Detail on cover: Joan Miró en la Fundición Parellada. Lliçà d’Amunt (Barcelona), c. 1965. © F. Català-Roca. Fondo F. Català-Roca – Arxiu Fotogràfic de l’Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya
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Cayón Menorca is pleased to announce this summer an exhibition by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893-Palma de Mallorca, 1983). The show, the fifth in our Menorcan space since 2018, will take place between June 3 and September 9 and has the fundamental support of Successió Miró. Presenting some forty works (including more than twenty bronze sculptures), this is the most ambitious project dedicated to the artist in a commercial gallery in recent years.
Joan Miró, Cayón, Menorca, 2023.
Joan Miró, Cayón, Menorca, 2023.
The sculptures show Miró's unmistakable style and his passion for collecting and assembling elements from his natural environment, the sea and the countryside being very transcendental in his daily life. Thus, in his last period, from the sixties onwards, he set out to create a series of works that would maintain his old and fascinating attraction for the object that he had carried with him since the twenties, but with an unequivocal desire to constitute his own autonomous sculptural corpus that led him to the foundry.
La Servante, 1969
Bronze
64 x 28 x 15 cm.
MI017
Personnage, 1970
Gypsum
200 x 120 x 100 cm.
MI059
Renaud, 1970
Bronze
41 x 17 x 4 cm.
MI018
Personnage à bras ouverts
1971
Bronze
25,5 x 38 x 17 cm.
MI019
Vigneron
1972
Bronze
34 x 20 x 14 cm.
MI021
Tête, oiseau, 1973
Bronze
63 x 40 x 19 cm.
MI022
Projet pour un monument
1973
Painted bronze
133 x 22 x 28 cm.
MI023
Personnage et oiseau
1974
Bronze
109 x 49 x 48 cm.
MI026
Relief, 1974
Bronze
67 x 64 x 64 cm.
MI025
Tête de femme, 1974
Bronze
200 x 80 x 44 cm.
MI027
Lola
1977
Bronze
46 x 49,5 x 21 cm.
MI028
Jeune fille à l´étoile
1977
Bronze
48 x 33 x 40 cm.
MI029
The three-dimensional works presented in this show arise from the most varied and humble objects that, after a long process of definition based on many drawings and sketches, are finished with the casting and patination of bronze in various specialized workshops such as, in this case, Parellada in Barcelona, the Fonderia Artistica Bonvicini in Verona, Fonderie Valsuani et Fils, and Susse Fondeur, both in Paris.
Souvenir de la tour Eiffel
1977
Bronze
334 x 54 x 80 cm.
MI030
Naissance
1977
Bronze
57 x 58 x 55 cm.
MI031
Le chanteur d´opéra
1977
Bronze
55 x 70 x 13 cm.
MI035
Homme et femme
1977
Bronze
117 x 52 x 49 cm.
MI034
Gymnaste
1977
Bronze
102 x 92 x 86 cm.
MI032
Tête
1978
Bronze
34 x 29 x 19 cm.
MI036
Projet pour un monument
1979
Painted bronze
51 x 38 x 25 cm.
MI020
Torse
1981
Bronze
77 x 55 x 15 cm.
MI039
Bas-relief
1981
Bronze
41 x 34 x 3 cm.
MI038
Figure
1981
Bronze
126 x 50 x 28 cm.
MI040
Maternité
1981
Bronze
53 x 31 x 17 cm.
MI042
Tête et oiseau
1981
Bronze
125 x 26 x 51 cm.
MI041
Femme
1981
Bronze
43 x 21 x 5 cm.
MI043
One of the works selected for the exhibition is inspired by the “taula”, a type of construction from the Talayotic culture exclusive to the island of Menorca. The name taula refers to the central element of the T-shaped enclosure and owes its name to its similarity to a table. Thus, in the corresponding piece we can observe (from bottom to top), the following parts: a fragment of wooden board, a rectangular stone, a bookcover (curiously titled History of Humanity) and, finally, a whetstone with a clay shape modeled as a crescent moon that serves as a finial.
The exhibition covers many of the artist's techniques, including oil paintings on masonite and other surfaces, drawings on paper and graphic editions, which allowed Miró -one of the great engravers of the last century- to disseminate his works more widely and bring them to a wider public.
Personnages, oiseau, étoile
21/VIII/1979
Chinese ink, pencil and charcoal
on watercolor paper
36 x 50 cm.
MI052
Personnage
15/II/1977
Charcoal and graphite on gray cardboard
37,5 x 51,5 cm.
MI053
Femme et oiseaux
16/IV/1977
Pencil on corrugated cardboard
29,5 x 25 cm.
MI048
Personnage, oiseau
5/IX/1977
Wax and pencil
on Mexican paper Amate
34,5 x 25 cm.
MI051
Personnage II
15/IV/1981
Graphite on paper
27,5 x 21,7 cm.
MI050
Sans titre 3
13/V/1979 / 18/I/1980
Oil, crayons and graphite
on cardboard
32,5 x 24,8 cm.
MI054
Sans titre 8
13/V/1979 / 24/I/1980
Oil and graphite on cardboard
32 x 24,9 cm.
MI055
Les Oiseaux s’envolent vers le noir III
10/III/1973 / 29/VII/1977
Chinese ink on watercolor paper BFK Rives
45 x 57,5 cm.
MI049
Joan Miró, Cayón, Menorca, 2023.
The exhibition is accompanied by a unique catalogue written by Sir Peter Murray CBE, also including a brief biography of the artist, as well as further details of the exhibition.
You can consult the PRESS RELEASE HERE