Antoni Tapies: Political Biography: Fundació Antoni Tapies - Hardcover

Xavier Antich; Glòria Domènech; Manel Guerrero; Núria Homs; María Dolores Jiménez Blanco; Xavier Montanyà; Javier Pérez Segura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3960984197 ISBN 13: 9783960984191

Publisher: Walther König, 2020

Synopsis

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, Tàpies confronted many of the paradoxes a creative artist faces under an authoritarian and anti-intellectual regime. In painting, sculpture, writing and other mediums, his work existed in conversation with the currents of contemporary art in the West while within the strictures of an oppressive state.

Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography illuminates the artist’s responses to the conditions of his native Catalonia, reproducing documents such as letters, manifestoes and samples of the media reception Tàpies generated over the years alongside reproductions of works from across his career. Texts by artists, curators and critics discussing Tàpies and the context of his oeuvre, plus a comparative chronology, are also included.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walther König
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 3960984197
• ISBN 13: 9783960984191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320