Miró's Poetic Illustrations on View in Leopardi's Hometown

In Recanati, the birthplace of poet Giacomo Leopardi, the Museo Colloredo Mels is hosting 'Miró – Le lézard aux plumes d'or', an exhibition exploring Joan Miró's deep connection to poetry. The Catalan painter befriended major 20th-century poets and illustrated their verses, developing a personal language of enigmatic hieroglyphs that Raymond Queneau dubbed 'miroglifici'. The show centers on the poem 'Le lézard aux plumes d'or', illustrated with color lithographs that create a short circuit between writing and painting, where sign becomes image and vice versa. This is the first event of the new 'Infinito Recanati' project, leveraging the city's strong identity linked to art, poetry, and music. The exhibition represents the complete fusion of image and poetic text by Miró, in a balanced coexistence of graphic and pictorial language.