1 May

Catania, until the 7 July the Joan Mirò exhibition

It will be open to visitors until 7 July 2024, at the headquarters of the Palazzo della Cultura in Catania, the exhibition “Miró – The gioia del colore” edited by Achille Bonito Oliva, in collaboration with MaïthéVallès- Bled e Vincenzo Sanfo.

On display are around one hundred works that cover a period of approximately sixty years, from 1924 al 1981. Paintings, season, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, as well as a series of graphic works, books and documents from private Italian collections and French galleries. To enrich and expand the exhibition itinerary with a double chronological and thematic reading there will also be a photographic and video section which will delve into some aspects of the private and public life of the surrealist artist. A further section is focused on his graphic works created when he collaborated with the famous magazine Derrière le Miroir, published by the Maeght gallery and the multimedia one.

JOAN MIRO’

Born in Barcelona in 1893, after studying economics, following an important health problem he moved to Paris where he met Picasso and attended Tristan Tzara's Dada circle, dedicating himself to painting, to sculpture and ceramics. After twelve years, he returns to Spain from which he leaves again for Paris following the Second World War. However, when Nazi troops besieged the French capital, he decided to go to Palma de Mallorca, where he died in 1983 at the age of one hundred.

Undisputed master of surrealism, Miró immediately expressed his disapproval of conventional painting. For him the real world, what surrounds us, it's just reality. For Miró, reality is a starting point, never arriving. Miró's works arise from the close connection between the strong shades of yellow yellow, nero, red or blue and its synthetic sign which together reinterpret the surrounding reality by subtracting everything that is not essential.