Antoni Tàpies

Andreas Franzke

John William Gabriel

"Antoni Tapies, Spain's greatest living artist, is a leading exponent of "matter" painting, a style characterized by encrusted layers of paint that create an effect of solid relief. His best-known works resemble sections of weathered wall, textured with the traces of time and human endeavor. This highly concrete, starkly immediate art reflects the artist's profound humanitarian concerns and continues the tradition of realism and solemn mysticism that has been characteristic of Spanish art through the centuries." "Featuring high-quality reproductions of major works from all phases of the artist's career, this book traces the development of Tapies's art from the drawings of the 1940's, when he was forced by a potentially fatal disease to spend a long period in sanatoria, to the first "wall" paintings of the mid-1950's, from the assemblages of the 1970's to the fire-clay sculptures of recent years. A number of his latest paintings are discussed and illustrated. The author shows how the artist's intensely personal imagery is intimately related to his intellectual and political experiences. Throughout his career Tapies has been an advocate of freedom for his native Catalonia and, during the Franco dictatorship, was an outspoken champion of human liberty. Such concerns have caused the artist to avoid pure abstraction, whether by virtue of references to the visible world in his works or by the sheer force of their material presence." "Tapies has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of sources: the art of Joan Miro and Paul Klee, of Surrealism and Far Eastern calligraphy have played as formative a role as have the music of Richard Wagner and the philosophy of Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Far East. He has absorbed these influences to fashion an art of confession, of manifestos and appeals, homages and protests. This overview of an oeuvre marked by the greatest personal and artistic integrity is completed by biographical notes and an extensive bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Antoni Tapies. Englische Ausgabe.

Juan José Lahuerta

Salvador Dalí

Emily Braun

Juan Eduardo Cirlot

Lourdes Cirlot

Giulio Carlo Argan

Giangiorgio Pasqualotto

Perejaume

Javier Melloni

Eduard Cairol

Daniel R. Esparza

Martine Heredia

Enrique Granell

Alfonso Alegre Heitzmann

Jordi Garcés

To mark the centenary of the birth of Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona 1923-2012), the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Fundació Tàpies in Barcelona organised a conference entitled ‘Art and Spirituality’. This is the same title as the lecture that Tàpies gave at the UPF when he was awarded an honorary degree in 1988. It is with that lecture that we open the issue of Engramma that we present here, which bears the same title as this monograph dedicated to the Catalan artist. The issue contains contributions by Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Giulio Carlo Argan, Salvador Dalí - published in the years between 1955 and 1962 when Tàpies introduced Informal Art in Barcelona. We also publish some of the papers given at the 2012 conference: Emily Braun, Alfonso Alegre Heitzmann, Javier Melloni, Martine Heredia, Jordi Garcés). In addition, other significant contributions by Giorgio Pasqualotto, Daniel Esparza, Eduard Cairol, Enrique Granell, Juan José Lahuerta and Lourdes Cirlot. A section of the issue is reserved for the Sala de Reflexió at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, conceived by Tàpies as a space for meditation (as stated in the text by Tàpies himself that we republish here). The images of the Sala Tàpies that we publish in this issue are accompanied by texts by Jordi Garcés and Javier Melloni. Finally, two contributions by the Catalan artist Perejaume, who installed his work Fer voltejar una creu in the Sala de Reflexió during the 2012 conference. As a "Homage to Antoni Tàpies" we publish here the verses that Jean-Luc Nancy dedicated to Antoni Tàpies in his contribution to the conference at the Tàpies Foundation in 2012.

La Rivista di Engramma 212, maggio 2024

Arte e spiritualità. Omaggio a Antoni Tàpies

Tàpies and the Catalan Spirit

El Tatuatge i El Cos: Papers, Cartons i Collages [published on the Occasion of the Exhibition Held at Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 3 March - 3 May 1998].

Antoni Tàpies

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