Arkas Art Center will host the exhibition titled Joan Miró: Image, Text, Sign, featuring the works of Joan Miró, a Catalan painter and sculptor born in Barcelona, who has created these works with a wide variety of techniques throughout his life. The exhibition, which will present Miró’s understanding of art centered on his imagination to the audience with a comprehensive selection, will be organized by the Serralves Foundation in collaboration with Arkas Art Center between September 26, 2024 and February 9, 2025.
Joan Miró: Image, Text, Sign, curated by art historian and academic Robert Lubar Messeri, focuses on the works of Miró created between 1924 and 1981. The exhibition includes 74 works from the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection, under the auspices of the Serralves Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal.
An unprecedented selection in Türkiye
The exhibition will be one of the most comprehensive Miró exhibitions ever organized in Türkiye, featuring the works of Miró, known as the pioneer of contemporary art and one of the most important figures of the modernist movement. These works were created on various surfaces such as packaging, paper, masonite, panels, tapestries, burlap and newspapers, and with techniques such as bronze, driftwood and ceramics.
Within the scope of the exhibition, in addition to the paintings which the artist became famous for, the Sobreteixims series, which aims to bridge the distinction between paintings and fabrics, and an example from Burnt Canvases, which emphasizes that art can be used as a powerful tool of criticism beyond being an aesthetic expression, will be exhibited for the first time in Türkiye.
Miró’s 60-year career under the spotlight
Established in 1989, the Serralves Foundation aims to promote contemporary art and establish a dialogue between the public and art under the mission of supporting, presenting and protecting contemporary art, architecture, and environmental planning. Since its establishment, it has hosted various exhibitions featuring the works of Portuguese and international artists. Arkas Art Center brings together the audience with the Serralves Foundation, which matches its mission, with an international figure, who has contributed to world heritage, from a perspective never seen before in Türkiye.
Addressing Miró’s irreducible artistic personality and his creative journey of 60 years, the exhibition Joan Miró: Image, Text, Sign will welcome visitors at Arkas Art Center every day except Mondays between September 26, 2024 and February 9, 2025.
All kinds of publications such as news, posters, etc. to be made within the scope of the Joan Miró: Image, Text, Sign exhibition must use the following note and the identification information of the works to be used must be written. We hereby inform you that if the works are used without the identification information despite this information and warning given to you, any direct and indirect damages that Arkas Sanat A.Ş. may suffer will be incurred by you and we declare that Arkas Sanat A.Ş. reserves its legal rights.
The Joan Miró State Collection of Contemporary Art, lent to the Municipality of Porto for a long term and located at the Serralves Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, includes paintings, collages, sculptures, drawings and textiles by the renowned Catalan artist. The exhibition is organized by Serralves Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Arkas Art Center.