Image: Ricard Mas: photo © Nati Veraguas. Enric Casasses: photo © Dani Codina / Òmnium Cultural, licence CC BY-SA 2.0
The Museu del Barroc de Catalunya in Manresa will host Miró i el Barroc (Miró and the Baroque), a public conversation on how Baroque art fed into the work of Joan Miró, on Saturday 24 October 2026 at 17:00. The discussion brings together the art historian and critic Ricard Mas and the poet Enric Casasses, and takes place in the museum's Sala del Claustre.
The museum describes Miró as one of the leading figures of twentieth-century Surrealism and abstraction. The conversation sets out to trace what the Catalan artist drew from the Baroque tradition that the Manresa museum is devoted to.
The event belongs to Miró. Art i territori (Miró: Art and Territory), a cycle of 20 conversations about the artist and his work organised by the Xarxa de Museus d'Art de Catalunya, the network of Catalan art museums, and staged at different member venues.
Ricard Mas Peinado, born in Sabadell in 1966, specialises in the historical avant-gardes and the art market. His books include Dossier Marinetti and Univers Dalí, and he has curated exhibitions including L'art de falsificar and Dalí. Una vida de llibre. He is also the curator of Persistències efímeres, currently on view at the Museu del Barroc.
Enric Casasses i Figueres, born in Barcelona in 1951, is a poet, translator and performer of poetry whom the museum describes as a singular voice in contemporary Catalan verse. His first collection, La cosa aquella (1991), received the Serra d'Or critics' prize, and he has since published more than 25 books of poems, among them No hi érem (1993), Calç (1996) and Uh (1997). He has translated Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and William Blake, and his honours include the National Culture Prize in 2012 and the Jaume Fuster prize.
Admission is free, but places are limited and must be reserved in advance.
