The last decades of his tenacious work insist on his complex world of seemingly whimsical geometric shapes, that appear before the viewer in countless silhouettes (repeated in similar series in their forms or, if the same in these, altered in their colour to modify the perception of those), and full colours exceptionally daring. Weird cutouts in vibrant shades, hardly used by other creators, configure the peculiar and, yet extremely coherent world of Miura.
The exhibition, which occupies the two spaces on Blanca de Navarra St., will be modified in its presentation throughout its duration, since the assembly of the fabrics will alternate two installations ("My files I and II", grouped under the title "My files 2021") created this year to take up - with the subtle characteristic of artist installations - the space of Blanca de Navarra 9. Twenty-two oblong elements of different sizes are rigorously arranged in the gallery space, insisting on the identification of rounded shapes or curves of soft or almost pastel colours, with which the artist identifies memory (his memory of himself) with storage or file of this in our memory; as we already saw in his famous "Imagined memories", an installation at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Palacio de Cristal, March 14 - September 2013).
Mitsuo Miura. Dos tiempos, Galería Cayón, Madrid, 2021.
Mitsuo Miura. Dos tiempos, Galería Cayón, Madrid, 2021.
Mitsuo Miura. Dos tiempos, Galería Cayón, Madrid, 2021.
Mitsuo Miura. Dos tiempos, Galería Cayón, Madrid, 2021.
Mitsuo Miura. Mis Archivos, Galería Cayón, Madrid, 2021.
Mitsuo Miura. Mis Archivos, Galería Cayón, Madrid, 2021.
Mitsuo Miura was born in Iwate, Japan (1946). In 1966 he moved to Spain where he performed, in the 70s, a work close to abstract expressionism, but with a personal touch that has to do with its continent of origin. Since the 80s his work has been transformed and in his multidisciplinary work will be geometric shapes (in many cases close to nature) and strong colours (but not strident) which become the protagonists.
His work is well-represented in the main Spanish collections, among which stand out the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Juan March Foundation, Madrid; Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas;La Caixa Collection, Barcelona; Collection Bank of Spain, Madrid; ARTIUM, Álava and Telefónica Collection, Madrid; Dos de Mayo Art Center, Madrid or the Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres.
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Créditos:
Cortesía Mitsuo Miura y Galería Cayón Madrid/Manila/Menorca, 2021.
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