- Miralda, Antoni (1942- )
- Antoni Miralda was born in Terrassa (Barcelona) in 1942. After 2 years in Paris and 2 in London, he settled in the French capital in 1966 until 1972, when he moved to New York. He currently lives between Miami and Barcelona. In the 1970s together with the so-called ‘Parisian Catalans’ (Joan Rabascall, Jaume Xifra, Benet Rossell and Dorothée Selz), he performed a series of happenings or collective rituals regarding food ceremonialism using colour and its symbolism. Firstly in collaboration with Dorothée Selz, and since 1972 with the restaurant owner and gastronome Montse Guillén, he made food the object of his artistic work.
Over the years he has developed large installations using a Baroque kitsch festive and non-conformist language that brings art and life closer together. In notable works like the ‘Honeymoon Project’, a symbolic link between the statue of Christopher Columbus in Barcelona and the Statue of Liberty in New York, he uses a universal activity like food to deconstruct prejudices in an already global world. Many of his works encourage collective participation, play and party.
His gastronomic ethnology has meant extensive worldwide recognition. Since 2000 Miralda has focused on the FoodCultureMuseum, an archive of multiple projects on research and reflection on gastronomic diversity and its link to the planet’s cultures. From his headquarters in Miami and Barcelona he explores and spreads the culture of food through audiovisual media, music, books, objects and all sorts of documents.
- In ArtxiboAZ
