorca Series), considered 1 of his finest schematic works, published successful 1973 by nan Sala Pelaires.

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