Programme of activities September / December 2016
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Endgame: Duchamp, chess and the avant-garde
Joan Miró Collection
Photography in the Foyer
29th October 2016 to 22nd January 2017
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10th May to 18th September
Joaquim Gomis 20th September 2016 to 15th January 2017
Temporary Exhibitions Until 2nd October
Infinite Sequence Ignasi Aballí 22nd November 2016 to 8th January 2017
Nadala Nadalitats
Lluís Maria Riera
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Planning ahead
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Espai 13
Familimiró
24th September to 6th November
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Friends of Fundació Joan Miró
Fiction is a reality yet to happen
Pg. 33 General Information
Pg. 24 Other activities
Activities Self-Organisation. DIY Practices 6th October
DIY politics in the essay film 1st December
Doropaedia: Self-organisation
4th September, 2nd October, 6th November and 4th December Conducted tour
The Fundació. Architecture, art and landscape 24th September
Free admission for the Festival of La Mercè
Temporary exhibition
Endgame: Duchamp, chess and the avant-garde 29th October 2016 to 22nd January 2017 Curated by Manuel Segade Follow this exhibition on social media: #Fidepartida
Endgame. Duchamp, chess and the avant-garde is an account of twentieth-century avant-garde movements up to the beginning of conceptual art, told from the angle of what appears to be a minor anecdote: the game of chess. By revealing its ongoing presence throughout a variety of different currents, we are able to observe the shift from the pleasure of play to the analysis of language. It is the path that leads from the Fauvist figuration of the 1910s to the symbolic tradition of Surrealism and finally, to its culmination in art as idea in Conceptual Art, by way of the leading artists of the modern era. Sponsored by:
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Man Ray L’Échiquier surréaliste, 1934 Photomontage. Gelatin silver print The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Dorothea Tanning Chess tournament at Julien Levy Gallery, January 6th 1945 Collage by Dorothea Tanning with three photographs by Julien Levy
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Endgame
Publication available at the Fundaciรณ Mirรณ bookshop with texts by Manuel Segade, Estrella de Diego and Adina Kamien-Kazhdan.
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Joan Mirรณ Collection
The hope of a condemned man I, II and III, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 267 x 351 cm each
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Free guided tour Catalan: Saturdays at 12.30 pm Spanish: Saturdays at 11 am English: Thursday at 1 pm
The Fundació Joan Miró is a remarkable space created by Joan Miró himself with the idea of making art accessible to all. The collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and works on paper displayed at the Fundació is one of the most comprehensive selections of Miró’s oeuvre, offering a thorough overview of all the stages of his life and career. Eight distinct but interconnected sections allow visitors to explore all aspects of the work and personal language of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century: “The Land”, “Beyond Painting”, “Violence”, “Escape”, “Anonymity”, “Poetry and Silence”, “Anti-Painting”, “Sobreteixims”, and “Art and Everyday Life” illustrate the key concepts in Miró’s thinking and his oeuvre, and show his desire to transcend conventional painting. The paintings related to Surrealism and the works based on the Spanish Civil War are particularly noteworthy due to their artistic and poetic significance. Other important pieces include the large canvases Miró produced from the late seventies onwards, which are characterised by large fields of colour and free gesture.
Joan Miró Collection
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Painting (The white glove), 1925
Fireworks I, II and III, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 292 x 195 cm each
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Temporary exhibitions
Repainting Miró, 2016 Two simultaneous video projections (90’ each). New work
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Until 2nd October
Infinite Sequence An exhibition of the work of Ignasi Aballí, winner of the 2015 Joan Miró Prize Curated by Ignasi Aballí and Martina Millà Follow this exhibition on social media: #IgnasiAballí
Infinite Sequence is an exhibition dedicated to the work of Ignasi Aballí, winner of the 2015 Joan Miró Prize. It proposes a stroll through a selection of pieces by Catalonia’s foremost conceptual artist to allow visitors to gradually discover some of the key aspects of his oeuvre. The presentation of the selected works eludes a strict retrospective format to give way to an exhibition narrative with moments and spaces that relate to one another. Together, they evolve as a composition that, in its conclusion, points to the idea of infinite continuity and open repetition, as referred to in the title of the exhibition itself. The exhibition starts with pieces dealing with temporality, followed by a room dedicated to Aballí’s work on colour, and by another room dedicated to absence and invisibility, to conclude with a projection room featuring his video work on processes of semantic slippage. The exhibition includes works from the 1990s to the present as well as a number of new productions.
Temporary Exhibitions
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22nd November 2016 to 8th January 2017
Nadala Nadalitats Luis Bisbe Follow this project on social media: #Nadalitats
Every year the Fundaci贸 Joan Mir贸 showcases a purposebuilt installation created by an artist who makes his own interpretation of one of the characteristic themes of Christmas. This year, Luis Bisbe proposes a dialogue between the olive tree as a sculptural object and the objectified sculptures on the terraces of the Fundaci贸 Mir贸. Bisbe views Christmas as a time of presences and absences and with this installation he highlights the presence of the object rather than what it represents. 14
Temporary Exhibitions
Photography in the Foyer
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Since 2012, the Fundació Joan Miró programmes photography exhibitions to disseminate the Fons Gomis archive and the work of other photographers who, like Joaquim Gomis, combined photographic practice with other professional activities.
10th May to 18th September
20th September 2016 to 15th January 2017
Joaquim Gomis Gimeno Foundry
Lluís Maria Riera Urban cut-outs
In the mid-forties, amateur photographer Joaquim Gomis visited Gimeno Foundry with his friend Joan Miró. At the foundry, Gomis found material paying tribute to the leaders of Franco’s dictatorship, as well as remnants of artistic movements prior to the Republic. Gomis was able to photograph the improvised assemblage with the subtle irony that this highly restrictive period called for.
Lluís Maria Riera, an amateur photographer closely associated with the Fundació Joan Miró and the Galeria Joan Prats, was a friend of Miró, Tàpies and Brossa, as well as other artists. He helped them set up exhibitions and this close working relationship transformed his gaze into a selective and careful analysis of the details around him.
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Photography in the Foyer
2017 Planning ahead
16.02.17 — 21.05.17 Self-organisation. DIY Practices The exhibition traces the genealogy of do-it-yourself practices in the field of art production and features works by artists who, starting in the early 1960s, have taken it upon themselves to monitor the production, display and reception of their own works. As a result, they have also touched upon issues of authorship and have decisively empowered their own artistic practices.
30.03.17 — 02.07.17 À toute épreuve Miró. Documents Exhibition programme Exhibition about the artist’s book À toute épreuve, produced in close collaboration by the poet Paul Éluard, the artist Joan Miró and the publisher Gérald Cramer over a ten-year period (1948-1958). With this project, the exhibition curator, Christopher Green, focuses on the way Miró fulfilled his wish to create a book-object that transcended the simple illustration of the poet’s words.
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Planning ahead
19.06.17 — 01.10.17 The Way Things Go — A tribute In the summer of 2017, the Fundació Joan Miró will mark the 30th anniversary of Fischli & Weiss’ epoch-making film with an exhibition curated by Barcelona-based artist Serafín Álvarez. The exhibition will feature work by several emerging artists produced for the occasion as a tribute to the Swiss duo. The original film itself will also be screened in parallel with the exhibition.
2016 — 2018 Beehave — Art and bees in the city With its Beehave project the Fundació Joan Miró seeks to show the potential of urban beekeeping to the Barcelona public. A group of local as well as international artists will place public art works made with beehives throughout the city parks and gardens thus highlighting current crosspollination between art practices and environmental concerns. In collaboration with Ajuntament de Barcelona and Apicultura Urbana.
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One Foot Out. Expeditions and Diasporas Programme curated by Jordi Antas Follow this exhibition programme on social media: #Peuafora
The exhibition programme One Foot Out. Expeditions and Diasporas explores aspects of belonging to and breaking away from an artistic context. Projects that begin with a voluntary dispersion based on processes and questions: what is generated in the distance, and what can be brought back. Six separate solo shows that are all grounded in uncertainty and explore the relationships that form around them, in order to offer a more plural, liberated vision. The participating artists move between performativity and audience involvement, fiction, and unexpected situations. A diasporic view.
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24th September to 6th November Fiction is a reality yet to happen Ana Garcia-Pineda
An essay-exhibition by Ana Garcia-Pineda that revolves around drawing and narrative, combining various concepts: the theory of possible worlds, the concept of truth in fiction, and the study of the real through the unreal. Various visual narratives and parallel illusions allow Garcia-Pineda to move through possible worlds that converge and interact. Places and spaces that explore the potentiality of possibility and speculate on the consequences arising from the changing laws and rules of our logical nature.
This activity is part of Apropa Cultura Week
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Activities Self-Organisation. DIY Practices
In spring 2017, the Fundaciรณ Joan Mirรณ will be staging Self-Organisation. DIY Practices, an exhibition curated by Antonio Ortega that traces the genealogy of do-it-yourself artistic practices from the sixties to the present. To do so, he has called upon a personal selection of artists who have given a new direction to their working process allowing them to gain authority over the narrative.
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Thursday 6th October at 7pm
Thursday 1st December at 7pm
DIY politics in the essay film
Doropaedia: Self-organisation
Artist and researcher Núria Gómez Gabriel in conversation with Gonzalo de Lucas, lecturer in film at the UPF, programmer for the Xcèntric film season (CCCB) DIY politics in the essay film seeks to revise the historical overview of film-making practices that question the models of the major film industries in order to put forward other visual economies based on autonomy and the systems of material (self-)organisation.
Daniel Granados returns to his Doropaedia – “gilded encyclopaedia” – project, by proposing an activity based on the concept of self-organisation. The idea of self-organisation will be addressed from many different angles – from creation to thought – using the format of a radio show that combines conversations and live music performances.
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Familimirรณ
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Familimiró is the Fundació Joan Miró’s programme of activities for families. It includes workshops, shows, and guided tours related to the permanent collection, the building, and the temporary exhibitions. The Familimiró card, which is free of charge, entitles holders to a discount on activities for families. Regular information about all these activities is provided and cardholders are also eligible for a 5% discount on purchases from the gift shop and bookshop.
Tickets for Familimiró activities can be purchased through the website: www.fmirobcn.org In collaboration with:
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Other activities
Sunday 4th September, 2nd October, 6th November and 4th December The Fundació. Architecture, art and landscape
Saturday 24th September Free admission for the Festival of La Mercè 10am to 8pm
Conducted tour of Josep Lluís Sert’s building Catalan: at 12.30pm English: at 11am
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Friends of Fundaciรณ Joan Mirรณ
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Friends Programme 2016 September
November
Friends’ Night, an event held for friends only. Presentation of the season’s programme
A visit to the Fundació Joan Miró Archive: printing techniques by Joan Miró, led by conservator Elena Escolar
Opening of the Friends’ Space: a gathering with Ignasi Aballí, the winner of the 2015 Joan Miró Prize
Bread-making workshop and edible chess game in collaboration with Panes creativos
October Hands-on letterpress workshop led by Arcangela Regi Would you like to follow the traces of bees? Join us for an art project about bees.
December Christmas workshop for families The GATCPAC: a guided tour to twentieth-century avant-garde architecture in Barcelona A conversation with Luis Bisbe, the creator of the 2016 Christmas carol
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Friends’ Space
Beginning in September, on Thursdays from 5 to 9pm, there will be an area in the Fundació Miró café where the Friends of the Foundation can meet.
The Friends’ Voice
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General Information Opening hours* Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, except public holidays: November to March: 10am — 6pm April to October: 10am — 8pm Thursday 10am — 9pm Saturday 10am — 8pm Sunday and public holidays 10am — 2.30pm
Bookshop, store, and restaurant, until 3 pm
Monday, except public holidays Closed * Last admissions 30 minutes before closing
Admission charges Entrada general: Joan Miró collection + temporary exhibitions Adults: 12 € Concessions**: 7 € Admission to temporary exhibitions only Adults: 7 € Concessions**: 5 € Espai 13: 2,5 € Free for under 15s and the unwaged (duly accredited) Discounts for groups with prior reservation: see website Annual pass: 13 € Multimedia guide: 5 € * *Students aged 15 to 30, over 65s
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Transport
Visit 6 major art centres in Barcelona for 30 €
Buses 55 (Plaça Catalana – Parc de Montjuïc) and 150 (Plaça Espanya – Parc de Montjuïc)
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Funicular From Paral·lel metro station, integrated fare Library The Library specialises in Joan Miró and the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Josep Lluís Sert Archive Tuesday to Friday 10 am — 2 pm 3 pm — 6 pm Mondays and Saturdays 10 am — 2 pm Admission free Browse the Library’s online catalogue.
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Bookshop and Gift Shop The Bookshop specialises in Joan Miró and contemporary art in general, and stocks books, magazines, prints and posters. The Gift Shop sells a wide variety of designer articles, stationery, educational toys, etc. Open during general opening hours. Admission up to 15 minutes before closing time.
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Unless stated otherwise, the photo credit is: Pere Pratdesaba / Pep Herrero / Hisao Suzuki © Fundació Joan Miró. Credits of the works by Joan Miró: © Successió Miró, 2016. Fundació Joan Miró is an environmentally friendly organisation.
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Thanks Institutions Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte Generalitat de Catalunya Ajuntament de Barcelona Fundación BBVA Obra Social ”la Caixa” Miró Partners Bodegas Torres Coronas Advocats Mayoral Galeria d’Art Nationale Suisse Obra Social ”la Caixa”
Corporate Support Canon España Fundació Han Nefkens Fundació Banc Sabadell Fundación Telefónica Hotel Alma Mercès Oriol Balaguer Vidres Viola
Media Support Ara El Periódico TV3 Catalunya Ràdio BTV Cercle Miró Friends of the Fundació Joan Miró
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Cover image: Paul Klee, Überschach, 1937 (detail)