Artist:
- Tapies Antoni
Artist:
Category:
print
Title:
Oeuvre gravè
Year:
1974
Technique:
lithograph
Dimension:
63 x 90 cm
Plate dimension:
Edition:
100 examples
Editor:
Erker Presse, Saint Gallen
Notes:
hand signed and numbered
Exhibitions:
Publications:
“Tapies in prints”, 1992 al MoMA, New York
Available:
NO
Price:
Opera
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- Antoni Tàpies was born in 1923 in Barcelona. His adolescence was disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and a serious illness. He began to study law in Barcelona but in 1946 decided instead to devote himself to art. He was essentially self-taught as a painter. He soon began to develop a recognizable personal style related to matière painting, or Art Informel, a movement that focused on the materials of art making. The approach resulted in textural richness, but his more important aim was the exploration of the transformative qualities of matter. Tàpies freely adopted bits of detritus, earth, and stone—mediums that evoke solidity and mass—in his large-scale works. In 1950 Tàpies’s first solo show was held at the Galeries Laietanes in Barcelona and his work was included in th... > Read more