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Antoni Tàpies
Footmarks and handprints, sand, wood, earth, rope, words and letters: Tapies, repertoire is infinite. Miro encouraged him to use forms and materials of every kind, all the more so in an environment devoid of meaning-Spain in the post-war years-in which official reality bore no relation to the situation as it really was. Imperceptibly, true reality asserted its pre-eminence and the expressiveness of increasingly organic materials, endowing his painting with greater materiality than signification. 130 illustrations
Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography
An extensive survey of Antoni Tàpies' work, revisiting the period the Catalan artist lived under Franco's dictatorship, between 1946 and 1977. In works that occupy a unique midground between painting and sculpture, Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) fused the material vocabulary of Arte Povera and the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionism with the mystical sensibility of Iberian Catholicism. Tàpies showed a preference for an austere palate and unconventional materials reflecting the limited resources of his political environment. He spent three decades of his long productive career in Barcelona, where he lived and died, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. In that time, T...
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Collected Essays
In this insightful collection, one of Spain's most influential artists, Antoni Tàpies, reflects on art, life, and politics. A companion to A Personal Memoir (2010), this volume includes essays published in Catalan in six separate books between 1970 and 1999 (The Practice of Art, Art against Aesthetic, Reality as Art, For a Modern and Progressive Art, The Value of Art, Art and Its Places) together with previously uncollected articles, lectures, and other texts. In these essays Tàpies reflects on the social role of art and the artist, discusses the influences on his art, and describes his political and artistic views.
Antoni Tàpies
With a distinguished career stretching back to the 1940s, Barcelona-born surrealist painter Antoni Tapies is one Spain's most renowned artists, considered a peer of Dali, Miro and even Picasso. This beautifully produced retrospective catalog gathers work from his entire career, and a top-flight group of curators and critics contribute texts which re-interpret his importance in contemporary terms. Included in the collections of the world's most influential museums (such as MoMA NY, the Reina Sophia and Dia:Beacon). He layers the texture of his paintings with sand, cement and marble dust, and incorporates found objects such as clothes or items of everyday use. The artist himself assisted with this life-spanning exhibition; this oversized volume is April 2012, English & German an essential reference for one of the masters of 20th-century painting.
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Catalog of an exhibition held at PaceWildenstein, Apr. 21-June 3, 2006.
The Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
"The aim of this book is to help make the work of Antoni Tapies more widely known through the study of the collection housed by Fundacio Antoni Tapies, and to disseminate the activities devoted to modern and contemporary art that have taken place at the Fundacio over the 1990-2004 period"--P. 140.
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