Miró's 'Blues' move to the Grenoble Museum of Art during the remodeling of the Pompidou

Grenoble (France), Apr 27 (EFE) - The closure of the Pompidou Center in Paris for works in 2025 has led to the triptych of Joan Miró's 'Azules' to leave its home and join 130 works from the Grenoble Art Museum in an exhibition that shows the duality of his personality, between dream and nightmare.

Called 'Miró, a bonfire of signs', the exhibition highlights the artistic freedom that the Catalan painter (1893-1983) defended and the constant experimentation that characterized his work, made up of paintings, graphics, glued papers, and sculptures.

CAMERA: RAQUEL FERNÁNDEZ

FOOTAGE OF MIRÓ'S BLUE AT THE GRENOBLE ART MUSEUM.

SOUNDBITES OF ONE OF THE CURATORS OF THE EXHIBITION 'MIRÓ, A BONFIRE OF SIGNS', SOPHIE BERNARD.

1.- "This question of dualism in the exhibition, the idea was to show beyond perhaps the image we have of the oneirism of Miró's innocent world, of childhoodof Miró's innocent world, of childhood. There is something more complex, perhaps, more metaphysical, darker, that runs through all his work. This ambivalence, this duality, this complexity as well".

2.- "In any case, there is this idea of the invention of childhood that is perpetually found in Miró and that, in my opinion, characterizes him. And then there is Miró's capacity for rupture, for constant change of style".

3.- "It is clear that his attachment to Catalonia is legendary. Miró kept coming back to this little village of Montroig where his parents had had a farm in 1911. He came back again and again and I think this attachment to Catalonia is also an attachment to a land. It is an attachment to the colors, to the immense skies. He often speaks of the skies of Catalonia, he speaks of the Catalan blue and all these elements permeate his work until the end".

4.- "From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, you will see almost all of Miró's drawings titled 'Bird Woman,' 'Birds,' 'Figures and Birds.' And I think it is a kind of mythology. Jacques Dupin, his biographer, said that Miró's drawings were intercessors with a world beyond."