Joan Miro'
dal 29/5/2006 al 29/6/2006
Segnalato da
29/5/2006
Joan Miro'
Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
A sculpture by the renowned Spanish artist Joan Miro' will go on show. The work, entitled Personnage, dates from 1974 and has been given to the Museum on a two-year loan by Successio' Miro', the Miro' Estate, based in Mallorca, where the artist lived and worked for many years.
A sculpture by the renowned Spanish artist Joan Miro' will go on show at the Irish
Museum on Modern Art on Tuesday 30 May 2006. The work, entitled Personnage, dates
from 1974 and has been given to the Museum on a two-year loan by Successio' Miro', the
Miro' Estate, based in Mallorca, where the artist lived and worked for many years.
Personnage is a two-metre-high bronze sculpture in characteristically playful Miro'
style. The work is particularly noteworthy in marking a return by the artist to
modelling in wax or plaster following a long period of producing mainly assemblage
sculptures in the 1960s and early '70s. These later bronzes were frequently on a
monumental scale and many of them can be seen in prominent public spaces in New
York, Chicago, Madrid, Paris and other urban settings. Personnage is on more human
scale, fitting perfectly into its unique surroundings at IMMA. The sculpture will be
sited, initially, in the courtyard at IMMA, but may be moved to another location at
a later date.
Commenting on the loan IMMA's Director Enrique Juncosa said: "We are delighted to
add this important work by Miro' to the IMMA sculpture collection. We are hoping, in
the coming years, to make greater use of our magnificent grounds, involving the
display of a number of different sculptures by some major artists."
Born in Barcelona in 1893, Joan Miro' is widely recognised for his immense
contribution to Surrealist and Modern art. His enormously varied body of work, drawn
from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy and created over 75 years, is among
the most original of the 20th century. His early work shows a wide range of
influences from Catalan folk art to Cubism and the work of the Fauves. He spent some
time in Paris in 1920s, where under the influence of Surrealist poets and writers he
evolved his mature style, with its dreamlike visions of distorted animal forms and
odd geometric constructions, often with a whimsical or humorous quality.
Miro' paintings are instantly recognisable from their distinctive use of bright
colours - especially blue, red, yellow, green and black - and their unaffected
mixture of childlike innocence and artistic sophistication. Sculpture became a major
focus of his work in the 1960s and '70s, both painted sculptures and bronzes, such
as the work being loaned to IMMA. He also worked in a wide array of other media,
including etchings, watercolours and collage. His ceramic sculptures are especially
notable, particularly his two ceramic murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. He
died in Mallorca in 1983.
Image: Joan Miro', Personnage, 1974, Bronze, Susse Fondeur, ed. 2/4, 200 x 160 x 180 cm,
Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Loan, Successio' Miro', 2006, Image (c) Successio'
Miro'
Opening: 30 May 2006
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Military Road Kilmainham 8 - Dublin
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