Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)

ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - TEMPORARY EXEIIBITIONS - IDŐSZAKI KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - MÁRTON OROSZ: Chamber Exhibition of the Works of Joan Miró

61. Interior view of the exhibition Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. Albeit the Spanish museum only rather late, on the occasion of the centenary of Picasso's birth, in 1980, obtained its first Miró painting, by three years later, it successfully achieved, in the course of systematic acquisition commenced after the artist's death, to have every creative period of the master represented within the collection, and as we have been able to see, with no constraint of genres. The selection presented in the exhibition gathered Miró's later, clarified and mature works. The earliest composition, Head of a Man, made in 1935, stands alone as the single representative of those "wild pictures" in which the painter - as he put it attempted to "kill painting". The "sculptures" assembled "at random" from collages and found objects in the mid1920s manifest the preliminaries of his statues, in which the automatism of the Surrealists is formally revived. These constructions evoke the close connection of the artist with the Parisian Rue Blomet group. In his later bronze sculptures, Miró engaged in the issue of the conscious combining and harmonising of found objects. The exhibition presented nine of these. The majority of sculptures were made in the second half of the 1960s, thematically depicting the surreal, ironic and at the same time, decorative symbiosis of the feminine and masculine realm. The heterogeneous objects constructed in their patinated bronze, homogeneous mould do not lose their own character, but collectively create a fragile vision, precarious in every detail, but joyous all the same. The symbolic imbroglio reminiscent of prehistoric hieroglyphics carved into the surface of the sculpture creates for Miró the visual lexicon, his autonomous mother tongue of fine arts, which rendered so suitably the permeability between artistic genres.