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Galerie Gmurzynska is showcasing paintings, bronze sculptures
and mixed media pieces by Miro senior, the "most daring,
exciting, enfant terrible of the 20th century" according to the
venue's chief executive, Mathias Rastorfer.
But it was the antics of grandson and art historian Joan Punyet
Miro that took center stage at the launch celebrations on
Saturday night.
He donned bright pink garb as he drove through the Razzia
restaurant, once a silent cinema, on a revving motorcycle.
He fired a pistol loaded with blanks, danced to the Korean pop
hit "Gangnam Style" and covered a huge canvas with luminescent
paint poured over his naked body, completing the work with a
brush.
Joan Punyet Miro also payed tribute to the birth of the
avant-garde Dada movement, at a nearby venue in the city, 100
years earlier.
"That was the beginning of revolution and the provocational
spirit of Dadaism to try to make tabula rasa with everything,
because there were terrible moral and ethical bankruptcies," he
told the crowd, who also heard Miro's younger grandson, Teo
Punyet Miro, read a poem.
Miro's early works on display included drawing-collages
featuring newspaper clippings of bathers and babies, industrial
stencils and goldfish decals. Rarely seen late works included
textile assemblages from the "Sobreteixim" series.
The eclectic nature of the works, said the gallery's Rastorfer,
was a testament to Miro's fear "more than anything else, of
repeating himself".
(Editing by Michael Roddy and Andrew Heavens)
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