Joan Miró's art on display in the Marche region.

The lithographs of the great Catalan painter Joan Miró arrive on display in the Marche region: in Recanati, at Villa Colloredo Mels, the Miró exhibition is on stage. Le lézard aux plumes d’or, which from July 15 to October 1, 2017 will let the public discover the series of color lithographs entitled Le lézard aux plumes d’or (“The Lizard with the Golden Feathers”), created in 1971. It is one of the artist’s most important graphic works, intended to illustrate the chirograph poem of the same name conceived by the artist himself, who wanted to create an original synthesis of poetry and images. The first lithographs were made in 1967 for the publisher Louis Broder, but due to some problems in the printing process Miró had to recreate the matrices and the work was delayed to be completed, precisely, in 1971. The lithographs, we read in curator Sebastiano Guerrera’s presentation, "become the place where the writing-sign is determined and transfigured, in all its linear concreteness, into the image-sign. In the plates of Le lézard aux plumes d’or image and word originate from the indistinct impulse and interpenetrate until they become a single transmission of intimate energy, the permanent imprint of existence. If image-sign reveals the deeper aspects of life, laying bare primal restlessness and ancestral stillness, writing-sign is the direct transcription of that inner dynamism we call poetry. It is clear that we are in a fairy-tale context."

Miró’s poetry, which starts from Surrealist automatisms and shows affinities with the typical researches of the Dada movement, finds precisely in this fairy-tale dimension, aimed at highlighting the close relationship between man and nature, its originality: Argan wrote that “his genre is the fable, which recalls and addresses itself while still addressing a childhood, the eternal condition of man’s childhood.” And again, continues Sebastiano Guerrera: “Everything here is deep and playful, brilliant and casual, just as suggestive and elusive is that halo of secret that unravels from Miró’s image-sign.” The Catalan artist was an outstanding graphic designer, so much so that in 1954 he earned the International Grand Prize for Graphics at the Venice Biennale.

The exhibition is organized by Sistema Museo and promoted by the City of Recanati. Hours: daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. (Fridays until 11 p.m.). From September 1: closed on Mondays. Tickets: full price single Recanati Musei (thus valid for all museums in the city: Musei Civici di Villa Colloredo Mels, Museo dell’Emigrazione Marchigiana, Museo Beniamino Gigli, Torre del Borgo), 10 euros. Reduced 8 euros for groups of at least 15 people, FAI card holders, Touring Club members, Italia Nostra, Coop, Alleanza 3.0, Adriatica, Bordest, Estense. Reduced 5 euros for groups accompanied by licensed tour guide and for school groups of 15 to 25 students. Free for children up to 19 years old, Icom members, journalists of the Order, disabled with accompanying person. Reduced 3 euros with Recanati Card for residents and members of Campus l’Infinito. Info: www.infinitorecanati.it, phone 0744 422848 (Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., excluding holidays), email callcenter@sistemamuseo.it. Hashtag of the exhibition: #MiroRecanati

Joan Miró's art on display in the Marche region.

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