Page 41 - World of Art Contemporary Art magazine: The 2023 Guggenheim issue

Joan Miró. Painting (Birds and Insects) [Peinture (Oiseaux et insectes)], 1938 Oil on Joan Miró. Catalan Peasant with a Guitar (Paysan catalan à la guitare), 1924
canvas 114 x 88 cm. Albertina, Vienna – Sammlung Batliner. © Successió Miró, 2023 Oil on canvas 147 x 114 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. ©
Successió Miró, 2023. Photo: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Joan Miró. The Gentleman (Le Gentleman), 1924 Oil on canvas 52.5 x 46.5 cm.
Kunstmuseum Basel - Schenkung Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, 1968. © Successió
Miró, 2023. Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler

The exhibition features nearly 150 works from public
and private collections around the world, including
paintings, drawings, prints, textiles, and photographs.
It also includes a catalogue with essays by Enrique
Juncosa, Robert Lubar Messeri, Teresa Montaner,
William Jeffett, and an interview with the artist by
Georges Raillard. The exhibition is organized by the
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with
the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Centre
Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition aims to reveal
the complexity and diversity of Miró’s artistic vision
during a crucial period in his career and in European
history. It shows how Miró responded to the social and
political upheavals of his time with a creative freedom
that transcended stylistic boundaries and artistic
conventions. It also highlights how Miró experimented
with different media and techniques, such as
collage, frottage, engraving, lithography, ceramics,
and tapestry, expanding the possibilities of artistic
expression.

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