On one of the exterior façades of Terminal 2 at Barcelona Airport, a vast ceramic mural by Joan Miró greets travellers. Created by Joan Miró in 1970, it stretches 50 metres and comprises nearly 5,000 ceramic pieces in vivid primary colours. Stars, moons and birds dance across the surface in abstract form, as if extending a welcome in a language that needs no translation. It represents nothing specific, yet evokes everything – a greeting that is felt as much as it is seen.
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Miró’s visual language presents a horizon without labels – just symbols and colour, like dreams before they are named.
