SILENCE​
Joan Punyet Miró

June 27(Sat) - August 1(Sat), 2026
Venue: YOD Gallery (Tennoz, Tokyo)

2F TERRADA ART COMPLEXⅡ 1-32-8 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku,Tokyo

Opening hours: 11:30-18:30

Closing date: Mondays & Tuesdays

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Opening Reception: Saturday 27 June 2026, 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm

If you would like to attend the opening reception, please RSVP via the registration button or by email at: tnz@yodgallery.com 

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YOD Gallery (Tennoz, Tokyo) is pleased to present SILENCE, a solo exhibition by Joan Punyet Miró, on view from June 27 through August 1, 2026.

An opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 27, and the artist will be present.

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Joan Punyet Miró, grandson of the renowned twentieth-century artist Joan Miró, is an artist, art historian, poet, and president of Successió Miró. Widely recognized as a spiritual heir to his grandfather’s legacy, Joan Punyet Miró has nevertheless developed a distinct artistic language of his own. Working across painting, ceramics, sculpture, eco-mobiles, and installation, he explores themes of environmental awareness, human memory, and coexistence with nature, posing poetic questions to contemporary society.

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His works incorporate driftwood, stones, reclaimed books, discarded materials, and other found objects, transforming what has been abandoned into forms endowed with new life. Burned canvases, torn supports, and monochromatic surfaces saturated in deep blue embody destruction and renewal, silence and energy simultaneously.

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In his recent Monocromías series, immersive monochromatic fields of vivid blue and red evoke the sea, the cosmos, and inner spiritual landscapes. Created through a physical engagement with canvases placed directly on the floor, these works possess the freedom and tension of jazz improvisation, renewing Joan Miró’s vision of “painting as poetry” for the present day.

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Joan Punyet Miró and YOD Gallery share a connection that reaches back to the era of his grandfather, Joan Miró.

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In 1966, Joan Miró made his first visit to Japan, accompanied by Yasuko Kotani, founder of Yodo Gallery—the predecessor of YOD Gallery—and members of the avant-garde ceramic collective Sōdeisha, on a trip to Shigaraki. One of the key figures who guided this visit was Kazuo Yagi, a leading force in postwar Japanese avant-garde ceramics.

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The encounter proved significant. Yagi subsequently began experimenting with anagama kiln firing in Shigaraki and produced a new body of work. Around the same period, fellow ceramic artist Osamu Suzuki entered the most productive phase of his celebrated Deizō series, innovative sculptural forms created from Shigaraki clay. These developments reflect a pivotal moment in which international modern art and Japan’s traditional ceramic culture converged to generate new artistic possibilities. Shigaraki became a site where global artistic ideas and local material traditions intersected, contributing significantly to the evolution of contemporary Japanese ceramics.

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Presenting an exhibition by Joan Punyet Miró today is therefore more than an introduction to an artist who inherits a distinguished lineage. Nearly sixty years after Joan Miró’s visit to Shigaraki, the spirit of that creative dialogue returns to YOD Gallery through the work of his grandson.

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The exhibition title, SILENCE, refers to a quiet space for listening—to nature, memory, and the inner voice of the self—amid the accelerating pace of information and consumption that defines contemporary life.

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Centered on works from the Monocromías series, the exhibition also includes sculptures made from natural materials, texts, and installations that create a space where nature and humanity, memory and future, intersect.

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Joan Punyet Miró’s works offer more than a visual experience; they invite us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world and reconnect with fundamental sensations of being alive.We warmly invite you to experience this exhibition.