2009 edition

Poster 2009, Antoni Miralda

Miralda lived in Paris during the sixties, working as a fashion photographer for Elle magazine. His first works of art were assemblages which comprised a mass of white plastic toy soldiers. In Paris he began to undertake projects which involved the ceremony of eating using color and symbolism.
He lived in New York from the seventies through to the nineties, working in public spaces and on projects concerning the edible, such as the urban Wheat & Steak project in Kansas City (1981), a metaphor for the harvest in the North-American context.
A noteworthy project was his Honeymoon Project (1986-1992), which consisted in the celebration of the imaginary wedding of the Statue of Liberty and the Monument to Christopher Columbus in Barcelona, through which he sought to explore the cultural fusion between the new and the old world with the life-size creation of the monuments of the couple’s honeymoon accoutrements. The project involved work in New York, Barcelona, Venice, Tokyo, Paris, Miami and Las Vegas and various guest artists also participated.
He created the restaurant “El Internacional” with chef Montse Guillén in the Tribeca District of New York, and later the “Big Fish Mayaimi” in Miami River.