In The Light of the Night, the book the exhibition borrows its title from, the great essayist Pietro Citati discusses some of the great myths in world history. Citati describes how many ancient authors from different cultures referred to a swift and lambent light, the light of the night, that inflames men’s souls in a flash of blessedness; precisely in this moment men believe they accede to divine things.
Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma de Mallorca, 1983), who was described by his friend Sir Roland Penrose as the 'Lord of the Night', created an unforgettable visual mythology of his own, in which the main characters are the night, visions and dreams, stars and constellations. His oeuvre is deeply spiritual and revolutionary in formal terms, and was key, for instance, in the development of 1950s American painting (Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, etc.).
This exhibition shows around forty works produced in the 1960s and 1970, among which rarely seen paintings, a large-format tapestry and a large group of bronze sculptures, in which Miró explores the evocative power of objects.
