The most complete exhibition on the Catalan painter Joan Miró organised in the last 20 years in Spain can be seen in Barcelona until March 18th 2012. The "Ladder of Escape" (L’escala de l’evasió) is hosted by the Fundació Joan Miró, the museum devoted to the Catalan artist and located at Barcelona Montjuïc Hill.
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The exhibition brings together over one hundred and fifty works drawn from public and private collections from around the world. The first rooms explore the links between Miró and his native Catalonia, through works such as The Farm (1921-22), The Tilled Field (1923-24) and Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)(1923-24), as well as the time he spent in Paris and the creative liberation of Surrealism. In the middle section, the terrifying years of the Spanish Civil War and World War II are reflected in Miró's new pictorial language with works such as Still Life with Old Shoe (1937) and the Constellations (1940-41). The final section features works produced during the final stages of Franco's dictatorship, such as May 1968 (1968-73) and the triptych The Hope of aCondemned Man (1974). |
