Untitled - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

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Untitled – 04/842

Mieg, Juan

Vitoria-Gasteiz, 19/08/1938

Oil on canvas

180 x 220 cm

J MIEG (lower half on the left side)

1995

Last decade of the 20th century

04/842

Acquired in 2004

Later, in the '80s, his work lost the insistence on matter and texture, becoming an intensely lyrical expression of smooth, bright colours, full of stories, architectures, revelations and memories, coinciding with the artist¿s interest in the work of Jung and certain aspects of gnosiological literature, the cabbala, alchemy and lines of Oriental thought such as Tao and Zen, as is clear in Untitled from 1995, which evokes long journeys to remote places, fragile, unstable topographies and magic visions. [Javier Viar]

Selected bibliography

  • Adquisiciones 02/07 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2007. pp. 80-81, n° cat. 31.
  • Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 152-153.
  • Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 152-153, n° cat. 84c.
  • Viar, Javier. Historia del arte vasco : de la Guerra Civil a nuestros días, 1936-2016. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2017. pp. 217-218, il.
  • Después del 68 : arte y prácticas artísticas en el País Vasco, 1968-2018 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2018. p. 441.
  • Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 152-153.