Miró's Mosaic at Pla de l'Os

In the center of Pla de l’Os is the drawing by Joan Miró made up of more than six thousand pieces in hydraulic tile pavement made with a mixture of white cement stained with crushed colored glasses. The ceramic pieces were made by the artist Llorens Artigues, a regular collaborator of Joan Miró, and his son Joan Gardy-Artigas. The pieces measure 10 by 10 centimeters.

The mosaic has the circular shape of the cosmos. Its elemental colors, yellow, blue, and red, as well as the simple forms, speak of Joan Miró's own language. An intuitive language that recovers the purity of the world of childhood.

When in 1968 Joan Miró accepted the commission for a mural for the new terminal of the Barcelona airport, he promised to give the city three works that would welcome people arriving in Barcelona by land, sea, and air. The Board of Friends of La Rambla asked Joan Miró for a work specifically made for Pla de l'Os and Joan Miró accepted the commission and gave us one of the symbols of La Rambla.

The airport mural, inaugurated in 1968, welcomes those arriving by air, the sculpture "Dona i Ocell," inaugurated in 1982, welcomes those arriving by land, and the Pla de l'Os mosaic welcomes those arriving by sea.

On December 23, 1976, the mayor of Barcelona, José María Socías Humbert, inaugurated the mosaic. All the members of the board of Friends of La Rambla led by its president, Amadeu Bagués, participated in the inauguration.

The mosaic is stepped on every day by thousands of passersby, causing the wear and tear of the pieces, which often have to be replaced.