The Miró Foundation Mallorca connects New York and Palma in the international Live for the Arts cycle.

The Fundació Miró Mallorca is participating in the fourth edition of the international cultural series Live for the Arts (LFTA) in New York, with a lecture by the Foundation’s curator and head of the Art and Research Department, Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini. The event, organized by INNSiDE by Meliá and the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM), takes place at the INNSiDE New York Nomad hotel and brings together some of the most relevant creators from the Mallorcan art scene.

Under the title “A punch in the chest”, Juncosa’s lecture offers a deep look into the relationship between Joan Miró and architect Josep Lluís Sert, exploring how the city of New York and the island of Mallorca become two key points in Miró’s life and artistic trajectory. The lecture will be accompanied by a screening of the audiovisual Je rêve d’un grand atelier (2018) by Cesc Mulet, produced by La Perifèrica.

This transatlantic dialogue highlights how monumentality and public space, so present in Miró’s mural work, emerge from a moment of profound personal transformation: his stay in New York in 1947. A city that, as he described it, was “a punch to the chest” for its energy and scale, and that would mark a before and after in his artistic approach.

During this period, encounters with Sert, first in Paris and later in the cafés of Greenwich Village, solidified a creative rapport that would translate into joint architectural and artistic projects, such as the Sert Workshop in Mallorca, a purpose-built space to continue working on large-scale formats. This studio, today preserved just as the artist left it, remains a living testament to his ideas, processes, and aspirations.

The presence of the Fundació Miró Mallorca at Live for the Arts aligns with its mission to preserve, research, and disseminate Joan Miró’s legacy, while reinforcing its international commitment to building bridges between cultures and territories through art and contemporary thought.

This cultural event in New York, which is part of a series that has previously taken place in Berlin, Liverpool, and Leipzig, aims to showcase the artistic and literary creation of the Balearic Islands in a global context. The program also includes names such as writer Joana Marcús, artists Albert Pinya and Patricia Bolaños, and gastronomic and musical offerings that celebrate the richness of contemporary Mallorcan culture.

The event is supported by the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation a Mallorca, the cultural embassy of Spain in Washington.

“I saw Broadway come to a new life and take a new meaning, as reflected one night in the joyful eyes of Joan Miró. The lights, colors, and moving signs were for him part of a new world of unlimited possibilities.”

Josep Lluís Sert. “Joan Miró. Painting for Vast Spaces” (1961)