Mirós are in the Fundação de Serralves – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

The announcement was made by Rui Moreira this afternoon at the official inauguration of the exhibition of the paintings of the Spanish painter in the Serralves Foundation, the works are on permanent display in the Foundation.

The mayor of the Port announced this afternoon that the collection of the paintings of Catalan artist is in the House of Serralves, in that foundation. Is thus broken and the mystery surrounding the final destination of the 86 paintings of the artist, from the collection of low birth weight.

Rui Moreira assumed that this was always the solution thought-out, which had the agreement of Serralves and the Government. This will not have financial burden for the Government, she stressed.

The official inauguration of the exhibition took place this Friday with the first minister António Costa emphasized in his speech that “the Port will gain a collection but the collection gains so much with the delivery to the municipality of Porto”.

Already the president of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, welcomed “the capital of freedom and cultural creativity which is the Port” and the government’s decision to install definitely the collection of Joan Miró in the city.

Curated by Robert Lofthouse Messeri, with the project of Álvaro Siza Vieira, the exhibition Joan Miró: the Materiality and Metamorphosis brings together almost all of the works of the collection of Miró in the possession of the State from the low birth weight and runs along the ground floor and the first floor of the House of Serralves until January 28.

The architect Siza Vieira should now work with the space of the Casa de Serralves to receive the permanent exhibition with all the works (the exhibition now opened does not include all the frames), said Rui Moreira.

The show covers a period of six decades of the artist’s career with the Catalan – 1924 to 1981 – and focuses in particular on the transformation of the languages of painting that the artist Catalan worked, addressing also its metamorphoses art in the fields of painting, drawing, collage, and works in tapestry.

On the set of the show – with the design architecture of Álvaro Siza Vieira, are included six paintings on masonite, 1936, and also six sobreteixims (wall hangings) of 1973.

after nearly three years of the announcement of the sale in an international auction, 80 of the 85 works of the so-called collection Joan Miró (1893-1983), from the ex-Portuguese Bank of Business are for the first time publicly exposed. This week the prime minister, António Costa reiterated that the collection would be in Portugal, in the city of Porto – idea, already passed by the Minister of Culture, Luís Castro Mendes. Was left to know where. The doubt was now undone.