The most transcendental Miró
An exhibition invites us to reflect on the importance of asceticism and mysticism in his creative process.
The exhibition Joan Miró. Mystique and avant-garde arrives at the Diocesan Museum and the Barcelona Cathedral and offers us the opportunity to delve into Miró's creative universe based on his relationship with mysticism and the transcendence of religious and literary events.
During the visit, we will be able to observe 55 creations (oils, gouache, watercolors and lithographs), as well as some Romanesque works that are part of the collections of the Museu Diocesà de Barcelona and that have been incorporated into the exhibition, such as the front of Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, from the 13th century, and which help to better understand the influence that the iconography of the Romanesque and Gothic styles of Catalonia exerted on Miró. Also exhibited are works that are part of the series of etchings on the work Canticle of Brother Sun, by Saint Francis of Assisi, which Miró created in 1975 under the title Canticle of the Sun. The works come from the Amyc-Fran Daurel Foundation, the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Palma or the Joan Prats gallery, among others.
At the same time, the exhibition also offers the possibility of seeing the audiovisual Je rêve d'un grand atelier (I dream of a great workshop), which takes its title from the words that Miró left us in 1938: “My dream, when I can look at some place, is to have a very large studio, to have room, many canvases, because the more I work, the more I want to work”.
Curated by Óscar Carrascosa, it can be visited until June 18, every day from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can buy tickets in advance here.