ANTONI TÀPIES PUIG (Barcelona, 1923 - 2012). Untitled, 1993. Mixed media and stencil on page of the book "Tàpies, testimoni del silenci". Signed and d

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  ANTONI TÀPIES PUIG (Barcelona, 1923 - 2012). Untitled, 1993. Mixed media and stencil on page of the book "Tàpies, testimoni del silenci". Signed and dedicated in the lower corner. Size: 26,5 x 49 cm. In this painting converges Toni Tàpies' interest in the symbolism of the cross as the limit of human knowledge in front of the spiritual world and the superposition of the red element on black to refer to the sap of life and the course of time. The polarity and contrast between elements that the artist linked to fertility and earth (red, femininity) and his tragic sense of existence (the awareness of finiteness and the mystical breath) are suggested through the symbol of the cross, on which the initial of his name is also superimposed. The use of the page from the book written by historian and critic Alexandre Cirici (an important study on the admired artist) adds another layer of meaning for this creator, a lover of conceptual palimpsests and the overlapping of meanings. Antoni Tàpies was initiated in art during his long convalescence from a lung disease. He progressively devoted himself more intensely to drawing and painting, and finally gave up his law studies to devote himself entirely to art. Co-founder of "Dau al Set" in 1948, he began to exhibit in the Salones de Octubre in Barcelona, as well as in the Salón de los Once held in Madrid in 1949. After his first individual exhibition in the Layetanas Galleries, he travels to Paris in 1950, with a scholarship from the French Institute. In these years he began his participation in the Venice Biennial, exhibited again at the Layetanas and, after a show in Chicago, in 1953 he had a solo exhibition at Martha Jackson's gallery in New York. From then on, his exhibitions, both group and solo, were held all over the world, in leading galleries and museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. He has won awards such as the Prince of Asturias, the Praemium Imperiale of the Japan Art Association, the National Prize of Culture, the Grand Prix de Painting of France, etc., and anthologies have been dedicated to him in Tokyo (1976), New York (1977 and 2005), Rome (1980), Amsterdam (1980), Madrid (1980), Venice (1982), Milan (1985), Vienna (1986) and Brussels (1986). He is represented in major museums around the world, such as the foundation that bears his name in Barcelona, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim in Berlin, Bilbao and New York, the Fukoka Art Museum in Japan, the MoMA in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.
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