I WORK LIKE A GARDENER

MIRÓ – I Work Like A Gardener

EVERYTHING IS ALIVE
To the Spanish-Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) everything was alive. He worked with his art like a gardener weeds and fertilises his plants. 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.

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.

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.

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. Read more here.

In the exhibition you can see film clips from 1966 when Duke Ellington played a concert to Miró at Fondation Maeght.