"Joan Miró, the escala de l’evasió", the most ambitious exhibition ever made in Spain on the master of abstraction, at the Joan Miró Foundation until 18 March 2012, is the best pretext for planning a winter weekend in Barcelona. But not the only one. Because from 27 January to 5 February, after the great success of last year, the Barcelona Opportunity Week returns, that is, a week full of opportunities, between discounts and promotions in shops, restaurants, cultural sites and hotels, which coincides with winter sales.
In short, an opportunity not to miss for shopping addicted, much more than many of the offers proposed are for beneficial purposes: in practice, a part of the proceeds will be devolved in support of a good cause.
And between one purchase and the other, there is all the time to visit Barcelona, starting obviously from the great exhibition on Joan Mirò, which traces about 60 years of the life of the surrealist artist and brings together 170 works from public and private collections all over the world. Among them, among the most significant: "The farm" (1921-1922), the series "Faith of Catalan Peasant" (1924-1925), the "Natura morti con Sue Vecchia" (1937) and the series of sculptures "Sua majesty" (1974).
Works that reveal Miró's close link with his native Catalonia and the life of the painter during the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the last years of Francoism and the late 1960s revolts. And for those who want to know more about the artist and his art, the Joan Miró app was created. The ladder of Escape with images, comments and biographic videos, free download from the Apple Store.
