ST (I)
Artist
Antoni Tàpies
Exhibition
Panoràmiques
Main features
- Title: ST (I)
- Technical: Gravat
- Dimensions: 17,32x25,20 inches
- Price: 3.600 €
Description of the work
The work ST. (I) is by the artist Antoni Tàpies. Engraving / mixed media on paper. Measures 44.5 x 64.5 cm. Numbering and printing HC II / XV. PVP: € 3,600. Espai Cavallers Gallery, Lleida.
Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona 1923)
He was born in Barcelona in 1923. Painter, sculptor and theorist of Spanish art. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of informalism.
He suffered from a lung disease that led him to drop out of law school and, at the beginning of his artistic career, in the 1940s, he exhibited his first pieces, highlighting his graphic work.
Due to the ravages of World War II and the launch of the atomic bomb, he expressed his interest in dust, earth, matter and atoms through innovative techniques, grattages, collages, incisions, later becoming fundamental part of the personal language of all paintings.
Around 1949, he created paintings in which gray tones predominated, although with the presence of some vivid colors, green or red, and in which textile prints, signs such as semicircles or triangles and distorted letters appeared.
In 1950 he obtained a scholarship to study in Paris where he held his first solo exhibition. It is in this decade that it consolidates itself internationally.
He exhibited at the XXVI Venice Biennale (1952), at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, and won the Grand Prize for Painting at the 1953 Sao Paulo Biennial.
For more information on the work ST (I) by the artist Antoni Tàpies, at the Espai Cavallers gallery, Lleida.
Artist biography
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona 1923-2012
He began his artistic experiments during the long convalescence of a serious illness. The growing dedication to drawing and painting pushed him to abandon his university studies. In the 1940s he exhibited his works, with a marked personality, which made him stand out in the artistic panorama of the moment. He is co-founder of the magazine Dau al Set (1948). Influenced by Miró and Klee, he then increases the iconographic factor and the magical theme. Little by little he incorporates geometrizing elements and color studies that lead to an interest in the subject, which results in fabrics with intense texture and great expressive and communicative possibilities.
With these Tàpies works, around the mid-1950s, international recognition arrived. From the sixties he incorporates new iconographic elements (writing signs, anthropomorphic elements, footsteps and signs that allude to the reality of Catalonia) and technical procedures (new surfaces, use of everyday objects and varnish). Tàpies’ pictorial language has evolved since then and has resulted in a diversified and productive plastic creation admired around the world.
He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Kunsthaus of Zurich, at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the Jeu de Paume and at the Center Pompidou in Paris, at the Museo Nacional Center d’Art Reina Sofia in Madrid, at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art in Valencia and at the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona, among many others.
Parallel to his artistic activity, Antoni Tàpies has developed a work as a writer that has given rise to several publications: La practica de l’art (The practice of art, 1970), L’art contra l’estética (Art against aesthetics, 1974), Personal memoir (Personal memoir, 1977), Reality as art (Reality as art, 1982), For a modern and progressive art (For a modern and progressive art, 1985), Valor de l’art (Valor de l’art, 1993) and Art and its places (Art and its places, 1999).
Antoni Tàpies created the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in 1984 with the aim of promoting the study and knowledge of contemporary art, paying particular attention to the analysis of its role in the formation of the consciousness of modern man.
For more information about the artist Antoni Tàpies at Espai Cavallers Gallery