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JOAN MIRÓWORKS ON PAPER 1960 - 1970
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Press release page 3
List of works exhibited page 5
The exhibition Joan Miró, works on paper 1960-1978 page 7
The Centre Pompidou Málaga, the first Pop-up Pompidou page 9
The « Pop-up Pompidou » concept page 10
Temporary exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Málaga page 11 Permanent circuit of the Centre Pompidou Málaga page 12
Press visuals page 13
Practical information page 15
PRESS RELEASEFIRST TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU MÁLAGAJOAN MIRÓWORKS ON PAPER 1960 - 197818 MAY - 27 SEPTEMBER 2015
The Centre Pompidou Málaga is devoting its first temporary exhibition to a particularly fertile period in the drawings of Joan Miró (1893 - 1983). Through some fifty of his works on paper dating from 1960 to 1978, this exhibition sheds light on two decades representing a period of total freedom in his choice of techniques, supports and artistic language.
With points, strokes, spots, writing, graffiti, lines, traces and scribblings, Miró's entire work is imbued
and marked with the signs of drawing. Simultaneously painter, sculptor, ceramist and engraver, the
man who said he couldn't draw used a constantly reinvented graphic language throughout his artistic
career. He nourished his graphic genius with a variety of influences, and created a unique language
that was instantly recognisable.
Of Miró's 80-odd works on paper now in the Centre Pompidou's graphic arts department, which he
produced between 1960 and 1978, the majority come from the generous donation he made in 1979 on
the occasion of his 85th birthday and the retrospective staged by the Centre Pompidou. The Centre
Pompidou Málaga exhibition presents forty-six of these drawings, and aims to show how Miró's work
between 1960 and 1978 was marked by a kind of urgency: the need to reinvent a language, transgress
limits, and untiringly "make signs".
The Centre Pompidou Málaga, inaugurated on 28 March 2015, is being hosted for five years in the Cubo.
As well as a permanent presentation of ninety works, two or three temporary exhibitions are to be
staged each year. Presented in an entirely dedicated area of 363 m2, these are devised by the curators
of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and drawn from various segments of the Centre Pompidou's
collections (photography, design, architecture and video). Temporary exhibitions are of varying lengths
(between three and six months, depending on the works involved), and alternate with multi-disciplinary
programmes devoted to dance, performance, film and conferences.
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LIST OF WORKS EXHIBITED
All the works presented come from the Centre Pompidou collection
Untitled V,01/02/1968Indian ink on Japanese paperPurchased in 1975
Untitled I, 14/02/1968Indian ink on Japanese paperPurchased in 1975
Dog in the Forest, 1974Pastel, charcoal and watercolour on paperDonated by the artist the artist, 1976
Figures, 1960Indian ink, charcoal, gouache and pastel on paperDonated by the artist the artist, 1979
Figure in Front of the Sun, 1960Indian ink and gouache on paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Figure, 1962Charcoal, watercolour, coloured crayon and oil on paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Figures and Bird, 1962Indian ink and watercolour on paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Figures in Front of the Sun, 1963Indian ink, watercolour and gouache on paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Untitled I, 27/11/1964Gouache and white paper cut and pasted on black paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Untitled 26, 12/05/1966Indian ink on Japanese paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Untitled 28, 15/05/1966 – 05/11/1966Indian ink on Japanese paperDonated by the artist the artist , 1979
Figure and Birds, 1969Indian ink and gouache on sheets of paper and card pasted togetherDonated by the artist the artist, 1979
Head, 1970 (CD: 30/07/1970Indian ink, gouache and pastel on newspaperDonated by the artist the artist, 1979
Figure, Bird, 1972Gouache, coloured crayon and acrylic on crumpled paperDonated by the artist the artist, 1979
Figure, Birds, 1972Indian ink and gouache on crumpled paper pasted on kraft paperDonated by the artist the artist, 1979
Bird in a Landscape, 1972Indian ink, watercolour, gouache and pastel on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Untitled XV, 13/01/1973Indian ink and pencil on Japanese paperDonated by the artist, 1979
[Black Marks], 1973 (sur CD : 13/01/1973)Indian ink on Japanese paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Untitled XXI, 13/01/1973Charcoal, Indian ink and watercolour on Japanese paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Untitled XXIII, 13/01/1973Indian ink, watercolour and charcoal on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Untitled, 08/1973Indian ink and gouache on transparent plastic sheet (of irregular form)Donated by the artist, 1979
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Hands and Birds in Space, 1975Indian ink, charcoal, pastel and impressions of the artist’s handsDonated by the artist, 1979
