Coming to the MIC in Faenza, Italy, the major Italian anthology of Miquel Barceló

The ceramic production of Spanish artist Miquel Barceló will be the protagonist at the MIC - Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza : the exhibition Miquel Barceló. Time is a river that drags me, and I am the river, which can be visited from June 1 to October 6, 2019, has been announced as the first real Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to the ceramic production of the famous artist and as a unique exhibition on the last thirty years of his activity.

Barceló’s works will be placed in dialogue with the ceramics housed in the Faenza museum and, for this occasion, the artist will create aninstallation especially for the MIC. His earliest works in clay, made in the late 1990s, will be featured, and through other selected masterpieces will lead to ceramics made in the present.
In addition, some key works from the museum’s permanent collection will be chosen by the artist to provide visitors with an autobiographical narrative, in which the private element is linked to history.

Miquel Barceló is a multifaceted artist capable of combining different artistic languages and is known in particular for his gestural pictorial research and proximity to the Italian Transavanguardia group and the German neo-expressionists. In the mid-1990s, during his many stays in Mali, he began to approach ceramics and made his first terracottas using the ancient Dogon technique. Back in Mallorca, he resumed ceramic production, where he still creates his work today.

The link with Italy is a constant in his research, from his first trips in the late 1970s to his stay in Campania at the invitation of Lucio Amelio for the organization of the great exhibition Terraemotus. In Italy, and especially in Vietri, the artist returned at the beginning of 2000 when with Vincenzo Santoriello he created the monumental covering for the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca: a chapel totally covered in ceramics, one of the largest artistic interventions in the world made with this material.
The artist also exhibited his ceramics in Italy in 2009, in the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in a dialogue between painting and ceramic sculpture.

For info: www.micfaenza.org

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed on non-holiday Mondays.

Image: Miquel Barceló, 7 peixos, pans i cap de boc (2003; terracotta and glazes, 128 x 212 x 15 cm) Ph.Credit © André Morin

Coming to the MIC in Faenza, Italy, the major Italian anthology of Miquel Barceló

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