Joan Mirò

Alchemist of signs

More than one hundred and twenty-five works covering the final creative decades of the Catalan master Joan Mirò.

The exhibition is divided into five sections: paintings, wall hangings, sculptures, ceramics and lithographs and chalcography, a range that is illustrative of the visual world and imagination of the great surrealist and magician of colour, as well as creator of a language where the sign has an  ability to evoke lyrical images.
The spectator can see thirty paintings from the early sixties to 1978, such as Woman III of 1965, the first spark of the day II of 1966, Woman and Birds of 1973, Head of 1974 and the well known  Personages, Birds and Star of 1978. There are over thirty bronze sculptures made from the sixties to the nineties such as Woman of 1966, Maternity of 1969, Silent Constellation of 1970 and Personage of  1980-81. The exhibition also shows eight wall hangings and four sobreteixims where the artist’s signs are interwoven with the tradition, soul and culture of Catalonia, ten ceramics from the Ceramic Museum of Barcelona and the Artigas Foundation and thirteen engravings that include those of the 1975 Canticle of the Sun made up of thirty-three engravings of the celebrated verses of Saint Francis of Assisi.
The exhibition begins with Personage, a great sculpture of 1974 that towers to over 4 metres in height and is lent to the city of Como by La Caixa of Barcelona. 
The exhibition has been established with in collaboration with Successió Miró, Palma de Mallorca; the Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona; the Tallers J. Llorens Artigas Foundation, Gallifa; Museu de Ceramica, Barcelona; the Català-Roca archive, Barcelona and La Caixa of Barcelona.