The Pablo Picasso Graphik Museum of Münster in Germany celebrates its 10th anniversary, with many events including one important traditional exposition about the Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) from March 5 to June 6, 2010.

With a hundred works (9 paintings, 21 sculptures, 20 drawings, 1 tapestry, 45 engravings, 1 makemono, 4 parchments, 3 books of bibliophilism…), coming all from the Maeght Collection in Paris, La Couleur de ses Rêves puts at the foreground the central role, in the work of this Catalan artist, of the experimentation with various materials.

This tendency for experimentations is noticed particularly in the ceramics and the bronzes exposed in Münster. Miró often employed, for his work, meaningless objects collected during walks, combined with other objects coming from the consumer society, like toys, spoons, nails, cases, chairs…

The title of this exhibition, the Color of its Dreams, refers to a Miró painting from1925 in which the artist revealed the importance of the dream in the creation of his images: " I never dream, I sleep like a log. But I always dream when I am awake". With these words, Miró expresses how much his art is controlled by the subconscious: " when I begin an image I obeyed to an internal impulse that I feel physically, as if something needed to leave my body."

Three paintings from 1914 to 1917 gives us the opportunity to rediscover Miró s Cubism and his Fauvisme features . Some work from the Twenties and Thirties is the proof that Parisian Surrealism expressed later, an important influence on Miró s creations. A three meters tapestry from 1973 brings back for us the artistic roots of Catalan popular art.

> Reach the Miro editions on the Maeght shop Maeght gallery