II International Symposium on the Work of Joan Miró

The first international symposium dedicated to the work of Joan Miró, held last year and coordinated by Enrique Juncosa Cirer, was met with great success, and it has been decided to make it an annual event. This year, the symposium will feature Matthew Gale, Juan Manuel Bonet, and Joan Maria Minguet Batllori, three prominent specialists in the early avant-gardes.

II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE WORK OF JOAN MIRÓ
On April 4th and 5th, 2025
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Lectures
Matthew Gale, curator at Tate Modern in London, was co-curator, along with Marko Daniel, of the last major Miró exhibition held in 2011 at the prestigious British museum and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. This exhibition emphasized the political aspects of Miró’s work. Gale will discuss Miró’s relationships with international intellectuals in Palma.

Juan Manuel Bonet, former director of the Museo Reina Sofía, the IVAM, and the Instituto Cervantes, and author of the seminal Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes in Spain (1995), is also a prominent poet and a well-known bibliophile. His lecture will focus on Miró’s relationship with the world of poetry.

Joan Maria Minguet Batllori, historian, writer, and curator of exhibitions including one on Joan Miró organized at the IVAM. In the symposium, he will focus on the major Miró exhibition held at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1974.

Commissioner
Enrique Juncosa (Palma, 1961) is a poet, writer, and curator. He was deputy director of the Museo Reina Sofía and the IVAM, and director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, a position for which he was awarded the Order of Civil Merit.

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