JOAN MIRÓ

EVERYTHING IS POETRY. WÜRTH COLLECTION

25. OCTOBER 2024 TO 22. JUNE 2025

The exhibition “Joan Miró – Everything is Poetry. Würth Collection” presents mainly graphic art from the late oeuvre of the world-famous Catalan artist. This monographic show at the Forum Würth Rorschach provides the opportunity to engage with this particular section of the collection in an intimate framework and in greater depth.

The works by the Catalan artist – from prints and draw-ings via multi-part book illustrations to sculpture – highlight the artist’s artistic and technical diversity. After all, Joan Miró saw himself as a “peintre-poète” (a painter-poet). Joan Miró (1893–1983) is regarded as one of the famous representatives of Surrealism alongside his contempor-aries Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and André Masson. Like his companions, Miró also developed a pictorial idiom of his own. His aesthetic is determined by abstraction and characterised by symbolic forms and clear colours. His great recognition value is due to a highly distinctive pictorial idiom. Although the motifs are seemingly spontaneous and improvised, sometimes even childlike and playful, they are the result of calculated preparatory work and, in the face of a civil war in Spain marked by fascism and viol-ence, sometimes conceal their serious subtext. This combination of works by Joan Miró provides insight into the artist's life and work and at the same time points to the multifarious influences that shaped his oeuvre: Paris intellectuals, theatre and poetry, as well as intuition and the natural forms of the Spanish landscape.