The Café was inaugurated in 2015 with the fantastic ‘Souvenir de la Torre Eiffel’ and the ‘Serie Mallorca’ was exhibited in Sa Tafona art gallery. So I personally salute the permanent Miró exhibition in Café Miró at Deià’s Belmond La Residencia for inviting us to look at the artist and his work with fresh eyes. He inspired Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell as well as the British St Ives school, especially the remarkable Roger Hilton. Outside of Spain, Miró is respected as an avant-garde artist. Miro was given to continuous experimentation and working in multiple media, from ceramics to bronze installations. But his art shouldn’t be regarded as frozen in time or blithely reduced to a graphic approach. There’s even a Miró hotel in Cala Major, a touristic suburb of Palma near the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró that uses his signature whorls to particularly eye-watering effect, reproducing them in red neon on its façade and on corridor carpets you wouldn’t want to walk on if you’d had a few glasses of wine.įair enough, Miró’s colours are simple, bold and expressive and lend themselves to the Mediterranean environment. His distinctive biomorphic forms and geometric shapes are everywhere, reproduced or hijacked to inspire brand identities. When you live on the island it’s easy to become blasé about Miró. In some places, it still feels as fresh as if the world had just been created’. He loved Mallorca, describing it as ‘a truly beautiful island. His mother was Mallorquin, as was his wife Pilar.
Miró, Miró on the café wall September 17, 2016
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