Joan Miró's work arrives in Japan this March with a grand retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (TMAM), organised as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Fundació Joan Miró. Joan Miró. Poetry into Painting, is organised by the Fundació Joan Miró in collaboration with the TMAM and produced by the cultural management division of The Asahi Shimbun Company, the media conglomerate. The exhibition presents a hundred works by the artist, covering his entire artistic career, from his early days in Barcelona to the end of his life, including his time in avant-garde Paris and the influences drawn from his stays in the United States and Japan.

This exhibition is curated by the Fundació Joan Miró and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The content primarily comes from the Collection of the Fundació Joan Miró, which makes the main contribution, alongside pieces from other institutions and private collections.

The exhibition includes a broad representation of almost all the techniques employed by the artist throughout his career (painting, sculpture, textiles, objects, and poster art). Of the hundred works that make up the exhibition, the Fundació Joan Miró contributes some of the most outstanding pieces by loaning particularly significant works within the artist’s trajectory. One such work is Composition avec personnages dans la forêt incendiée (Composition with figures in the burnt forest), dated 1931. This piece was one of the two Joan Miró works exhibited in Japan for the first time in 1932; its presence in this exhibition is therefore of great significance.

The inauguration event was attended by the Minister of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Sònia Hernández Almodóvar; the President of the Fundació Joan Miró, Sara Puig; the Director of the Fundació, Marko Daniel; and the Director of the Institut Ramon Llull, Pere Almeda.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 1 March to 6 July.

More information here.