Figure, Birds, 1975Indian ink, pencil, charcoal and wax crayon on the back of an architectural planDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman, Birds in the Night, 1975Charcoal, pastel and Indian ink on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman, Bird, 1975Indian ink, pastel and gouache on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Figures and Bird in the Night [IV], 06/09/1971 - 20/11/1975Indian ink, watercolour and gouache on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Five Black Circles, a Star [I], 22/11/1971 - 15/01/1976Charcoal, pencil, Indian ink, pastel, gouache and oil on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman, Birds, 1976Pastel, gouache and oil on cardDonated by the artist, 1979
Figure, Birds, 1976Charcoal, pastel and chalk on wrinkled cardDonated by the artist, 1979
Figures, 1976Charcoal on printed wrapping paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Untitled (”b 12”), 17/09/1976Indian ink, charcoal, watercolour and gouache on Japanese paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman, 1976Charcoal on crumpled kraft paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Figures, Birds, 1976Indian ink and soft pencil on kraft paper cut and pasted on corrugated cardboardDonated by the artist, 1979
Figure, Bird, 1976Indian ink on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Figure, Birds, 1976Charcoal on the back of a poster for an Antoni Tapies exhibitionDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman, Bird, 1976Indian ink, charcoal, chalk and pastel on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Figures, 22/11/1971 - 22/12/1976Charcoal, Indian ink, pastel, watercolour and gouache on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Birds in a Nocturnal Landscape, 1977 (CD : 06/03/1977)Pencil, Indian ink and soft pencil on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman and Birds by Moonlight, 1977Indian ink, gouache and pastel on card edged in gold and spangled with silverDonated by the artist, 1979
Birds, Escape Ladder, 1977Charcoal, Indian ink, gouache and pastel on card edged in gold and spangled with silverDonated by the artist, 1979
Figures Guided Toward a Star by Birds Without Wings, 1977Pencil on paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Landscape, 1977Charcoal, chalk and pastel on corrugated cardboardDonated by the artist, 1979
Dog, 1977Indian ink and watercolour on crumpled kraft paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Figure, 1978Chalk, charcoal, Indian ink, gouache and pastel on grey cardDonated by the artist, 1979
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Woman, 1978Black and blue pastel on vegetable fibre paperDonated by the artist, 1979
Woman, 1978 (sur le CD : 06/03/1978)Indian ink, charcoal and pastel on kraft paperDonated by the artist, 1979
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THE EXHIBITION JOAN MIRÓ, WORKS ON PAPER 1960-1978
Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893 - Palma de Mallorca 1983) always said he couldn’t draw; it was undoubtedly this so-called “handicap” that forced him to reinvent drawing from top to toe. It all seemed as though he wanted to rid himself of every kind of knowledge and skill, in order to rediscover the first gestures of childhood and the beginnings of an inarticulate language. The line, for him, is always destabilised, affirmed then denied; sometimes incisive, sometimes deliberately clumsy; sometimes positive, sometimes negative. Of the 80-odd works on paper by Miró now in the Centre Pompidou’s graphic arts department, which he produced between 1960 and 1979, the majority come from the generous donation he made in 1979 on the occa-sion of his 85th birthday and the retrospective at the Centre Pompidou. This particularly fertile period for his drawing was one of total freedom – freedom in the choice of techniques and surfaces used; freedom in his artistic language. As Jacques Dupin wrote in the monographpublished in Paris in 1993 for the tenth anniversary of the artist’s death: “When he could no longer paint, Miró drew, and he never stopped drawing… He found the medium – in both meanings of the word – that enabled him to overcome the decline of his physical forces and to fill the breaches – those countless, minuscule breaches – through which death steals…”
MIRÓ AND DRAWING
With points, strokes, spots, writing, graffiti, lines, traces and scratches, Miró’s entire work is imbued and marked with the signs of drawing. Simultaneously painter, sculptor, ceramist and engraver, the man who said he couldn’t draw used a constantly reinvented graphic language throughout his artistic career. Miró nourished his “graphic genius” with a wide variety of influences, ranging from Surrealist automatic writing to graffiti, children’s drawings and oriental calligraphy. He created a language that was unique and instantly recognisable. At the end of his life, Miró did nothing but draw…
“Apart from the persistence of the star and a few specific characters, the figures in the last drawings are indeterminate. They are no longer derived from successive formal analyses of stylised reality. They are summoned by the space of the paper, which has become Miró’s space, with which everything begins and in which everything finds its meaning, place and value.” (Jacques Dupin, poet and friend of Miró.)
THE 1960S
Starting in the Sixties, Miró emancipated himself from a traditional form of painting with its constraints of space, forms and figures in order to focus on the expression of the creative act – its impulse, gesture and spontaneity. The truth of the material and the artist’s struggle with his work were made visible, stripped bare. In this period, drawing and engraving became his favourite forms of expression. His explorations in drawing were based on two main approaches. Firstly, he developed a writing consisting of calligraphic signs and strokes: an imaginary language composed of points, arrows, ladders, spirals, accidents, and scratches. Here the incisiveness of the stroke, the figure and the contour are most in evidence. Secondly, he explored the forms and chance metamor-phoses of blotches and splashes, which he placed in a space that was simultaneously in movement, airy and tactile alongside traces, imprints and stains. Here we are in an aesthetic of the “dirty” and shapeless; an embryonic language in the process of developing.
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THE 1970S
In the last decade, Miró’s work is marked by a kind of urgency: for him, it consisted of reinven-ting a language, of transgressing limits, and of untiringly “making signs”. Miró thus experi-mented with a plethora of new surfaces such as corrugated cardboard, brown paper, newspa-per, torn-up posters, plastic, envelopes, fine Japanese and hand- made papers. The textures, resistance and uneven surfaces of these materials forced his drawing to adapt and renew itself. Although signs had to fit into these “landscapes” which pre-existed them, at the same time they gave the different surfaces a quality of presence and “material truth”. Miró, who readily mixed media like gouache, pastels, charcoal, ink and coloured pencils, also experi-mented with new visual languages like graffiti, whose rough and incisive character had always appealed to him. He returned to a more tactile form of art and a form of primitivism – a writing innocent of all skill and expertise, made of “pre-signs” – which emerged from the deepest recesses of the unconscious, and drawing that was executed rapidly and spontaneously. As Michel Leiris wrote, “We can talk about childhood with regard to Miró. But only if we are talking about the childhood of the world, not a personal childhood.”
COSMOS AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURES
During these decades, two main approaches are at work in all Miró’s creations. On the one hand, a deep- rooted anthropomorphic aspect expressed through the presence of figures, women, birds, dogs, insects, beings halfway between man and animal, and fantastical beasts; on the other, references to the abstract universe of stars, comets and the cosmic void, expressed in floating, airy figures and representations of the sun and minuscule constella-tions. This duality between the earthly and the ethereal, the fleshly and the spiritual, which opposes the female figure of the “mother goddess” to that of the “artist bird”, is intrinsic to Miró’s personality and underlies his entire output. Figures and birds are thus his favourite subjects – as though the artist could not escape this tension, this oscillation between the original material that gives birth and from which everything is engendered, and the world of dreams, marvels and creation in a pure, idealised form.
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THE CENTRE POMPIDOU MÁLAGA, THE FIRST POP-UP POMPIDOU
The first “Pop-Up Pompidou” opened to the public in Málaga, Andalusia, on March 28 2015. The “Centre Pompidou Málaga” will be staying for five years in the Cubo, a cultural centre built on the city’s habour in 2013 and adapted to host the Pop-up Pompidou.
It offers a very wide public a chance to experience the Centre Pompidou through its large and varied collection, its excellent programme, its mix of artistic disciplines and its innovative mediation programmes.
In Málaga, the Pop-Up Pompidou features a permanent circuit of approximately ninety works chosen from the Centre Pompidou’s incomparable collection, inviting audiences to a journey through the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. It presents two to three themed or monographic temporary exhibitions each year, devised by the Centre Pompidou’s curators and drawn from the various segments of the collection (including photography, design, architecture and video). The “Pompidou experience” also takes the form of multidisciplinary programmes devoted to dance, performance, the spoken word and cinema, and the aid provided by mediation set-ups, designed for younger audiences in particular.
The municipality of Málaga invited French artist Daniel Buren to create a temporaryin situ installation entitled Incubé [Incubated]. Adorning the Cubo’s glass façadewith coloured squares alternating with his “visual tools” composed of 8.7 cm wide stripes, the famous artist thus contributes to the visibility of the Centre Pompidou Málagaand hallmarks the cityscape with his world-renowned signature.
Pop-up Pompidous are designed to display the Centre Pompidou collection, and more broadly, to create or consolidate new networks abroad, and attract new audiences in France and throughout the world.
