Fundació Joan Miró Showcases “Ante el horizonte”

Fundació Joan Miró presents “Ante el horizonte” (Before the Horizon), a display aimed at the representation of horizons since 19^th century to date.

The show, October 24, 2013 – February 16, 2014, has been curated by Martina Millà and sponsored by Fundación BBVA.

Ante el horizonte is an anachronistic group of painted and photographed horizons, with incursion into the worlds of sculpture, installation and land art. The show’s title and spirit refers to Devant le temps, Georges Didi-Huberman’s study on anachronism and art history. Guided by such great thinkers as Walter Benjamin, Carl Einstein and Aby Warburg, his analysis puts on the table the matter of anachronism as one of art history’s taboos in terms on academic discipline.

The exhibition deals with the representation of horizons as recurrent topic and pictorial challenge, and it is structured throughout a sequence of anachronistic conversations and dialogues that tackle different aspects of the represented horizon. The starting point is set by an introductory hall dedicated to Joan Miró, which is followed by a huge European block divided in halls on Nordic horizon, French horizon, marinas and the contrast between the expressionist horizon and the Japanese one; and comes to an end with a horizon chapel. What comes next is a second block on the 20^th century North American horizon, a final section on postcolonial horizon and the epilogue puts sums up the messages of the display and launches the question: is the horizon the place for painting, the meeting-line of pictorial activity’s challenges and paradoxes?

Source: Press release