The exhibition "Joan Mirò, beyond painting" to discover the evolution, importance and richness of the artist's graphic work [Video & photo gallery]

The exhibition "Joan Miró, beyond painting", curated by Rosa Maria Malet, historical director of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, ​​offers the public the opportunity to discover an essential part of the artist's work: the exceptional graphic work. The exhibition focuses on the work process of the artist who produced one of the most remarkable works recorded in the history of art.

Derived largely from an exceptional donation made by Adrien Maeght, who worked with Miró in his ARTE print shop, over 200 works are presented, including a series of unpublished gouaches. Models, posters, engravings, original lithographs, printing plates, prints and bibliophiles complete the exhibition to highlight this prodigious creation.

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In line with the legacy of Marguerite and Aimé Maeght and their son Adrien, the Maeght Foundation proposes, for its great summer exhibition, a tribute to the creative genius of Joan Miró, ten years after the last exhibition that the Foundation has dedicated to him "Miró in his garden". This exhibition also echoes the retrospective presented this winter at the Grand Palais in Paris.

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Born in 1893 in Barcelona and died in 1983 in Palma de Mallorca, Joan Miró is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century who revolutionized the codes of modern art. Throughout his life, the artist invents a dream world at the service of a vocabulary of forms applied to all the techniques he works with. "I need a starting point," Miró explained, "even a dust mote or a beam of light. This shape gives me a series of things, one thing that gives rise to another thing."

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The exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, "Joan Mirò, Beyond Painting", allows us to discover the evolution, importance and richness of Joan Miró's graphic work in four main concepts: Joan Miró's relationship with poets, the concept "collage", the combinatorial possibilities and the discovery of techniques. "Joan Miró said he was a painter, a statement to which the artist immediately added precision: he was a painter, but a painter who wanted to express himself with all the techniques at hand," explains Rosa Maria Malet, an expert of the work of the artist, director of the Fundació Joan Miró of Barcelona for 37 years.

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"The more I work, the more work I want. I would like to try sculpture, ceramics, prints, have a print," said Miró. The preparatory works revealed by the Maeght Foundation reveal Joan Miró's desire to use all the possibilities offered. This exhibition pays tribute to a passionate artist while explaining his working method. At the ARTE typography, created in 1964, Adrien Maeght offers the artist all the possible techniques, from the most artisanal to the most innovative. Joan Miró wanted to experience all the opportunities that could be offered by traditional processes and therefore new means like the scanner. He has also made overlaps on unusual supports such as sewing patterns, canvas or parchment. For Joan Miró, Adrien Maeght, with Henri Goetz, develops the carborundum technique that Miró immediately grasped.

The importance of the relationship between the artist and the typography is fundamental. It allows Joan Miró to provide technical solutions to his requests and thus achieve the desired results. These technical aspects in his graphic work (relief, material, integration of objects, reuse of motifs, ...) take their full extent and result in the consistency of Miró's work in correspondence with graphic works and sculptures or ceramics.