Antoni Tapies - Memòria Personal

Lithographic print by Antoni Tàpies (*).
This work was created for the artist's solo exhibition at Erker Galerie St. Gallen between 1988 and 1989.
Made on high GSM lithographic paper.
Limited luxury edition of 700 copies.

Specifications:

Dimensions: 74 x 54 cm
Year: 1988
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, and is therefore offered in very good condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

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The shipping will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Antoni Tàpies was born in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain. He studied law and drawing at the Valls Academy (1943). The military uprising led by General Franco from Morocco spread to all of Spain and led to the Civil War. Antoni Tapiès, an opponent of the interior to the dictator, was definitively marked by this atrocious war. In 1948 he co-founded the group “Dau al Set” and its namesake magazine. He met Joan Miró. After a period of producing surrealist works, Tapiès became interested in philosophy and Oriental art, especially calligraphy. Tàpies transforms a wide variety of materials, often the poorest, into pictorial signs. His first solo exhibition was organized in 1950. The artist includes colors and fossils in blocks pasted with glue, sand, and plaster that would become “walls that attest to the martyrdom of our people.” Tapiès uses newspapers, pieces of rope for social-provocative collages. In 1951, in Paris, he met Braque and Picasso, discovers informal art with Dubuffet and Fautrier and the writings of Michel Tapié. The artist moves toward more figurative compositions toward the late 1960s. The cross is a recurring sign in his work, whether painted or graphic, numerous works that he develops in parallel. His torn and scratchy compositions continue to express a critical stance. Imprints and traces reveal inner meditation.
From the early 1980s, Tapiès created “installations” and devoted himself to ceramic and mosaic art. From 1962, major museums organized retrospectives of his work (Hanover in 1962, Vienna in 1968, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris in 1973, itinerant retrospective in the United States in 1988…).
Antoni Tapiès is the author of several written works reflecting on art: “The Practice of Art” (1970), “Art Against Aesthetics” (1974). Antoni Tapiès lived and worked in Barcelona, the city where his Foundation, founded in 1984, is located. The artist died on February 6, 2012, aged 88.