Antoni Tàpies
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Works
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Antoni TàpiesManta nuada2008Paint and collage on canvas86 5⁄8 x 106 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄2 in. (220 x 270 x 24 cm)
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Antoni TàpiesQuatre parts 2008Mixed media on canvas63 3⁄4 x 102 3⁄8 in. (162 x 260 cm)
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Antoni TàpiesRecordant 1999Paint and assemblage on wood76 3⁄4 x 102 3⁄8 in. (195 x 260 cm)
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Antoni TàpiesTriangle sobre matèria1999Mixed media on wood15 x 18 1⁄8 in. (38 x 46 cm)
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Antoni TàpiesBoca negra1996Paint and pencil on paper16 3⁄4 x 28 in. (50 x 71 cm)
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Antoni TàpiesMatriu1991Paint and pencil on paper30 7⁄8 x 41 3⁄4 in. (78.5 x 106 cm)
Framed: 35 3⁄8 x 46 in. (90 x 117 cm) -
Antoni TàpiesGraffiti sobre ciment1990Edition 14 of 30Etching and silkscreen print in several inks (black, grey, white, and cement)54 7⁄8 x 27 1⁄8 in. (139.5 x 69 cm)
Framed: 57 5⁄8 x 30 1⁄4 in. (146.5 x 77 cm) -
Antoni TàpiesTrespeus1990Edition 6 of 30Etching, carborundum, mixed media and collage54 ⅜ x 27 ⅜ in. (138.1 x 69.5 cm)
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Antoni TàpiesDues urpes1989Mixed media on paper47 1⁄4 x 31 1⁄2 in. (120 x 80 cm)
Framed: 50 3⁄4 x 35 1⁄4 in. (129 x 89.5 cm)
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Biography
I try to make my work produce general ‘psychological’ results in the spectator and to get it to act on other senses, not exclusively in the visual field.
Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923, Barcelona) was a Catalonian painter, sculptor, and art theorist who was instrumental in the advancement of modern art, most notably through his investigations into nontraditional materials. Considered one of Spain’s most important artists of the twentieth century, Tàpies first became exposed to Modernism during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, during which he taught himself to paint. Coming of age in a moment of extreme upheaval and conflict, he was deeply invested in the power of art to advance political change, and in 1948 helped co-found the first Post-War movement in Spain, known as Dau al Set. Tàpies later gravitated toward the movement dubbed informal art, incorporating humble materials such as clay, waste paper and rags into his paintings. In the 1950s, he began mixing marble dust into his pigments, which created the striking matte effect that defines many of his most iconic works.
Tàpies represented Spain in the 1993 Venice Biennale. Notable solo exhibitions include retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
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Exhibitions
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Antoni Tàpies
19 January - 4 March 2023 LondonTimothy Taylor is delighted to present a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) in honour of the late Catalan artist’s 100th birthday.View More -
Simon Hantaï, Pierre Soulages and Antoni Tàpies
6 September - 17 October 2019 LondonThe mature work of Antoni Tàpies, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages finds each artist addressing their materials with determined irreverence. Each in his own way has pushed painting to its sculptural limits: Tàpies with the introduction of sand, cement, marble dust and objects into his painted surfaces; Hantaï in laboriously bundling and folding canvases before approaching them with a brush; Soulages, in using thick oil paint as a material to be moulded and gouged.View More -
A New Way of Walking
7 June - 28 July 2018 LondonFor the summer season, Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the group exhibition A New Way of Walking, which brings together an eclectic mix of artists and works all united by an interest in the impact of the surrounding environment on the individual. In the 1950’s, the theorist Guy Debord defined the term psychogeography to represent enquiries into the impact of geographical location upon the emotions and behaviour of conscious beings.View More -
Antoni Tàpies
Revulsion and Desire 16 February - 18 March 2017 LondonTimothy Taylor is honoured to present an exhibition of works by celebrated Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) that, for the most part, have never been shown outside of Spain before. Emerging in the period between 1999 until the artist’s death, these late works, often monumental in size, reveal the artist at his most vigorous.View More -
Substance
18 July - 14 August 2015 LondonContinuing its Philip Guston season, Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the group exhibition Substance, which takes as its point of departure the “meat and potatoes” of Guston’s layered, visceral paintings – coined by Mark Leckey in his Cinema in the Round (2008) – and then goes on to explore the idea of substance in art from different points of view.View More -
Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies
20 November 2013 - 18 January 2014 LondonThis exhibition brings together the work of four artists who were instrumental in the evolution of post-war European abstraction, and looks at the different ways they invigorated their practice against the backdrop of an increasingly confident US cultural scene. Paris continued to be the nexus of European arts, literature and philosophy after the war, but it was clear that artists had to abandon the illusion that art could change society, and instead develop the notion of the artist as a liberated self-reliant individual. This impulse lead to painterly explorations with raw and unaesthetic materials and techniques, the use of paint as a flowing and vital medium and the use of impulsive and spontaneous lines and gestures.View More -
Antoni Tàpies
7 March - 13 April 2013 LondonTimothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition by the late Catalan artist, Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), featuring 11 major paintings created between 1992 and 2009, obtained directly from the estate of the artist.View More -
Outside In
18 May - 13 June 2012 LondonOutside In explores how artists reinvent traditional genres including landscape, still life and interiors, and the relationship between these in their current and recent practice – reinvesting these traditional categories with new dynamism and interpretations.View More
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