Joan Miró at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nov 2 -Jan 12

Exhibition Description:

This is the first major museum exhibition to identify the core practices and strategies Joan Miró (Spanish,1893-1983) used to attack and reinvigorate painting between 1927 and 1937. This was a vital decade within his long career. The exhibition begins with the notorious claim Miró made in 1927, "I want to assassinate painting" and includes 12 of Miró's sustained series from this decade, some 90 paintings, collages, objects, and drawings.

In 1941, MoMA organized the first full retrospective of Miró's work to be mounted anywhere in the world, this was followed by major exhibitions in 1959 and 1973, and a landmark retrospective, presented on the centennial of his birth, in 1993. This exhibition offers a fresh look at the artist's work through a tightly focused presentation of a single transformative decade.

A repeatedly posed question of what painting meant to Miró and what he proposed as its opposite, reveals the artist's paradoxical nature. Miro was an artist of aggression and resistance who never ceased to be a painter, a creator of forms. He used acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, purposeful stylistic heterogeneity, and collage and readymade materials as tactics deployed to take apart and reconstruct painting and his own art.

Description:

Image: Joan Miró. Dutch Interior (I). 1928. Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 28 3/4" (91.8 x 73 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. Photograph credit: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Imaging Services. © 2008 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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