Joan Miró retrospective at Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Parma

The Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Mamiano di Traversetolo, near Parma, is hosting a major exhibition of Joan Miró (1893–1983), organized in collaboration with the Fundación MAPFRE of Madrid. The show focuses on oil-on-canvas works that trace Miró's lifelong challenge to traditional painting, his drive toward abstraction, and his inspirations from poetry and music. Curator Stefano Roffi highlights Miró's radical break with conventional language, comparing his approach to American Expressionism in its continuous creative explosion. The exhibition draws a parallel between Miró and Luigi Magnani, the foundation's founder, both sharing a deep passion for the arts. Miró's style evolved from Fauvism and Cubism to Surrealism, freeing his art from rational constraints and embracing spontaneity, essential forms, and strong colors. His work retains references to popular tradition, Asian script, and urban graffiti, with recurring symbols like stars, birds, women, and heads. Despite strong abstraction, his pieces always contain a nod to reality—an eye, the moon, a hand—transfigured through dreams. The exhibition runs at the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca.