The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will exhibit this summer over 20 sculptures from international museums and private collections by Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983). The exhibition will be open to the public until October 11 2015. This is the third in a series of five open air exhibits at the gardens of the Rijksmuseum, which previously held exhibitions by Henry Moore and Alexander Calder.
The Miró works are surrounded by original formal garden styles, historical building fragments, sculptures and ponds. The opening of the exhibition took place on June 19. The exhibition will run until October 11.
More information can be found at the website of the Rijksmuseum.
Another Miró exhibition will take place in The Netherlands this year. The Cobra Museum of Amstelveen will present “Miró and Cobra. The Joy of Experiment”, focused on Miró´s influence on Cobra Group members.
It will display 80 works by Miró and 40 by different artists related to the Cobra Group. The exhibition will run from October 9 to January 31. It will be the most important Miró exhibition in the Netherlands in the last 60 years.
