cover: Joan Miró, The Farm (detail), 1921 – 1922, , Washington, Gift of Mary Hemingway National Gallery of Art Public Symposium

Joan Miró

June 1 12:00 – 5:00 / June 2 11:00 – 3:00 East Building Auditorium

www.nga.gov June 2 12:00 – 12:45 12:45 – 1:45 break Public Symposium Joan Miró 11:00 – 11:15 Miró’s Studios: Reflecting His Roots, His References, and His Memories 1:45 – 2:30 Introduction June 1 12:00 – 5:00 / June 2 11:00 – 3:00 / East Building Auditorium Maria Luisa Lax, curator and head L’Oeuvre de guerre of Miró: Constel- Felix Monguilot Benzal, graduate of collections, Fundació Pilar i Joan lation Series, Série , and curatorial fellow, National Gallery Miró a Mallorca Ceramics, 1940 – 1945 of Art This lecture explores the role of Jaume Reus, art historian and curator June 1 1:00 – 1:45 Ultimately, we will want to know 11:15 – 12:00 Miró’s studios in Palma as an es- The aim of this lecture is to consider Perspective, Position, and Politics: what kind of perspective Miró’s “The Farm”: Primitivism and sential instrument in his artistic 12:00 – 12:10 Miró’s personal escape from the Joan Miró works of the late 1910s through the Transfiguration practice from the time he moved to Opening Remarks Mallorca in 1956. These work spaces context of war and dictatorship Charles Palermo, Alumni Memo- early 1930s afford their beholder, Maria-Josep Balsach, professor Faya Causey, head of academic have a documentary value and, in and the internal exile he felt during rial Term Distinguished Associate and what kind of subject position of contemporary art, University programs, National Gallery of Art conjunction with correspondence, the first half of the 1940s. Reus will Professor of Art History, The College they project for that beholder. of Girona, , Spain statements, notes, and photographs, explain that the reason Miró needed 12:10 – 12:15 of William & Mary This lecture presents an icono- 1:45 – 2:00 break reveal information beyond the art- to exhibit this work in New York and Palermo’s first book, Fixed Ecstasy: graphic interpretation of The Farm Introduction ist’s methods and materials. was to show his commitment Joan Miró in the 1920s, appeared (1921 – 1922), based on the formal Felix Monguilot Benzal, graduate 2:00 – 2:30 Maria Luisa Lax received a to freedom. As the artist himself in Penn State University Press’ context of that calligraphic period curatorial fellow, National Gallery Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape degree in museum studies from explained, it is more than work of Refiguring Modernism series. He and the symbolic and alchemical of Art Narrated by Ed Harris and produced Leicester University. Since 2001 she aesthetic interest; it also has a per- has published on Miró, Michel Leiris, elements that Miró incorporated by the Gallery, this film examines has worked for the Fundació Pilar i sonal and human importance. Peter Henry Emerson, and Pablo after meeting surrealist painter 12:15 – 1:00 the impact of the Spanish Civil War, Joan Miró a Mallorca, and has been Jaume Reus received his PhD Picasso, among others. His most André Masson and the other Carob Link: A Promenade the fascism of the Franco regime, curator and head of the collec- from the University of the Balearic recent projects have addressed members of the “groupe de la Rue with Miró and the events of World War II on tions since 2004. She was general Islands, Spain, in 2004, where he was the early work of Picasso and the Blomet.” The hidden meaning of Benet Rossell, artist Miró’s career. Made possible by the editor of the 2005 catalogue Miró, a lecturer for seven years. He has artist’s friend, poet Guillaume this sheds light on the In his lecture, Rossell will discuss hrh Foundation. featuring a selection of the paint- written extensively on conceptual Apollinaire, and James Agee and radical experimentation of paint- how he met Miró and the influence ings, sculptures, and drawings in art, emerging art, Latin American art, Walker Evans’ Let Us Now Praise 2:30 – 3:00 ings of the 1920s and their abstract that Miró had on his work and on the foundation’s collection. She has and Joan Miró. He has worked at the Famous Men. He is an editor of a mutation of reality. other Catalan artists today. Rossell’s Remarks organized and curated multiple Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca peer-reviewed open-access online Professor Balsach teaches video 1000 a Miró, which was dedi- Felix Monguilot Benzal, graduate Miró-related exhibitions, includ- and the Es Baluard Museum of Mod- scholarly journal of the humanities, contemporary art at the University cated to the artist in 1993, will also curatorial fellow, National Gallery ing Joan Miró: Topographies (2005), ern and Contemporary Art in Palma nonsite.org. of Girona. She has written exten- be screened. of Art Joan Miró: Landscapes (2006), Miró: de Mallorca, Spain. This lecture entertains the sively on art and aesthetics of the Born in Catalonia in 1937, Evoking the Female Figure (2008), thesis that the position a work of 3:00 twentieth century. Her research 2:30 Rossell is one of the most exhibited and Miró: Poetry and Light (2010). art offers a spectator determines on Joan Miró’s work began in 1996 Q & A Session Catalan artists of his generation. Q & A Session She most recently contributed the and reveals something about the when she was awarded a Joan In 2011, a major exhibition of his essay “The Civic Responsibility of work’s politics. The mode of per- Miró Grant to complete the study work was held at the Museum of the Artist” to the catalogue of the spective a work uses tells us much The Gold of the Azure. In 2007 she Contemporary Art in Barcelona. exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder about how or whether it proposes published Joan Miró: Cosmogonies Drawing upon Miró for inspiration, of Escape, which opened at Tate a fixed point for its beholder and of an Original World (1918 – 1939), Rossell creates work that spans Modern in 2011 and is on display at whether multiple beholders can which won the Barcelona City Essay many media, from drawing, paint- the National Gallery of Art through obtain equally privileged views of Award. One of the chapters of this ing, tapestry, and ceramics to poetry, August 12, 2012. it simultaneously — in short, what book, “Dog Barking at the Moon,” is performance, experimental film, This program is coordinated with kind of subject and what kind of dedicated to the motif of the ladder and theater. He lives in Barcelona. and supported by the Institut of escape in Miró’s work. community it can address itself to. Ramon Llull.