JOAN MIRÓ. MALLORCA, THE WORKSHOP OF DREAMS

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On the still-soft surface of a large stoneware vase, the imprint of a hand placed there in 1956, as if by a Neolithic painter on his cave. It is that of Joan Miró, and one of the most striking images in the exhibition that the Hyacinthe Rigaud Art Museum is dedicating to his final revolution: his permanent move to Majorca, at the age of sixty-three, and the radical transformation that followed. Nearly one hundred works on loan from the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca make this one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the summer. When he arrived on the island, Miró already had a major body of work and a worldwide reputation. He could have rested. He chose the opposite. The studio designed for him by the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert became his laboratory. For almost three years, he almost entirely abandoned painting for ceramics and engraving, destroyed some of his canvases, and doubted himself. When he returned to painting in 1959, he was a different painter. The exhibition reveals this transformation through all the mediums. The ceramics fashioned with Josep Llorens Artigas, where earth and fire awaken in Miró an archaic memory. The Solar Bird in bronze from 1966, whose pure and synthetic line is inspired by the traditional ritual whistles of Majorca. The Sobreteixims from 1972, tapestries found that Miró burns, patches and repaints. And the later canvases, where he paints directly on the floor, sometimes with his fingers, blending American drip painting and Japanese calligraphy in a dance freed from any subject.

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