A collective exhibition was inaugurated on October 24, at Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, with thirty five artists who explore the performance and conceptual elements of painting, and the pictorial elements of conceptual and performance art.¡Explosion! El legado de Jackson Pollock, is a production of Moderna Museet and the Foundation, and was showcased during the summer at that museum in Stockholm.
The creators, who are members of generations from the 1940s and 1970s, witnessed the opening of art to new expressions, they stopped being exclusively painters or sculptors and became just “artists”; which entailed an approach to the language of action art (happening, performance) and conceptual art, and, on the other side, a change when it comes to appreciating painting as an object of art and representation. So, the process was what mattered when it came to analyzing the artwork, the ideas generated by art and performance aspects.
Magnus af Petersens is the curator of the exhibition, which includes from the dripping of Jackson Pollock and his appreciation of chance as creative method, to the actions carried out by Yves Klein and Gutai group, and works created by Lynda Benglis, Hermann Nitsch, Andy Warhol and Janine Antoni. The documentation of actions on video and photography play an important role in the exhibition, although it also includes painting.
¡Explosion! will remain open to the public through February 2013.
Joan Miro Foundation
Parc de Montjuïc
08038 Barcelona
www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org
Source: Press release
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