"The Ladder of Escape" at the Miró Foundation

Until next March, the Miró Foundation is displaying out once in a lifetime temporary exhibit: "The Ladder of Escape". This show has already been a total success in the Tate Modern in London, and will be heading afterwards to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

This is a unique opportunity to see together over 150 works by the artist that are rarely seen together, many of them hardly ever leaving their places of origin.

The name of the exhibit refers to one of the symbols that Miró used more often in his works: a ladder representing his need to escape from the tough events that Europe had to endure during the first half of the 20th century, and his wish to reach a world of poetry in the starry night of his dreams.


Although it is not conceived as a retrospective of the artist, it does cover most of Miró's evolution: from his early years of detailist paintings imbued in Catalan influences, to the anguish of the Spanish Civil War and World War II reflected in his tortured deformed figures, to the birth of his celebrated symbology made of birds, moons and stars, to the influence at the end of his life of the American avant-garde and the Japanese art that took him to a word of expressivity, lyricism and minimalism.

The exhibit opened a couple of weeks ago, but I've been so busy I couldn't find a moment to check it out. However, I have made some research in case a client asked me to take them there. And that was a good idea!

The Ustundag asked me give them a tour of the Miró Museum today, and even if I hadn't been there yet, I managed to give them a pretty good tour! The only ifficulty was that I didn't know what I was going to find in each room, nor how the works would be displayed. But I had enough information, and being very familiar with the usual permanent collection, I was able to create a decent line of speech. Anyway, I can wait to be less busy and have a free morning to spend there preparing it even better!

By the way, since the new exhibit opened there's been long lines in the Museum. Good thing that official tourguides get to skip them!




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