PARIS.- The magnificent exhibition on the work of Spanish artist Joan Miró (1917-1934) opens to the public today at the Centre Pompidou, on view until June 28, 2004. This exhibition will focus on the complexity of the work of Miró between 1920 and 1930, years of intense production and exuberant invention in the visual arts field. The show includes an exceptional display of some 100 paintings matched by the same number of collages, constructions and inventions of all sorts. This is an excellent opportunity for the public to discover masterpieces, some shown for the first time, many of which have long since left European shores.

The monographic exhibition ’The Birth of the World’ about the "most absolute and enigmatic" creations of the artist in Paris shows at the Pompidou Center works from the most vanguard artistic phase of Joan Miró, from 1917 to 1934, a sample baptized with the title of one of his master works, ’The Birth of the World’. The National Museum of Modern Art of Beaubourg has dedicated an "unprecedented show" to gather some of the creations of one of the most important “inventors of forms of the XX century", explained those responsible for the exhibition at the center. The exhibition follows a chronological order in with the intent of reflecting "the incessant ideas, geographical and conceptual" of young Miró as he elaborated his complex artistic language, explained the curator of the show, Agnes of the Beaumelle. "Thanks to that permanent duality that nurtured one and the other", Miró was impregnated by the "literary, intellectual, and political agitation of Paris" and, at the same time, found his equilibrium and his roots, in his homeland, emphasized the curator.