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For a deeper insight: a conference led by a curator in the exhibition spaces, focusing on one or more artworks, in the presence of artists or guest speakers.
The painter Joan Mitchell sought to infuse her works with the lyrical power of poetry. Based on her painting The Great Valley VI (1984), this dialogue with Mara Hoberman of the Joan Mitchell Foundation explores the connections between painting and poetry in the artist's work.
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) grew up in a family where poetry held a central place. Her mother Marian Strobel was a poet and the editor of Poetry Magazine. As a child, she wrote her own poems and as an adult she formed close relationships with leading poets of her generation, including Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Jacques Dupin. Mitchell once said: ' “My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields…it’s more like a poem, and that’s what I want to paint.”
Using La Grande Vallée VI (1984) as an example, this dialogue will explore how Mitchell turns painting into a space where inner experience becomes landscape, focusing on her approach to color, composition, and gesture.
Leanne Sacramone
Leanne Sacramone is a French-American art historian and Senior Curator at the Fondation Cartier for Contemporary Art. She has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions including Born in the Streets: Graffiti (2009), Mœbius-Transe-Forme (2010), America Latina 1960–2013 (2013), Beauté Congo – Congo Kitoko (2015) and Sarah Sze: From Night into Day (2020).
Mara Hoberman
Mara Hoberman is a writer and art historian based in Paris. She is Senior Researcher for the Joan Mitchell Catalogue Raisonné and editor of Transatlantique: Joan Mitchell (ER Publishing, 2026). A critic for Artforum, she has also contributed essays and interviews to catalogues published by the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the Palais de Tokyo, the Swiss Institute, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Essl Museum, the Middelheim Museum and the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg.
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