13 January 2023
Joan Miró. Absolute Reality. Paris, 1920–1945
- Dates: February 10 to May 28, 2023
- Curator: Enrique Juncosa
In the 25 years of activity covered by the exhibition, there is a constant flow of new ideas ranging from his initial magic realism to his language of constellated signs.
In this period, it becomes clear that prehistoric art held a special interest for Miró, who proposed returning to the dawn of art in order to retrieve its original spiritual sense.
Admired for his formal innovations developed in the context of the first avant-garde movements, especially Dadaism and Surrealism, Miró is also considered a precursor of Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual Art.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Joan Miró. Absolute Reality. Paris, 1920–1945, an exhibition that explores the career between the years 1920 and 1945 of one of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century. The start of this fundamental period in Miró’s oeuvre is marked by the date of his first trip to Paris, a key city in his life and work, and it closes with the year when Miró, after producing his Constellations (1940–41) and then hardly painting at all for some years, created a great series of works on white backgrounds that consolidated his language of signs floating on ambiguous grounds.
In the 25 years of activity covered by the exhibition, there is a constant flow of new ideas ranging from his initial magic realism to his language of constellated signs. In this development, it becomes clear that prehistoric art, including rock paintings, petroglyphs, and statuettes, held a special interest for Miró, a fascination confirmed by his notebooks, where he proposes returning to the dawn of art in order to retrieve its original spiritual sense.
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