Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art travels with Miró to Naples, Italy

The exhibit "Joan Miró and the Language of Signs", organised by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, opened to the public on 25 September at the Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (PAN), in Naples, Italy. 

For the first time on show in Naples, this exhibit will run from 25 September 2019 till 23 February 2020.

"With this touring exhibition, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art fulfils its mission do disseminate the Miró Collection, by means of a comprehensive and diversified travelling exhibition programme and international coproduction", announced the Serralves Museum in a statement.

The same masterpieces that have been admired by over 300,000 visitors, when they were presented for the first time at the Serralves Museum in Porto between October 2016 and June 2017, are now on display at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (PAN), in Naples, Italy.

 "Joan Miró and the Language of Signs" is organized by the Serralves Foundation of Porto with C.O.R. Creating Organize Realize by Alessandro Nicosia. It is promoted by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples, with the patronage of the Embassy of Portugal in Italy and the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

The exhibition curated by Robert Lubar Messeri brings to the public eye Miro's paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and tapestries covering six decades (1924-1981) of the work Joan Miró has developed and that makes him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

The Miró collection arrived in Porto in September 2016, the city where it will remain permanently and that was the moment a set of works of the surrealist painter was unveiled to the public, for the first time in years, as the 80 masterpieces of Joan Miró remained unknown to the general public for many years, for they belonged to one of the most authoritative and refined modern art dealers, Pierre Matisse - son of the most famous painter Henri.

One of Miró's famous quotes is "to me conquering freedom means conquering simplicity. At the very limit, then, one line, one color can make a painting". Also significant is this thought, expressed by the famous Spanish artist in 1959: "More than the picture itself is what emanates, that transmits.

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