English
Miró is, undoubtedly, one of the most important Spanish-born artists, not only for the art that he managed to create throughout his life but also for his way of thinking and how he expressed it in his works. Here, the exhibition ´Miró. His fight against the dictatorship´ presents no less than 113 works that go from engravings, drawings, documents, lithographies and sculptures that the Barcelona-born artist made from 1966 until 1977.
In this time Miró based his art, above all, in criticising General Franco and his dictatorship. The works of this exhibition belong to the collector Pere A. Serra, and one of the most important works is a figure in three dimensions that represents the theatre figure ´Mori el Merma´ from the group La Claca in 1977. This creation is a representation of how horrible the regime was.
´Miró. His fight against the dictatorship´ will be presented in the Picasso-Casa Natal Foundation until October 2nd, and it will be commissioned by Dolores Durán and it will be the first exhibition that will reflect Miró´s fight against Franco.
One of the most important summaries that they make is the relation between Miró and Alfred Jarry on Ubu. Ubu is a character that appears in different works of Jarry through which Miró identifies the dictator. In 1966 the Spanish artist created the first series of litographies in relation to this dictatorial figure. A book edited by Tériade called ´Ubu Roi´, possesses the text by Jarry and 13 engravings of Miró. Time after, in 1971, the second series was presented, which carried the name ´Ubu as Beléares´, where there are 23 engravings and, finally, the last book, ´L´Enfance d´Ubu´, was created in 1975 with 38 works.
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Picasso-Casa Natal Foundation: Plaza de la Merced, 13, Sevilla
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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
