Joaquim Gomis
Contents: Over 160 photographs taken between 1922 and the 1960s.
Contents: Over 160 photographs taken between 1922 and the 1960s.
Joan Miró: Gaudí Series Joan Miró coincided with Antoni Gaudí as a young man in the model drawing sessions at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, and although they never met in person, Miró always expressed great admiration for Gaudí’s work, particularly his spirit of risk-taking and improvisation.
Contents: Sculptures, installations and photographs produced between 1973 and 2002 by nineteen contemporary artists who take different attitudes to the concept of space.
Sponsored by the Fundación BBVAContents: The first ever retrospective exhibition in Barcelona of Arp’s work, with more than 140 paintings, collages, reliefs and sculptures produced between 1912 and 1965.
Curator: Grazia Quaroni"Every game is a system of rules.What gives meaning to the rules is the desire to play."Roger Caillois, Les jeux et les hommes, 1958Art and play are both a necessity.
Irony, selected by Ferran Barenblit, contains works by different contemporary artists with very different discourses and dealing with different subjects, but having in common the use of irony in their work.
Text by Michel François, Psycho-garden Michel François, 44, one of the most African-influenced Belgian artists, presents an intervention at the Fundació Miró called Psycho-garden.
Joan Miró: Parade of Obsessions Joan Miró: Parade of Obsessions is an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphic works and lithographs that demonstrates how Miró’s plastic-poetic vocabulary is shaped by a series of images that are used repeatedly and independently of the technique chosen.
Joseph Grigely: Information. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. 26 April–10 June 2001. Photograph from the Miró family archive. With thanks to: Joan Punyet Miró, Martí Català Pedersen, Amy Vogel and Marcia Tucker.
The exhibition will offer the most comprehensive view yet of the experimental, rebellious, magical, lyrical universe of one of the most important Catalan avant-garde creative artists.
Nicola Costantino: Sophistication Sophism n. (from the Latin sophisma, from the Greek sóphisma). A fallacious argument or faulty syllogism, intended to make falsehoods appear as truths.
Mark Rothko, curated by Rosa Maria Malet and Oliver Wick, containing works produced from 1935 until shortly before the artist's death in 1970, pays special attention to the configuration of a singular style and to the importance that Rothko attached to the arrangement of his paintings in space as items for meditation.