New presentation of the Collection
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Curated by Teresa Montaner and Marta Ricart, this new presentation is based on the inseparable pairing made up of the works and space that structure the route and give meaning to each room.
Inspiration for the project comes from a portfolio of work that Miró produced in the latter half of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s, preserved in the valuable archive of drawings that the artist donated to the Fundació Joan Miró. In these documents, which reflect on space and time as the cornerstones of Miró’s practice, there beats an idea of a new way of relating people to art. The reorganisation rekindles this intuition to bring it into the present day: the exhibition will foster an experience built on the multiple relationships between the works, the space and people.
Sert’s architecture plays a pivotal role in this renewed route. The artist and the architect had already worked side by side to devise specific spaces for specific works, and this logic becomes crucial once again: the building determines rhythms, perspectives and thresholds that activate one’s gaze. The Cypress Garden will open to the public, thereby triggering a dialogue between interior and exterior to allow the space to breathe and the works to connect with their environment and the light that surrounds them.
The reorganisation has been conceived as a living exhibition, lasting two years and with constant movement of the works from four focus areas to be deployed successively. This dynamism will help to generate new dialogues and readings of Miró, expanding the interpretative frameworks to include fields such as architecture, astrophysics, geology or the performing arts. Activities, workshops and conferences will complement this process and provide opportunities to reconsider Miró’s work from a variety of angles.
With more than 100 works, the reorganisation has been made possible by the founding generosity of Joan Miró, his family, Kazumasa Katsuta and the collectors and institutions that have donated or lent works.
