Exhibitions spring 2011 / EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Joan Miró4.3.-12.6.2011EMMA’s Joan Miró exhibition concentrates on the artist’s sculptures from the years 1949-1981. There are 33 of them accompanied by 64 paintings, drawings and graphics. It’s easy to feel at home with the abstract surrealist paintings of the Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983), likewise with the crazy form language of his sculptures. The form language, materials and mood of his works reveal an insatiable joie de vivre, powerful sensuality and sense of humour behind which also lurks his lesser known pessimism. He has said that the humour in his works is the