Antoni Miralda

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3. The Coronation Celebration, El Internacional

Antoni Miralda (* 1942 in Terrassa near Barcelona , Catalonia ) is a Spanish - French - American object artist , photographer and video artist .

life and work

Miralda grew up in the then textile town of Terrassa in Catalonia in the 1940s. As the son of a textile designer , he also graduated from the Terrassa Faculty of Engineering .

As a reserve officer he served in the military. Inspired by tin cans in which the food was preserved , he created one of his first works, a two-meter-tall sculpture made of cans, entitled “The General”.

After his military service, he moved to Paris in 1962, where he began to draw and work in three dimensions. He initially earned his living as a photographer for fashion magazines. In 1967 the first food sculptures were created , which were made of organic material and made people think of objects from pop culture.

Between 1967 and 1971 Miralda worked with his then wife Dorothée Selz . In 1970 the couple turned a Paris gallery into a restaurant and served a dinner in four colors. In 1971 at the Paris Biennale , Rituel en quatre couleurs took place. Loaves of bread, cauliflower, corn on the cob and mountains of rice, colored in bright red, yellow, green and blue, were heaped on a large table to be served to the visitors by masked servants in monochrome costumes.

Miralda moved to New York in 1972 and worked alone for a while. Christo and Arman helped him gain a foothold in the American art world . Long before Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jennifer Rubell , Miranda developed food installations . Its events and buffets became more and more complex. He made friends with Jeanne-Claude and the Australian art collector, patron and textile merchant John Kaldor and lived with Antoni Muntadas on Broadway .

To mark the opening of a showroom in Surry Hills , a suburb of Sydney , which was designed by Australian artist Mike Kitching for Kaldor, Miralda set up a buffet called Colored feast . He took up the textures and colors of the John Kaldor textiles to fill a table with enormous dimensions in the lobby of the showroom to the edges with colored, cold dishes for three hundred people.

In 1979 Miralda became a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked on video art and documentaries . For one of his projects he started preparing meals in different restaurant kitchens.

The Honeymoon Project , a series of events and exhibitions of photographs and works of art which the symbolic wedding of New York's Statue of Liberty with the Columbus - monument have in Barcelona on the subject took place from 1986 to 1992.

Miralda lives and works in a loft in New York and in Miami, Florida. Together with his colleague and partner Montse Guillén , a well-known cook, he opened a restaurant in 1984, the tapas / bar "El Internacional" in New York's Tribeca . The "Big Fish Mayaimi" restaurant in Miami opened in 1996. Miralda worked with his team and Montse Guillén on the “Food Pavilion” at Expo 2000 . In 2001 "TransEAT" was opened in Miami and in 2002 the "Meeting Point Café" was opened. In addition, they founded the “Food Culture Museum” in Barcelona.

Exhibitions (selection)

Miralda's objects / actions were shown at documenta 6 and the 17th São Paulo Biennale in 1977 . Retrospectives took place in the CaixaForum Barcelona , the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern and at the Biennale di Venezia .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harriet Shapiro, peopleː Visions of 200-Foot Bread Walls Dance in the Head of Antoni Miralda, Who Creates Food for Thought, accessed on September 28, 2014 (English)
  2. ↑ Kaldor public art projects Miralda 1973 ( Memento from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Montse Guillén website accessed September 28, 2014 (English)
  4. ↑ Food Culturaː Food Cultura accessed on September 28, 2014 (English)
  5. ↑ Elisa Turner, Artnews: Look but don´t eat. A retrospective serves up the pioneering food art of Antoni Miralda accessed on September 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Miralda, Antoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miralda Bou, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-French-American object artist, photographer and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Terrassa Barcelona Catalonia