Miquel Barceló: a painter and ceramics

The Mallorcan artist, Miquel Barceló , is presenting an exhibition of ceramics at the Museum for Decorative Arts (Musée des Arts decoratifs) in Paris, with the title "Miquel Barceló: a painter and ceramics" (Miquel Barceló: Peintre et la céramique).

The exhibition is of over a hundered ceramics representative of the last five years of investigation and creation by the artist, and was opened last September 26 and can be visited until November 12, 2000.

An internationally recognised painter, Miquel Barceló has been working with ceramics since 1995. The artist's new creations are influeced by his long stays in Mali, right in the heart of Dogon, where Barceló experiments with new materials, and by the prolongation of this experience in Jeroni Ginard's traditional workshop in Artà.

This approach by Barceló can be included in the line of other painters, such as Miró and Picasso, who became interested in ceramics, opening their creativity to the third dimension and associating their investigations to the ancestral mythologies of the Arts of Fire.

Miquel Barceló already exhibited at the end of 1999 and until February of this year an exhibit of 51 ceramics at the Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani of the Juan March Foundation in Palma.

Date of publication: 28/09/2000

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