Explosion! The legacy of Jackson Pollock

The Fundación Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain) will host Explosion! The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, an exhibition that explores the web of influences and connections that emerged from “action painting” and the work of its main exponent, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956).

From the late 1940s, the notion of painting as action opened up an enormous field of possibilities that resulted in performance art and in the innovative arts practices known as Conceptual Art. Many of these artists came to place as much importance on the creative act as on the finished painting. In this border zone between painting and performance, the element of chance and the spectator often ended up being co-creators of the work. This experimental, conceptual approach to painting and art later inspired many other artists.

The exhibition offers a geographic and chronological overview of the scope of the phenomenon. It includes works in a variety of media by artists working in the period from the late forties to the present, including Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Allan Kaprow, Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis, Murakami, Bruce Nauman, John Baldessari, Paul McCarthy, and Francis Alÿs, among others.

Dates: from October 24 to February 24.
Location: Fundación Joan Miró. Parc de Montjuïc s/n 08038 Barcelona. Spain.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 7pm (from October to June).

See some artworks of the exhibition here: