Programme of activities May August 2017
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The Way Things Do
Temporary Exhibitions
Photography in the Foyer
Until 21 May
Until 14 May
Self-organization
Joaquim Gomis
Until 2 July
16 May to 17 September
From 30 June to 1 October 20 July
Presentation of the publication The Way Things Do
Éluard, Cramer, Miró – «À toute épreuve», more than a book
Cloe Masotta
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Joan Miró Collection
Espai 13 19 May to 2 July
Hot iron 14 July to 11 September
Bur Belt
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Familimiró Activities for families: workshops, shows and guided tours
Other Activities
Friends of the Fundació Joan Miró
Saturday, 20 May
Museum Night 7 May, 4 June, 2 July and 6 August
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The Fundació. Architecture, Art and Landscape 1 June
Trànsit 7 and 8 July
Pop Up
General Information
Temporary exhibition
The Way Things Do From 30 June to 1 October Curated by Serafín Álvarez and Martina Millà Follow this exhibition on social media: #TheWayThingsDo
The exhibition is a tribute to The Way Things Go, the iconic film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, celebrating its 30th anniversary. The show includes three installations by upcoming artists and a screening of the film by the Swiss artist pair. In The Way Things Do, Serafín Álvarez, Cécile B. Evans and Daniel Jacoby & Yu Araki offer three reinterpretations of the legendary chain reaction of objects while exploring the notions of circuits and traces, the role of objects in relation to audiences or the nature of interactions between data, machines and artificial intelligence. Althought the three resulting pieces are independent from each other, they are all based on the film by Fischli and Weiss, while also stemming from shared, collaborative production processes.
Still frames from The Way Things Go. © Peter Fischli and David Weiss. T & C Film
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Daniel Jacoby & Yu Araki
Serafín Álvarez
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CĂŠcile B. Evans. Detail, installation view Sprung a Leak at Tate Liverpool, courtesy of the artist and Emanuel Layr Galerie, Vienna
20 July at 7 pm
Presentation of the publication The Way Things Do With an audiovisual introduction by Roc JimĂŠnez de Cisneros With the collaboration of Hangar (centre for visual art production and research) and BAR project.
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Joan Mirรณ Collection
Collection rooms
Free guided tour Catalan: Saturdays at 12:30 pm Spanish: Saturdays at 11 am English: Thursdays at 1 pm
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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.
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Tapestry of the Fundaciรณ, 1979
Fireworks triptych, 1974
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Temporary exhibitions
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Temporary Exhibitions
Until 21 May
Self-organization Curated by Antonio Ortega Follow this exhibition on social media: #Autogestió
Self-organization provides a genealogy of artists from the 1960s on who have been developing strategies to recover the authorship of their own narrative. The exhibition is also an attempt to understand recent art and confirm the current validity of these dynamics. It includes works of artists such as Esther Ferrer, Joan Hernández-Pijuan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sílvia Gubern, Cesare Pietroiusti, Jiri Kovanda, Henk Peeters or François Curlet. The continuity of positions supporting the concept of self-organization could have its base in contextual conditions such as the drop in production costs and the institutional crisis. Many recent artistic efforts have adjusted themselves to this scenario in order to maintain their cultural activity by taking on a high level of risk and making a clear commitment to their time. Self-organization is also associated with the artists’ determination to not relinquish their work to an external interpretation, instead reclaiming control of what is probably their only capital: the desire to be in charge of their own production.
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Self-organization Related activities
Thursday, 4 May at 7 pm
Thursday, 18 May at 6 pm
Self-organized education
Housing by People
By the education team from the self-organized Arcàdia school at Can Batlló
Saturdays, 6 and 20 March
Free guided tour Catalan: at 11 am Spanish: at 12.30 pm
Presentation of the book by John F. C. Turner. Housing by People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments (Writings about urban planning, housing, self-organization and holism) Presented by Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, co-editor of the book, architect, and professor of International Urban Planning
Saturday, 13 May at 11 am
Free participatory tour
This publication is available at the Fundació Joan Miró bookshop. It includes texts by Antonio Ortega and Pilar Bonet, contributions by Rubén Martínez Moreno and Quim Packard, and illustrations by Pere Llobera.
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Temporary Exhibitions
In collaboration with:
Temporary exhibition
Until 2 July
Éluard, Cramer, Miró – «À toute épreuve», more than a book Miró Documents Curated by Christopher Green Follow this exhibition on social media: #mésqueunllibre
À toute épreuve woodblocks, mock-up and book from the Fundació Joan Miró Archive With the support of:
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Éluard, Cramer, Miró – «À toute épreuve», more than a book
Éluard, Cramer, Miró – «À toute épreuve», more than a book reconstructs the creative process behind Miró’s book based on a collection of poems by Paul Éluard with the same title. The exhibition is part of the Miró. Documents series, whose aim is to use the Fundació’s archive to further explore certain aspects of Miró’s work. The layout and execution of À toute épreuve is a reflection of Miró’s connection with the poets of the 1920s, which led to major transformations in his visual language. With this book, published by Gérald Cramer in 1958, Miró fulfilled his wish to venture beyond illustrating the poet’s words and end up creating an object.
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Temporary Exhibitions
‘A book must have all the dignity of a sculpture carved in marble.’ Letter from Joan Miró to Gérald Cramer. Barcelona, 19 June 1948, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Geneva, Gérald Cramer Archives.
Thursday, 11 May at 7 pm
Publication available at the Fundació Joan Miró bookshop, with texts by Christopher Green
Poetry Reading of Paul Éluard’s Work by Ricard Ripoll Activity for all ages
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Photography in the Foyer
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Since 2012, the Fundació Joan Miró has devoted a space to photography, exhibiting the archive of Joaquim Gomis and works by other photographers who, like Gomis, combined the practice of photography with other professional activities.
