Chiostro del Bramante presents Miro! Poetry and light, an exhibition on view 16/03/2012 to 10/06/2012.
Joan Miro, Senza Titolo, 1978. Olio su compensato, 64 x 64 cm
The exhibition features over 80 works never reached before in Italy country, including 50 oils of surprising beauty and of great size, but also pottery, bronzes and watercolors.
You can admire the masterpieces, the oils in the street Woman (1973) and Untitled (1978), the bronzes as a Woman (1967), including the sketches for the mural for Harkness Commons-Harvard University, all from Palma de Mallorca where the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró holds many works by the artist, granted in a totally unique for the Italian premiere.
The event will be held at the Cloister of Bramante in Rome from 16 March to 10 June 2012. With the patronage of the Spanish Embassy, the exhibition Miró! Poetry and light is produced and organized by Arthemisia Group, 24 HOURS Culture – Gruppo 24 ORE and DART Cloister of Bramante, in collaboration with the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró.
The curator is Maria Luisa Lax Cacho, considered internationally leading experts of the work of Miró, who wished to illustrate the final stage of production of long life, when he finally materialized in Majorca in 1956 his dream: a large space all its own, where work protected by the silence and peace that only nature could offer. During the exhibition, the studio that Miró had longed for was spectacularly rebuilt in the exhibition spaces.
“The meeting between fantasy and control, prudence and generosity, which perhaps can be considered a feature of the Catalan mentality may explain, at least in part, the fundamental basis of art and personality of Joan Miró.” So Dorfles wrote in an essay on the artist Catalan. That ‘s why I think it would be beneficial to the frame of the Renaissance Cloister of Bramante as counterpoint to the spirit multiforme Miró and his language made up of spots, graphics, splashes, fingerprints, abrasions, stitches and nails.
Since the beginning of its activities Miró felt that the artist’s aim should relate to major projects such as murals and other works of public art that also offered the opportunity to collaborate with architects and craftsmen, leaving the painting easel a secondary position. The public art projects by Miró are characterized instead by a synthesis between architecture and fine arts, also derived from his deep admiration for Antoni Gaudí. Completely abandoned the easel, Miró painted on the ground, walking on their canvases, there is spread over producing splashes and drips, to spend the last years of painting with his fingers, spreading the color with their fists and sneaking in painting material, spreading the dough on plywood, cardboard and recycling materials.
The catalog is published by Culture 24 HOURS – 24 HOURS Group and presents essays by Elvira Cámara, Luisa María Lax Cacho, Josep Luis Sert and two interviews with Joan Miró made by Yvon Taillandier. – hiostrodelbramante.it