Antoni Miralda’s first artistic incursions begin with the mandatory military service that, first through drawing, end up creating authentic interventions in the public space, with his white plastic Soldats Soldés. The artist will reside in Paris until 1971, when he leaves for New York, but not before having established a series of contacts with other Catalan artists such as Joan Rabascall and Jaume Xifra. Food and its color, with all the symbolic and social charge that surrounds it, become the nuclear element of his work, through actions carried out together with Dorothée Selz, first, and with the gourmet Montse Guillén, later, that will take the form of collective rituals and banquets. Miralda’s activity, thus, is based on ephemeral projects, which are activated thanks to the participation of people and volunteers that the artist himself recruits, to celebrate the playful and festive aspect of life. Among these, the Fest für Leda stands out, a ritual action carried out for Documenta VI in Kassel in 1977 —which had the support of the Vandrés gallery, managed by Fernando Vijande—, and of which the Fundació Suñol conserves the Leda piece. At the same time, the use of such a universal element as food allows him to break prejudices and relate different cultures, as he did with the Honeymoon Project which, spanning six years, recreated all the acts of a symbolic marriage between the Statue of Liberty in New York and the Columbus Monument in Barcelona. Since 2007, he has been involved in the FoodCultura project, an archive and platform for thinking about the relationship between gastronomy and cultural diversity.
Miralda is also an artist who has been present throughout the entire history of the Fundació Suñol. Already at the time of the inauguration of Josep Suñol’s residence in Les Escales, Miralda was in charge of designing, with the collaboration of Jaume Xifra, Antoni Muntadas and Jaume Sisa, the ceremonial act of June 10, 1976, called Situació-color . A few years later, in 1982, he prepared the opening party for Gallery 2. The reopening of the Fundació in this same space, in 2019, again included his participation, with the Cromomà gift.
The Fundació Suñol dedicated an individual exhibition to him, Camins encontrats II. Miralda. Works: 1977 and 2015, by Enric Franch, who delved into his career from the contrast of two pieces.
List of artworks
Essais d'amelioration , 1978
Sense títol , 1979
To Suñol&Vijande from Gaudí&Miralda , 1982
To Suñol&Vijande from Gaudí&Miralda , 1982
Situació Color , 1976
Situació Color, 1976 , 2009
Sense títol , 1983
Sense títol , 1983
Sense títol , 2012
Sense títol , 1979
Sense títol , 1979
Sense títol , 1979
Essais d'amelioration , 1978
Situació Color , 1976
Sense títol , 2012
Sense títol , 1979
Situació Color, 1976 , 2009
Sense títol , 1979
To Suñol&Vijande from Gaudí&Miralda , 1982
Sense títol , 1983
Sense títol , 1979
Miralda. Works: 1977 and 2015
Camins encontrats
A work made in 1977 and one in 2015 by Antoni Miralda give visibility to the relationships between the artworks, the author and other agents in the art world...
Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
In Three Acts
The third and final act goes into the great iconographic motive of art, the element that questions the chronologies and brings to this day the verisimilitude of the whole...
Joan Rabascall. Works: 1975 and 2012
Camins encontrats
Two works by Joan Rabascall made in distant moments in time dialogue with each...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
Situació Color
Loop 2011
The Fundació Suñol presents in the Nivell Zero space two historical videos from the foundation’s archives, commissioned by Josep...
Signs and Writing
Josep Suñol Collection
Collective exhibition which hosts around fifty works, all of them part of collection funds and carried out between 1972 and...
Miralda. De Gustibus Non Disputandum
2010
Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,...
FACE(S)
A project by Susoespai
FACE(S) presents a selection of works done by the people participating in the workshops of Susoespai as part of the visits to the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds...
Rosa Romero: Mira-mira
Performance
At the end of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the Fundació Suñol is organizing an artistic performance in collaboration with La Caldera les...
Per la cara!
Taller familiar
Amb motiu de l’exposició Vint rostres i tres multituds, el darrer acte del tríptic expositiu En tres actes, us proposem gaudir d'un taller per a tota la família on...
Guided tour
Walking with the River. Eva Lootz
We invite you to visit the exhibition Walking with the River by the artist Eva Lootz with the help of a member of the educational team of the Fundació...
Dialogue with Pol Guash and Valentín Romà
Online video
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, we invite the writer Pol Guasch to have a dialogue with the co-curator of the exhibition series In...
Guided tour with Valentín Roma to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the last chapter of the thryptic In Three Acts,we suggest you visit the exhibition with Valentín...
Guided tour to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
Festa Major de Les Corts
Fundació Suñol organizes a visit to the exhibtion Twenty Faces and Three Crowds conducted by the fundation’s...
Miralda and Jaume Xifra, Situació Color, 1976
Documental video of the party-ritual created by the artists Antonio Miralda and Jaume Xifra for the opening of Josep Suñol's house in...
Les Escales
In 1976 Josep Suñol moved his residence to Les Escales, an address specially designed to house his growing collection of works of...
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