Exhibitions
Landscapes of Origin: the visual dialogue between Picasso and Miró through Jean Marie del Moral
An exhibition at the Espai Zero of the Miró Foundation in Palma explores Horta de Sant Joan and Mont-roig del Camp as the creative cradles of the two great artists of the 20th century.
The Spanish-French photographer Jean Marie del Moral presents a new exhibition that delves into the geographical origins of the work of Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. The exhibition, entitled Miró Mont-roig / Horta Picasso , can be visited from April 15 to September 6, 2026 at Espai Zero, as part of the Mallorca PhotoFest.
The inauguration was attended by the director of the Foundation, Antònia Maria Perelló, accompanied by the councilor for Culture of Cort, Javier Bonet, as well as the project curator, Manuel Guerrero Brullet, a collaborator of bonart.
The exhibition proposes a visual journey through Horta de Sant Joan and Mont-roig del Camp, two enclaves separated by only eighty kilometers but united by the same landscape essence. Olive groves, vineyards, almond trees and ochre lands make up a shared setting that, according to Del Moral, reveals surprising parallels between the creative universes of the two artists.
These visual connections are not anecdotal. It was in Horta de Sant Joan that Picasso began Cubism in 1909, while, a decade later, Miró found inspiration for his most detailed works in Mont-roig del Camp. Del Moral's sixty photographs capture this conceptual and emotional proximity, establishing a poetic dialogue between two giants of 20th-century art.
The photographer especially remembers his first encounter with Miró, in 1978, when, at just 26 years old, he visited him in Son Abrines to take his portrait. That experience transformed his way of understanding photography: the artist's studio revealed itself as a mental space full of imaginaries.
Del Moral also highlights that, despite the importance of these territories in the genesis of his works, they have been little explored from a comparative artistic perspective. In this sense, his proposal becomes an invitation to rediscover them.
Defining Miró as a "symbol of human dignity", the photographer acknowledges the profound mark that the artist has left on his career. He defines himself as "a Spaniard born in France, son of exiled republicans", an identity that also crosses his gaze.
This exhibition, promoted by the Palau Foundation, is not only a tribute to the landscapes that inspired Picasso and Miró, but also a reflection on how territory can shape the artistic imagination. A visual journey that connects places, memory and creation.
You may be
interested
...
