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[1] The COAC commissioned the architectural firm Studio PER (Pep Bonet Cristian Cirici, Lluís Clotet and Oscar Tusquets) to do the script and prepare the exhibition.

[...] The partners from Studio PER[...], we had just 27 years and received a statement from the College of Architects of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, commissioned to write the script and the start an exhibit -one that we called Orim (Miró written from right to left) - in the retrospective exhibition organized by the City Council as part of the old Gothic Hospital de la Santa Cruz.

To report the manipulation made by the regime during the Year, Miró declared by the Ministry of Information and Tourism in 1969 (murals everywhere, they wanted to appoint him as a member of the Academy ...The curators of the exhibition, members of Studio PER, asked Joan Miró to do an art intervention for the exhibition at the headquarters of COAC, and he turned with enthusiasm, starting with the idea of painting a mural over all the windows of the ground floor of COAC Barcelona.

[7] The work was ephemeral because after the exhibition, the artist, possibly at the instigation of the director Pere Portabella,[8] with the cooperation of the people present at the event and a cleaning woman used solvent to wipe out the image as an act of counterculture.

Of all the project, there is no doubt that the most provocative was the part that disappeared: College crystals painted by Miró, Picasso under the frieze and facing the cathedral.

Because what the graffiti of crystals, based on broom and trays or bowls of paint hostesses on a simulation silly ironic Picasso drawings so far, this, alas, of such childish, ridiculous show has too much of Dalí - as contrast, during a lifetime, the spirit of looked-for to be taken seriously.

On the day of the destruction of the work, the critic José María Moreno Galván, tried to dissuade the painter of an act that he thought wrong.

[12] Moreno Galván is opposed to destruction in an article in the magazine Triunfo: The spectacle of Joan Miró destroying the artwork that he created with his own hands, I would not like to see it anymore ...

The writer and art critic Alexandre Cirici, for example, praised the action as "radical": For many visitors have been a surprise the appearance of a militant Miro on historical moments.

For many people, the impact has been happening, both environment and participation of large mural prepared team, where the graphics of the four authors of the exhibition architects went into the final composition made by Miró with a soaked black broom.

A work that defies good manners, financial speculation, the idea of the legendary artist as a priest, and that is an image of street violence.

It is a radical break with the established value system.Other proponents of the act of destruction that were delivered at the time, included: Llorens Artigas, Joan Perucho, Oscar Tusquets and Miquel Gaspar.