Paris – Maillol Museum from March 16 to July 31, 2011
Maillol Museum pays tribute to the work of Joan Miró sculpture. If the artist is universally recognized, his sculptures have been the subject of an exhibition in Paris for nearly 40 years. The museum brings to 99 the opportunity sculptures, 22 ceramics and 20 works on paper. The provenance of most of them is the exceptional collection of Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation.
His first ceramics with Josep Llorens Artigas performed, date from 1941-1945. Soon after, Miro running his first sculptures in bronze.
In 1964, Joan Miro participates in the creation of the Fondation Maeght, where he finally found a place for which he will create monumental works. The meeting between Joan Miró and Aimé Maeght was essential. For the first time the sculpture by Miró is intentionally associated with the architecture and nature for him endless source of inspiration and it will create specifically for the Foundation Maeght a garden of monumental sculptures and ceramics, dreamlike world people the « Labyrinth », which recalls that Miro is not only a painter but also a sculptor.
In 1974, ten years after the opening of the Fondation Maeght, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Ville de Paris presented a set of sculptures by Joan Miró. Almost 40 years later, the Maillol Museum Miro situates this in mind and pays tribute to this great artist, just as Picasso was a painter and sculptor.
Musée Maillol : 61, rue de Grenelle – 75007 Paris.
More informations: http://www.museemaillol.com
