Joan Miró was a prolific graffiti artist who covered the walls of one studio with ideas for new works. These sketches “show how he thought”, says the Spanish artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, who is organising a show in London about his grandfather’s studio life in collaboration with the Galería Mayoral in Barcelona.
The show aims to evoke the atmosphere of Miró’s working spaces in Mallorca, including one designed in the late 1950s in a Modernist style by the late artist’s friend, the Spanish architect Josep Lluís Sert. Another historic building nearby became Miró’s second studio and its walls are the ones still covered by the artist’s working drawings.
The exhibition is one of numerous Miró shows worldwide. “One opened in Brazil, another in Switzerland, and there will be one in Barcelona,” Punyet Miró tells us. Another opens at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in 2016. Meanwhile, last month the Mallorca-based Successió Miró, which manages the artist’s estate, published volume five of the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s drawings.
• Miro’s Studio, 6 Duke Street, London, 20 January-12 February 2016; Joan Miró: Painting Walls, Painting Worlds, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 26 February-12 June 2016