"A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography" integrates the memoirs of Antoni Tapies, beginning in pre-civil war Barcelona and extending to Francoist Madrid, existentialist Paris, and New York in the 1950s, with historical images from diverse sources, including the family and the artist's arc[...]
In this insightful collection, one of Spain's most influential artists, Antoni Tapies, 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 Aestheti[...]
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is organising 'Antoni Tapies, from Object to Sculpture (1964-2002)', an exhibition devoted to the lesser known facets of the painter: his sculptures and assemblages. This is the first complete analysis of the sculptures and objects created by Tapies, encompassing the who[...]
Antoni Tàpies was born in 1923 to a Barcelona family of publishers and booksellers. He began drawing and painting as a young man, during a convalescence, and in the end gave up studying law to concentrate on art. By the 1940s, in his 20s, Tàpies was already exhibiting widely. As an early Matter pa[...]