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Fundació Miró
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The Fundació Miró (Miro Foundation)
was a gift from the artist Joan Mirķ to his native city and is
one of Barcelona's most exciting showcases of contemporary art.
The white building, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, was opened in
1975; an extension was added by Sert's pupil Jaume Freixa in 1988.
Mirķ's unmistakably playful and colorful style, filled with Mediterranean
light and humor, seems a perfect match for its surroundings. Look
for Alexander Calder's mercury fountain. Mirķ himself rests in
the cemetery on Montjuīc's southern slopes. When he died in 1983,
the Catalans gave him a send-off amounting to a state funeral.
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