PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN.- Aurelio Torrente, the director of the Miró Foundation of Palma de Mallorca has declared to ABC newspaper that " the reason given by the City Council to justify my stepping down seems comical".  Aurelio Torrent maintains "optimal relations" with the Miró family and he is sure that they will remove the works given to the Foundation "if my contract is not renewed". He also stated that the people from the City Council in charge of the foundation hardly identify themselves with the artist’s spirit.

The Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Foundation was formed in 1981, the year in which Joan Miró and his wife Pilar Juncosa donated the four workshops in which the artist had carried out his creative work from 1956, when he settled permanently on the Island - and where he remained until his death in 1983 - as well as the large number of works they contained. Faced with this possibility, the painter decided that the ideal legal arrangement, would be to donate part of his patrimony to the Palma City Council, in such a way that the people of Mallorca would be the first to benefit from such an important donation. In 1981, the Palma City Council approved the formation of the Fundació Pública Municipal Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca as a living and dynamic cultural center and drew up the charter that would govern it in the future. In 1986, five years after the Foundation was established, and three after the death of Joan Miró, Pilar Juncosa, Miró’s widow, announced her donation of the property as the perfect location for the foundation, as well as her wish to cooperate financially. Rafael Moneo, the well-known architect, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, at that time, was commissioned to design and plan the new headquarters for the Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Foundation. The inauguration of the new Foundation building in December 1992 marked the public opening of the Foundation in Palma.

The Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation a Mallorca endeavors to be a real cultural and artistic center, to introduce it to a wider, international public, and in keeping with the spirit of its Founder, to be open to the most advanced concepts and ideas in contemporary art. A meeting point for writers, artists and musicians to exchange ideas and work together. An appropriate place for reflection and creation. An effective platform for cultural diffusion and understanding of modernity.  In short, a special, and incomparable place to discover the intimate world of Miró, and the revelation of his essential spirit and thought.