Joan Miró: Personnage, 1975.
Private Collection London. Photo: Olivier Middendorp
Joan Miró, La Caresse D’un Oiseau, 1967.
Foundation Marguerite Et Aimé Maeght. Photo: Olivier Middendorp
Miró in the Rijksmuseum gardens – summer 2015 Twenty-one sculptures by the Spanish artist Joan Miró will be adorning the gardens of the Rijksmuseum on summer 2015. 19 June to 11 October, 2015.]]>
Source: Rijksmuseum
This is the first-ever exhibition of Miró’s sculptures in the Netherlands. The four-metre-high “Oiseau lunaire” is making its first public appearance. Since it was cast in bronze in the 1980s, it had never left the warehouse of its commissioning party in New York, until recently when it came into the possession of a private European owner. The Mirós will be on display from 19 June to 11 October in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum, which are free for the public to visit daily from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm.
Joan Miró (1893-1983) was brought up in a family of artists in Barcelona (his father was a goldsmith, his grandmother a furniture maker). He is most famous for his dreamy paintings featuring magical figures, animals, suns and stars. His talent as a sculptor is less well known. His range of sculptures did not really get started until after his 40th birthday, but ultimately comprised almost 400 works.
Miró developed two types of sculptures and examples of both are on display in the exhibition. There are assemblies of objects from nature (stones, tree trunks, roots) on the one hand and from daily life (pitchfork, crane, a mannequin) on the other. But he also sculpted voluminous figures with round and sensual shapes, reminiscent of his painted figures. Miró preferred to work with bronze, which he sometimes painted in bright colours.
Following on from Henry Moore and Alexander Calder, Miró in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum is the third in a series of five open-air exhibitions, made possible by the BankGiro Loterij.
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