Until 14 May
16 May to 17 September
Joaquim Gomis Brossa at La Ricarda
Cloe Masotta From a Pixel a Poem
A selection of Joaquim Gomis’s photographs covering the two performances held at La Ricarda in the 1960s, conceived jointly by Joan Brossa and Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny: Suite bufa and Concert per a representar. Carles Santos, Anna Ricci and Terri Mestres also participated, among others.
Joan Brossa always quoted the principle of his much-admired Fregoli: ’art is life and life is transformation.’ Cloe Masotta takes this premise out into the streets, knowing that at any moment she may encounter an object, a text, a shadow or a colour that attracts her and that she can seize with her cell phone. Once framed, reality is transformed and introduces a poetic twist. Nothing is what it appears to be. This exhibition is part of the Epicentre Brossa programming.
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Espai 13 One Foot Out. Expeditions and Diasporas Programme curated by Jordi Antas Follow this exhibition on social media: #Peuafora
The 2016–17 programme of exhibitions at Espai 13 presents six projects by artists who are working from the periphery of the usual circuits of contemporary art in Barcelona. They all address the issue of belonging to and breaking away from one’s original artistic context. The artists featured in the One Foot Out. Expeditions and Diasporas programme reflect on how working from a distance affects their art. They all share a liberated view of their surroundings and a working method that involes audience participation and approaches fiction and performativity. The programme offers a joint view of the artistic diaspora. In collaboration with:
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and co-produced with Tabakalera, the International Centre for Contemporary Culture.
19 May to 2 July Hot iron Adrià Julià Adrià Julià’s work deals with memory, resistance, displacement, and the erosion that occurs as a result of the interdependence of people and their environment. Julià, who is particularly interested in cinematographic language, carries out research processes and record the experience through installations and multimedia performances. For One Foot Out, Julià will explore the cross-links between two seemingly unrelated events that reveal far-reaching global dynamics: the sale of Catalan Romanesque paintings to North-American buyers in the early twentieth century, and the introduction of American football in Barcelona a century later. The project’s centrepiece is a 16mm film included in the Festival Loop 2017 programming
14 July to 11 September Bur Belt Martin Llavaneras Martin Llavaneras uses video, sculpture, and other media to express his interest in dynamic activities capable of recoding spaces and defining a practical use of culture. As part of the Espai 13 series for the 2016-2017 season, Llavaneras will explore the notions of heritage and traces through a project that explores the exploitation of rubber and the tyre industry. A project with a strong environmental dimension that connects virtual drawing with material elements and sets up comparisons between the geological and human time scales.
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Familimiró is the Fundació Joan Miró’s programme of activities for families. It includes workshops, shows and 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. Newsletters are provided about family programming and cardholders are also eligible for a 5% discount on purchases from the Fundació’s gift shop and bookshop.
Tickets to Familimiró activities can be purchased online at the Fundació Joan Miró website: www.fmirobcn.org/familimiro In collaboration with:
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Other activities
Saturday, 20 May, 7 pm to 1 am
Sundays, 7 May, 4 June, 2 July and 6 August
Museum Night
The FundaciĂł. Architecture, Art and Landscape
Guided tours of the permanent collection, the building and the exhibition Self-organization In Catalan, Spanish and English Folded Architecture interactive workshop as part of the Architecture Week programming
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Guided tour of the Josep LluĂs Sert building Catalan: at 12.30 pm English: at 11 am
Thursday, 1 June at 8.30 pm
7 and 8 July, at 7 pm
Trànsit Performed by CrossingLines
Teatro delle Briciole theatre company, Parma
Fundació Joan Miró Auditorium
Fundació Joan Miró Auditorium
CrossingLines plays a selection of premieres of works by outstanding Catalan composers
Part of the Grec 2017 Festival de Barcelona programming
This concert is part of the Sampler series offered by L’Auditori de Barcelona
Pop Up
Tickets can be purchased online at the Fundació Joan Miró website
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Activities Programme Saturday, 6 May, 10 am to 2 pm
Thursday, 8 June at 7 pm
Introduction to moku-hanga, the Japanese woodblock technique that inspired Miró to work on the À toute épreuve book
Visit to the Fenomen Fotollibre exhibition at CCCB Led by executive curator
Moritz Neumüller
Led by Sebi Subirós Paid activity: €4 June 2017
Thursday, 30 May at 6 pm
Workshop on building an insect hotel with Pau Bosch and Jordi Bosch, as part of the Beehave project
Visit to the Pere Torné Esquius exhibition at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Led by the curators
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Friends of the Fundació Space
Friends have a designated meeting space at the Fundació’s café on Thursdays from 5 to 9 pm.
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General Information Opening hours* Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: 10 am — 8 pm Thursdays 10 am — 9 pm Saturdays 10 am — 8 pm Sundays 10 am — 3 pm Mondays except public holidays Closed
Admission General admission: Joan Miró collection + Temporary Exhibitions Single: € 12 Concessions**: € 7 Temporary Exhibitions: Single: € 7 Concessions**: € 5 Espai 13: € 2,5 Free: children under 15 and the unemployed (proof required) Special rates for groups with advance reservations: visit our website Annual Pass: € 13 Multimedia Guide: € 5
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* *Students aged 15–30 and seniors over 65
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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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Montjuïc Funicular Metro Paral·lel, 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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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 ERM Risk Management Fundació Bancària ”la Caixa” Helvetia Seguros Iberia Mayoral Galeria d’Art
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Cover image: Still frame from The Way Things Go. © Peter Fischli and David Weiss. T & C Film