9 October 2015 – 31 January 2016, Amstelveen.
The Cobra Museum in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam, will present “Miró & CoBrA. Experimental Play”. This is the first mayor exhibition by Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) in the Netherlands in the last 60 years. The work in the exhibition demonstrates Miró’s radical liberation from form, gesture and material, and shows a striking correspondence to the works of CoBrA members, an international group of post war artists (1948-1951).
The exhibition includes more than 80 works by Joan Miró and 60 works by various Cobra artists including Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Constant and Pierre Alechinsky. A central part of the exhibition is the reconstruction of Miró’s studio in Mallorca, consisting of more than 40 original objects and shown for the first time on such a large scale.
This part of the exhibition has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca. There are also loans of Miro’s work from international museums such as the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, New York’s Guggenheim Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
“Miró & CoBrA. Experimental Play” is on show from 9 October 2015 to 31 January 2016.
More information can be found at the website of the Cobra Museum.
