Interactive Exhibition
La pintura. We are colour

Family finissage: Sunday 7 May 2023 at 15:00 with presentation of the final film, sharing of the collective work among all visitors and Spanish sweets.

The Spanish-Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) said at the age of 82: "It is the young people who interest me[...]. If I continue to work, it will be for the year 2000 and the people of tomorrow". 50 years later, the Interactive Exhibition at the Creaviva Children's Museum invites all young and young-at-heart to explore painting in Miró's footsteps.

In his late work, Joan Miró strove to reduce his art. The canvases became larger, the brushstrokes fewer, yet no less precise and determined. For the duration of the interactive exhibition, the Creaviva's loft will be the largest painting studio in Bern, open to all visitors. All guests, young and old, are invited to wander through Joan Miró's worlds of colour and form and to leave their own traces in the exhibition with various painting tools and to shape them.

The interactive pictorial landscape is framed in the room by black lines made of thick ropes. Slipping into slippers and painting aprons, the visitors enter the world of Joan Miró's strong colours and expressive forms and enter the painting studio. Following his footsteps, they create on various spacious surfaces. Every day, a new colour is ready in pots, waiting to be applied to the painting surfaces with a variety of tools and brushes. The window front, covered with colour foil, immerses the spacious studio in different moods, encouraging all visitors to complement the incoming light with a shadow play of their own figures and forms.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, the large painting studio in the Creaviva will be photographed at rhythmic intervals from a bird's eye view. The film created from these composite images will celebrate its premiere at the finissage and will be presented to all those present. Equipped with a screwdriver and saw, all visitors to the family finissage are invited to cut out their own personal piece of the collective work and take it home with them.

Concept:
Sinja Bertschi, Jasmin Bigler, Lorenz Fischer, Katja Lang

Thanks:
The Creaviva would like to thank the Förderfonds der Berner Kantonalbank BEKB for the valuable support.