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Incubé, Travail in situ, Daniel Buren, Mars 2015© Carlos Criado, Ayuntamiento de Málaga
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THE « POP-UP POMPIDOU » CONCEPT
This concept draws on all the experience, innovations and success of the Mobile Centre Pompidou: an experimental project which travelled around France between October 2011 and September 2013, attracting some 250,000 visitors. Pop-up Pompidous will further the cultural decentralisation initiative embodied in the Mobile Centre Pompidou, and become the spearhead of the institution’s international development.
They can be set up in existing museums, museographic or heritage venues as yet without a programme or currently being transformed, and also venues that are not dedicated to culture and are in the process of being re-qualified. Working hand-in-hand with local cultural networks, the Pop-up Pompidous will thus act as a leaven or a “cultural driving force”.
Outside France, Pop-up Pompidous will be the means for establishing new connections with emerging contemporary art scenes, thus furthering the development and influence of the Centre Pompidou collection – one of the world’s two largest in modern and contemporary art, with nearly 100,000 works.
They will help to consolidate the Centre Pompidou model by further highlighting its extraordinary collection, expertise and values. They will also foster more enduring relations than those permitted by classical temporary travelling exhibitions, by generating new resources in new territories of artistic globalisation.
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THE TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU MÁLAGA
In a dedicated area of 363 m² on level 0 of El Cubo, a programme of two or three temporary exhibitions is presented each year to visitors of the Centre Pompidou Málaga.
These exhibitions, lasting from 3 to 6 months (depending on the type of works on show), are devised by curators of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and draw on various segments of the Centre Pompidou collection, such as photography, design, architecture, video…
Between these exhibitions, events open to other creative disciplines and the movement of ideas – such as dance, film and the spoken word – are scheduled for shorter periods in the same area, thus helping to create a buzz.
THE NEXT TEMPORARY EXHIBITION FOLLOWING JOAN MIRO, WORKS ON PAPER 1960-1978 WILL BE :
ELLES SONT MODERNES, ELLES SONT PHOTOGRAPHES19 OCTOBER 2015 – 25 JANUARY 2016
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PERMANENT CIRCUIT OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU MÁLAGA
In Málaga, a permanent themed circuit presents a selection of around 90 works from the Centre Pompidou collection. “There are several things at stake with this inaugural permanent exhibition presented in the “Centre Pompidou Málaga». Through a varied overview representative of the Centre Pompidou collections, it aims to show the many facets of modern and contemporary represen-tation; to restore its fragmented image, through the way artists looked at the Other and themselves and the way the avant-gardes systematically deconstructed narrative and vision, and to reflect the mirror of the image back to the viewers, thus immersing them in the imagination of their times,” says Brigitte Leal, who is head heritage curator and assis-tant director at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, and curated the “Centre Pompidou Málaga” display selected from its collections. For two and a half years, this display of a selection of works from the centre Pompidou collec-tion can be seen in an area of 2,000 m². Five main themes are covered in the circuit: metamor-phoses, self-portraits, the man without a face, the political body and the body in pieces.
PERMANENT CIRCUIT
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Centre Pompidou Málaga
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Joan Miró, Figure, bird, 1976Centre Pompidou, Paris©Jacques Faujour – Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Dist.RMN-GP © Successió Miró / Adagp,Paris
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Joan Miró, Dog, 1977Centre Pompidou, Paris©Jacques Faujour – Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Dist.RMN-GP © Successió Miró / Adagp,Paris
Joan Miró, Figures, 1960Centre Pompidou, Paris©Jacques Faujour – Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Dist.RMN-GP © Successió Miró / Adagp,Paris
Joan Miró, Figures and birds, 1960Centre Pompidou, Paris©Jacques Faujour – Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Dist.RMN-GP © Successió Miró / Adagp,Paris
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INFORMATION CURATOR
Centre Pompidou Málaga
Pasaje Dr. Carrillo Casaux (Muelle Uno)
Puerto de Málaga
29016 Málaga
España
Exhibition opening hours
Between 16 May and 15 June: 9.30 a.m.
to 8.00 p.m. Between 16 June and 28
September: 11.00 a.m. to
10.00 p.m.
Last admission thirty minutes before
the museum closes.
Closed on: Tuesdays, January 1 and
December 25
Fares
Permanent collection: 7€, concessions,
4€ Temporary exhibition: 4€,
concessions, 2.50€ Permanent
collection + temporary exhibition: 9€,
concessions, 5.50€
Jonas Storsve
Keeper of the Department of Drawings /
MNAM / Centre Pompidou
PRACTICAL INFORMATION