Joan Mir贸: I Work Like A Gardener
Jun 15, 2010 - Oct 10, 2010
To the Spanish-Catalan artist Joan Mir贸 (1893-1983) everything was alive. Mir贸鈥檚 studio was like a vegetable garden and his artworks like plants. Mir贸 opens up to the material鈥檚 inner life and force, allowing the works to grow forth. His works show us how everything grows and changes.
It鈥檚 in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Mir贸, 1959.
MIR脫 鈥� 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 Mir贸 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 Mir贸鈥檚 late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Mir贸 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
Mir贸鈥檚 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 鈥�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. Mir贸 found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Mir贸 kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Mir贸鈥檚 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鈥檚 works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aim茅 Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Mir贸 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鈥檚 in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Mir贸, 1959.
MIR脫 鈥� 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 Mir贸 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 Mir贸鈥檚 late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Mir贸 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
Mir贸鈥檚 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 鈥�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. Mir贸 found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Mir贸 kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Mir贸鈥檚 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鈥檚 works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aim茅 Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Mir贸 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 Mir贸 (1893-1983) everything was alive. Mir贸鈥檚 studio was like a vegetable garden and his artworks like plants. Mir贸 opens up to the material鈥檚 inner life and force, allowing the works to grow forth. His works show us how everything grows and changes.
It鈥檚 in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Mir贸, 1959.
MIR脫 鈥� 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 Mir贸 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 Mir贸鈥檚 late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Mir贸 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
Mir贸鈥檚 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 鈥�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. Mir贸 found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Mir贸 kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Mir贸鈥檚 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鈥檚 works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aim茅 Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Mir贸 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鈥檚 in sculpture that I wish to create a purely imaginary world of living monsters, Joan Mir贸, 1959.
MIR脫 鈥� 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 Mir贸 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 Mir贸鈥檚 late works. In his latter years, the focus of this exhibition, Mir贸 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
Mir贸鈥檚 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 鈥�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. Mir贸 found things in nature and by the side of the road and unfolded them in his artworks. Mir贸 kept the abandoned and destroyed alive. Things were not dead to him but full of potential. Mir贸鈥檚 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鈥檚 works are on loan from Fondation Marguerite et Aim茅 Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, which has a unique Mir贸 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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