Moneo building
Space Zero
L'edifici Moneo, seu actual de la Miró Mallorca Fundació, es va inaugurar el 1992. Projectat per l'arquitecte Rafael Moneo és el resultat de la donació de Pilar Juncosa, vídua de Miró, a la Ciutat de Palma.
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Exhibition space
- Space Zero
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Dates
- 15 April — 6 September 2026
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Inauguration
- 15 April 2026
- 19:00
Jean Marie del Moral, photographs. Horta Picasso – Miró Mont-Roig
Jean Marie del Moral, a French photographer based in Mallorca, known for his series of photographs of artists' studios, explores in this exhibition the relationship between Miró and Picasso through the landscapes of Mont-roig del Camp and Horta de Sant Joan.
Picasso and Miró loved the same things, saw the same things, said the same thing, yet they painted in different ways. In the autumn of 2022, Jean Marie del Moral once again traversed the landscapes and environs of Horta de Sant Joan and Mont-roig del Camp. The photographer has long been familiar with these two towns separated by just 80 kilometres, surrounded by the same olive trees, the same vines, the same almond trees, the same ochre soils, the same mountains with rolling curves just like Cézanne’s Sainte-Victoire.
It was in Horta de Sant Joan that Picasso launched Cubism in 1909. And it was in Mont-roig del Camp ten years later that Miró painted his Detailist paintings. These sixty photographs, a poetic look at the strange similarities nestling in the walls of convents, in rocks sculpted by nature and chapels perching in similar fashion, subtly reveal the same imaginary: the one shared by two giants of the twentieth century.
Manel Guerrero. Curator.
Biography of Jean Marie del Moral
The son of Spanish parents exiled from the Civil War, he has been working as a photographer since the age of 14. He started as an assistant in the photography department of an aeronautical company. In 1973 he joined the staff of the French communist newspaper L’Humanité as a photographer, producing social interest reports, and in 1974 he moved to Canada and the United States, where he discovered great photographers, such as Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Irving Penn and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. He worked as a photographer on the documentary of the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976. Upon returning to Europe in 1977 he collaborated with several magazines and photographed Joan Miró for a report on Spanish intellectuals after the death of Franco.
The meeting with Miró would determine the direction of his future work in photography. Since then he has photographed the workshops and creative processes of painters and sculptors from all over the world, such as Miquel Barceló, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Saura, Julian Schnabel and Zao Wou-Ki, among others. He directed the documentaries Les ateliers de Barceló (1991) and Picasso y la tauromaquia (1993).
A contributor to Vogue, Madame Figaro, El País Semanal, Matador and Travel and Leisure, among other publications, his work has been exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles (1988) and in museums such as the Museu Da Cidade in Lisbon (2004), the el Centro Conde Duque in Madrid (2004), the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Cuenca, the Fundación Antonio Pérez in Cuenca (2004) PHotoEspaña 2007, and the Museo de Obra Gráfica San Clemente in Cuenca (2008), among others. His works are in the collections of the Fundación Pérez (Cuenca), the Fundación Apeles Fenosa (El Vendrell), the IVAM, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca and the Fundación Pollock-Krasner (New York).
This exhibition will be the contribution of Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca to the new PHOTOFEST competition, an initiative of the Art Palma Contemporani gallery association, which will have its first edition in April and May 2026.
