Mirό of Majorca

Cyprus : Mirό of Majorca

Exhibition with works by Spanish artist Joan Mirό and entitled “Mirό of Majorca.” In the exhibition a great number of paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings and sketches for sculptures, works for public art, ballet, and music by the artist are presented. The artist concentrates in his work on surreal symbolic-forms, such as the woman, landscapes, the world of the sky, the sun, the moon, and others.

Greek-born Queen Sophia of Spain will be visiting Cyprus for the first time to inaugurate the exhibition on Friday 12 March, at 20:00. Present at the opening of the exhibition will also be the Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos.

This is the first time that an exhibition of such magnitude focusing on the work of a great artist is organised in Cyprus. This prominent exhibition is organised in the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and the Spanish Government dedicates the event to the 50th Anniversary of the Cyprus Republic.

Mirό and Picasso are considered to be amongst the fathers of modern painting. An impressively multidimensional and productive artist, Mirό was the narrator of mythical and lyrical stories. A poet of images, whose idiom is characterised by signs and symbols, metaphorically illuminated and charged, rising from the subconscious.

He was born in 1893 in Barcelona and at the age of 14 he enrolled at the School of Economics while at the same time he secretly studied at the School of Fine Arts and later at the Galí Academy, until 1915. In 1920, he moved to Paris where he participated in the artistic lobbies of Montmartre and was acquainted first with the Dadaists and then with the Surrealists under the influence of whom he started shaping a special and personal way of painting. André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, described him as “the most Surrealist of us all”.

Opening Hours
Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-15:00 & 17:00- 23:00
Sunday: 10:00-16:00
Monday: Closed

When

From: Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Until: Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Time: See Description

Where

19 Palias Ilektrikis Street
Nicosia, Nicosia 1016, Cyprus
Email:
Phone: 22797400

Contact

Phone: 22797400

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