The artist Joan Miró “travels” to Argentina

The exhibition focused on the work of Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) over the last two decades of his life. It included fifty works completed between 1963 and 1981: eighteen painting, six drawings and twenty-six sculptures – as well as two documentary in which Miró is interviewed on some of his life as an artist: Miró parla (Miró talks) and Miró, l’altre (Miró, the other one). The exhibition in the Argentine museum was possible thanks to the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Spanish Embassy in Argentina, the Friends of Fine Arts Association and Abertis. 

From an early age, Miró was linked to the modern art of the Parisian avant-garde scene. However, in around the mid-fifties of the last century, he moved to a new workshop-home in Son Abrines, Majorca, where he brought together all his creation for the very first time. He began a process of introspection during that time, which led him to the utmost simplification of the universe in his work, in which nature and the human figure were frequently represented. 

The exhibition provided an insight into Miró’s renewed painting style in which the artist intensified his work directly onto the canvas, using large formats and emphasising the possibilities of brush strokes and the qualities of the material. This led him to simplification in both the definition of the shape and in the use of colour, to make “the figures seem more human and more alive than they would be if represented in all their detail”, as Miró himself said in 1959.

Art, accessible to all

Throughout this Report, readers will become aware of Abertis’ sensitivity for people with disabilities. Part of the Group’s collaboration with the Joan Miró Foundation in 2018 sought specifically to respond to people with motor or sensory disabilities as part of the Foundation’s Accessibility Plan. This consists of adapting spaces and furniture so access is possible by all publics, fostering their autonomy. Therefore, visits adapted to groups with visual and cognitive disabilities, to people with mental health disorders, the elderly or those with a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s, and people with hearing difficulties will be possible thanks to a sign-language interpreter. The improvements include the guided tours of the permanent collection and of the temporary collections.