The creative process in time. Exposition Miró. A Collection by Barrié Foundation

Description of project by Barrié Foundation

The Barrié Foundation presents the "Miró. A Collection" exhibition, with 47 works by Joan Miró (Barcelona, ​​1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983), an unavoidable reference in the history of European painting and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Painter, sculptor, ceramist, and engraver, he was one of the greatest exponents of Surrealism and one of the Spanish artists with the greatest international projection, whose work came to exert great influence both on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations.
 
With this exhibition, the Barrié Foundation takes up its line of temporary painting exhibitions of historical interest that aims to bring Galicia the best of national and international artists. In this framework, samples of great artists such as Pablo Ruiz Picasso, El Greco, and Joaquín Sorolla, among others, have been presented.
 
40 of the works come from the Collection that Fundación MAPFRE shows in its "Espacio Miró" in Madrid, donated by different owners as temporary storage. The selection of these works is made up of 35 oil paintings on different supports, 2 drawings, and 2 watercolors with India ink. Although most of them are pieces from the last decades, we can find paintings from different periods and with different motifs: constellations, women, birds, stars, and other types of characters.
 
In this way, one can see how Miró continually takes up the same themes, reinventing them and giving them new vitality. Perhaps what most characterizes this collection is that, although, on the one hand, it presents the last decades in Miró's artistic career - a more unknown period that has only recently begun to receive the attention and enthusiasm of critics - on the other. , exposes almost all the issues that have interested the artist since its inception. Many times it is a kind of reunion with them, which allows giving them a fuller meaning.
 
The other 7 works on display, from public and private collections, join this exhibition to contextualize his creative process and bring Miró's figure and work closer to the public in a more didactic way. To this end, space will be created that will house the bronze sculpture Tête de Femme, from 1974. The final work will be accompanied by all the pieces that precede it, such as the preparatory drawings, the first painted clay model, and the plaster models. , then. In this way, the visitor has the opportunity to accompany the artist throughout his creative process, from his thought embodied in drawings with few strokes to the finished work.