Exhibitions
Joan Miró more radical and vibrant: Paysage Miró shakes up Es Baluard with a new look at the artist
Second stop of the exhibition in Palma after visiting La Llotja with La força inicial.
This summer, Palma pays tribute to Joan Miró with Paysage Miró , a major exhibition spread across four main spaces: the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, Casal Solleric and La Llotja. 117 works are on display, including 53 pieces loaned by the Museo Reina Sofía, as well as documents, unpublished works and materials from the artist's workshops.
Joan Miró, born in Barcelona in 1893, maintained a deep bond with Mallorca thanks to his mother, who was originally from the island. As a child, he spent long periods there with his grandparents, experiences that would mark his artistic sensibility. In 1929, he married Pilar Juncosa, also from Mallorca, in Palma, and during the Second World War the couple found refuge there, far from Franco's repression, in an environment that allowed him to work in peace.
Joan Miró, Painting, 1950. Oil on canvas, 145 x 103.5 cm. Mallorca, 2014. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Temporary deposit private collection, Palma, Mallorca, 2014. ©Miró Succession, 2025. Photograph: © Archivo Fotográfico Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
In 1956, Miró settled there permanently, acquiring the Son Abrines estate. There, his friend and architect Josep Lluís Sert designed a custom-made workshop for him: a space designed to preserve the artist's concentration, with walls that protected his gaze from the temptations of the sea and invited him to fully immerse himself in his own creative universe.
At Es Baluard Museu, Painting Between Things has been created with Joan Miró's most radical and experimental stage. The selection of works, curated by David Barro, Antònia Maria Perelló and Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, includes outstanding and iconic pieces by the artist. At Es Baluard, the exhibition proposes an innovative and provocative vision of Joan Miró, emphasizing his painting as a territory where gesture, sign and texture come together to overcome classic forms of representation.
Joan Miró's Paysage de Mont-roig is a tribute to the landscape of Mont-roig del Camp, a place that profoundly marked the artist's artistic career. This place was a constant source of inspiration, especially during the early years of his career, when Miró began to experiment with the shapes and colors that surrounded his natural environment.
Joan Miró, Paysage de Mont-roig, 1916. Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 46 cm. Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art in Palma, Serra Collection deposit. © Successió Miró, 2025. Photography: Joan Ramon Bonet
Through this painting, Miró transcends the literal representation of the landscape to offer a symbolic and poetic expression, where figurative elements and an abstraction full of lyricism converge. “Paysage de Mont-roig” conveys the artist’s intimate connection with Mediterranean nature through a vibrant palette and forms that evoke the movement and life of this territory. It is, in short, a reflection of Miró’s unique way of reinventing the landscape through his artistic vision.
It is recommended to start this pictorial experience by Paysage Miró with La Llotja de Palma and La força inicial with the large-format sculptures, to land at Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma and the exhibition Pintar entre les coses. Of the experimental and radical works by Joan Miró, we should go to Casal Solleric and the Fundació Miró Mallorca and La guspira màgica.
