Rosa Maria Malet i Ybern (born 1948) is an art historian who directed the

Fundació Joan Miró The Fundació Joan Miró ( ; "Joan Miró Foundation, Centre of Studies of Contemporary Art") is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). History The idea for the foundation w ...

in Barcelona from 1980 until she retired in 2017.

Biography

She was born in

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. In 1975 she graduated in Philosophy and Letters, specializing in Art History at the

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. She discovered the work of

Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , , ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona i ...

in 1968, during the exhibition of his work that took place at the

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in Barcelona. She began working at the Fundació Joan Miró in the same year of its creation, in 1975, as a curator's assistant, and shortly afterwards as curator. She registered the works of the Foundation's funds. At Joan Miró's house, she worked on the arrangement and registration of the collection of graphic works that the artist had intended for his heirs. In 1980 she became the Director of the Foundation. In 2016, she was awarded for her professional career by the Association of Museologists of Catalonia. She is a member of the ADOM Committee (''Association pour la Défense de l'Oeuvre de Miró'') and, as such, responsible for issuing certificates of authenticity for Miró's graphic work. Her work at the head of the Joan Miró Foundation was recognized in March 2017 by the French government, which awarded her with the insignia of

Knight of the National Order of Merit A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...

, one of the most important distinctions granted in France to people of anywhere in the world that have stood out for their work in any field. In the case of Malet, this recognition was granted to him for her work in favour of contemporary art and the dissemination of the French language and culture. In 2018 she received the

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from the Catalan Government "as dean in the direction of the Barcelona museums".

Publications

* ''Joan Miró'', Edicions Polígrafa, Barcelona (1983). Reedició 2003. * ''Obra de Joan Miró'', Editor Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1988) * ''Joan Miró. Una biografia'', Col·lecció Pere Vergés de biografies, Edicions 62, Barcelona (1992) * ''Joan Miró. Apunts d'una col·lecció'' (K. AG Gallery works), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2003) * ''Joan Miró. Au-delà de la peinture'', Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght éditeur, Saint-Paul de Vence (2019)

Exhibits

She has organized several exhibitions on

, among others: * J''oan Miró. 1893-1993''. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1993) * ''Miró en escena'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1994-95) * ''Joan Miró: equilibri a l'espai'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1997) * ''Joan Miró. Sentiment, emoció, gest'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2006-07) As well as exhibitions related to contemporary art, among others: * ''

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1984) * ''

Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the ...

. L’aventura d’Ícar'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1997) * ''

Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Latv ...

'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2001) * ''Vermell apart. Art contemporani xinès'', Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2008)

References

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