Mallorca dedicates the exhibition of his life to Miró

Palma is brimming with works by Joan Miró with a simultaneous exhibition in its four main exhibition centers. The city is filled with the work of this artist who lived in Palma from the mid-1950s until his death, in an early tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the great Miró anthology exhibition at Sa Llonja de Palma in 1978. The exhibition, Paysage Miró , consists of 117 pieces, including canvases, sculptures, and works on paper, as well as documents and personal objects of the artist, which are displayed in the four venues. Of these works, 53 have been loaned by the Reina Sofía, one by the MACBA, and another five by the Fundació Miró in Barcelona. The works that form part of the project cover a very extensive period in Miró's artistic career, from 1916 to 1981.

The exhibition project is the most important cultural initiative carried out to date in the Balearic Islands around Miró's creative legacy and aims to serve as a showcase for Palma's bid to become the European City of Culture in 2031. Paysage Miró is developed through four creative proposals that involve four perspectives projected onto the artist's legacy. The first of these, La guspira màgica (The Magical Spark ), opened yesterday at the Fundació Miró Mallorca and will be open to visitors until November 11. It delves into the artist's creative process through magical sparks, a concept that Miró himself defined as the role of chance, found objects, and fortuitous signals that trigger artistic creation.

The project is the most important cultural action carried out in the Balearic Islands around Miró's legacy.

It houses 38 works, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, illustrating the key stages of Miró's career after his final move to Mallorca in 1956. It also features works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Miquel Barceló, and Pablo Picasso. Visitors can admire more than 250 objects and documents from the Sert Workshop, Son Boter, and the house at Son Abrines, which reflect his relationship with these artists, who were Miró's contemporaries.

The exhibition La força inicial (The Initial Force) opens in Palma's Sa Llonja, focusing on Miró's monumental sculpture. The exhibition brings together a group of ten bronze works created between 1940 and 1970, many of them produced at the Susse (Arcueil, France) and Bonvicini (Verona, Italy) foundries, with which Miró collaborated closely. The transport of some of these figures from the Reina Sofía required dismantling the museum's entrance. These include the monumental figures Oiseau lunaire ( Moon Eye), Oiseau solaire ( Sun Eye), Maternité (Maternity), and Conque (Conque ), figures of great symbolic power, with references to the human body as well as to the plant, animal, and astral worlds.

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Color and Its Shadow will be at Casal Solleric from tomorrow until November 9. It focuses on the relationship the artist established between painting and sculpture. The exhibition shows how the artist transforms figures such as the woman, the star, and the bird into essential elements of his creative universe, both in his austere and graphic paintings and in his bronze sculptures, often constructed from everyday objects and chance finds.

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Finally, "Pintar entre les coses " (Painting Between Things) will be exhibited at Es Baluard. Among the pieces on display are two large, untitled canvases, dating from 1973 and belonging to the collection of the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca. The works, which dominate the museum's entrance, are displayed in the inverted position that the artist himself chose during his creative process, revealing his desire to transform the viewer's gaze and his constant interest in experimenting with pictorial space.

The Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) has joined this tribute with an exhibition at the Museu de Mallorca, which will focus on the artist's involvement in improving the state of contemporary art in Palma throughout the 1970s, through the so-called Sèrie Mallorca (Mallorca Series), considered one of his finest graphic works, published in 1973 by the Sala Pelaires.