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Antoni Tapies : Political Biography - Xavier Antich

Antoni Tapies

Political Biography

By: Xavier Antich (Text by), Manuel Borja-Villel (Text by), Flàvia Company (Text by), Manel Guerrero (Text by), Various Others (Text by)

Hardcover | 27 January 2020

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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 the Authors

Xavier Antich, a Catalan philosopher and professor at the University of Girona, is president of the Tapies Foundation. Manuel Borja Villel is Director of the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. Flavia Company is an Argentine novelist and writer. She was born in Buenos Aires but moved to Barcelona in 1973 where she still lives. Manel Guerrero- Zapata is Associate Professor at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Carles Guerra is an art critic and independent Catalan curator. He is the current director of the Tapies Foundation.

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