ARTISTS
Joan Miró: I Work Like A Gardener
Jun 15, 2010 - Oct 10, 2010
To the Spanish-Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) everything was alive. Miró’s studio was like a vegetable garden and his artworks like plants. Miró opens up to the material’s inner life and force, allowing the works to grow forth. His works show us how everything grows and changes.
It’s in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Miró, 1959.
MIRÓ – I Work Like A Gardener invites us inside a wondrous universe. 114 sculptures, paintings, drawings as well as works in textile and ceramics demonstrate how Miró wished to make art that was created immediately and not from intellectual speculation. An art founded in nature and imagination. The focus of the exhibition is on Miró’s late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Miró really began experimenting with sculpture in order to develop as an artist. Fearing growing stale if he was to work only with painting and drawing, he assembled things he had found in surprising ways. Later they were cast in bronze and at times painted in bright colours.
ARTISTIC INNOVATIONS
Miró’s late work, particularly the sculptures, helps bring a new understanding of his oeuvre. We know him as painter and luminary in the Abstract Surrealism of the 1920s and ‘30s. However, the sculptures show that he paved his own way, constantly renewing his idiom and experimenting with materials and expressions. A gardener works in nature, sees its potential and recreates it. Miró found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Miró kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Miró’s studio was like a vegetable garden. Here he learned the inner life of his found objects and slowly allowed them to grow together into sculptures.
FONDATION MAEGHT
109 of the exhibition’s works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Miró collection. The exhibition is a collaboration between Henie Onstad Art Centre and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. If opened in in Denmark earlier this year. The summer of 2010 it will be on display at Henie Onstad Art Centre.
It’s in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Miró, 1959.
MIRÓ – I Work Like A Gardener invites us inside a wondrous universe. 114 sculptures, paintings, drawings as well as works in textile and ceramics demonstrate how Miró wished to make art that was created immediately and not from intellectual speculation. An art founded in nature and imagination. The focus of the exhibition is on Miró’s late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Miró really began experimenting with sculpture in order to develop as an artist. Fearing growing stale if he was to work only with painting and drawing, he assembled things he had found in surprising ways. Later they were cast in bronze and at times painted in bright colours.
ARTISTIC INNOVATIONS
Miró’s late work, particularly the sculptures, helps bring a new understanding of his oeuvre. We know him as painter and luminary in the Abstract Surrealism of the 1920s and ‘30s. However, the sculptures show that he paved his own way, constantly renewing his idiom and experimenting with materials and expressions. A gardener works in nature, sees its potential and recreates it. Miró found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Miró kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Miró’s studio was like a vegetable garden. Here he learned the inner life of his found objects and slowly allowed them to grow together into sculptures.
FONDATION MAEGHT
109 of the exhibition’s works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Miró collection. The exhibition is a collaboration between Henie Onstad Art Centre and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. If opened in in Denmark earlier this year. The summer of 2010 it will be on display at Henie Onstad Art Centre.
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To the Spanish-Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) everything was alive. Miró’s studio was like a vegetable garden and his artworks like plants. Miró opens up to the material’s inner life and force, allowing the works to grow forth. His works show us how everything grows and changes.
It’s in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Miró, 1959.
MIRÓ – I Work Like A Gardener invites us inside a wondrous universe. 114 sculptures, paintings, drawings as well as works in textile and ceramics demonstrate how Miró wished to make art that was created immediately and not from intellectual speculation. An art founded in nature and imagination. The focus of the exhibition is on Miró’s late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Miró really began experimenting with sculpture in order to develop as an artist. Fearing growing stale if he was to work only with painting and drawing, he assembled things he had found in surprising ways. Later they were cast in bronze and at times painted in bright colours.
ARTISTIC INNOVATIONS
Miró’s late work, particularly the sculptures, helps bring a new understanding of his oeuvre. We know him as painter and luminary in the Abstract Surrealism of the 1920s and ‘30s. However, the sculptures show that he paved his own way, constantly renewing his idiom and experimenting with materials and expressions. A gardener works in nature, sees its potential and recreates it. Miró found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Miró kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Miró’s studio was like a vegetable garden. Here he learned the inner life of his found objects and slowly allowed them to grow together into sculptures.
FONDATION MAEGHT
109 of the exhibition’s works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Miró collection. The exhibition is a collaboration between Henie Onstad Art Centre and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. If opened in in Denmark earlier this year. The summer of 2010 it will be on display at Henie Onstad Art Centre.
It’s in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Miró, 1959.
MIRÓ – I Work Like A Gardener invites us inside a wondrous universe. 114 sculptures, paintings, drawings as well as works in textile and ceramics demonstrate how Miró wished to make art that was created immediately and not from intellectual speculation. An art founded in nature and imagination. The focus of the exhibition is on Miró’s late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Miró really began experimenting with sculpture in order to develop as an artist. Fearing growing stale if he was to work only with painting and drawing, he assembled things he had found in surprising ways. Later they were cast in bronze and at times painted in bright colours.
ARTISTIC INNOVATIONS
Miró’s late work, particularly the sculptures, helps bring a new understanding of his oeuvre. We know him as painter and luminary in the Abstract Surrealism of the 1920s and ‘30s. However, the sculptures show that he paved his own way, constantly renewing his idiom and experimenting with materials and expressions. A gardener works in nature, sees its potential and recreates it. Miró found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Miró kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Miró’s studio was like a vegetable garden. Here he learned the inner life of his found objects and slowly allowed them to grow together into sculptures.
FONDATION MAEGHT
109 of the exhibition’s works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Miró collection. The exhibition is a collaboration between Henie Onstad Art Centre and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. If opened in in Denmark earlier this year. The summer of 2010 it will be on display at Henie Onstad Art Centre.
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