MY MAGICAL ATTIC: ANTONI TAPIES' S EXHIBITION AT TIMOTHY TAYLOR GALLERY

March 12, 2013

ANTONI TAPIES' S EXHIBITION AT TIMOTHY TAYLOR GALLERY

ANTONI TAPIES AT TIMOTHY TAYLOR GALLERY

7 March 2013 – 13 April 2013

ANTONI TAPIES AT TIMOTHY TAYLOR GALLERY

7 March 2013 – 13 April 2013

Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition by the late Catalan artist, Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), featuring 11 major paintings created between 1992 and 2009, obtained directly from the estate of the artist.

Tàpies was a towering presence in 20th century art, coming to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, exhibiting regularly in the artistic crucibles of New York, Paris and Barcelona alongside peers such as Alberto Burri, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein and Robert Rauschenberg. Tàpies pioneered the use of sand or earth and other unusual materials in his paintings, creating a form of alchemical magic that connects the base matter of life and the body with the unseen, metaphysical realm.

Language was always an important element in Tàpies’ practice. Repeated ciphers, enigmatic sketches and notations are scored, carved and etched into the paintings’ rough surfaces resulting in shrouded, potential resonances. The letter ‘t’ or a form of cross is present in many of the works and suggests the artist’s initial, a crucifix, a plus sign or perhaps a cancellation. The fluidity of these symbols is core to Tàpies’ work: in Ona-Mar (Sea Wave), 2000, the graphic wave form bears a double headed directional arrow, while the ground in Espai-visio, 1996, bears a series of enigmatic letters and symbols.

In Materia i diaris, 2009, (Matter and Newspapers) an impulsive series of gouged marks and newspaper pages cover the textured surface and allude to the graffitied alley ways of Barcelona. In Escrits i formes sobre materia, 2009, the edges of the work are hectically filled with mysterious words and signs. Tàpies’ adoption of graffiti and handwritten slogans and messages speaks of the social unrest and political struggles of the 20th century, giving his work an abiding connection with the street and the lives of ordinary men and women.

The body and its apparently contradictory associations with both the sublime and the

metaphysical, and with dirt and decay was a hugely important subject for Tàpies throughout his career. In Prajna-Dhyana, 1993, and Extensio, 1999, the female and the male body are depicted in graphic and unflinching terms. Nevertheless these works achieve a form of transcendence through honesty, demonstrating Tàpies’ successful distillation of the profound and eternal with the deeply familiar and the transient. At the end of his life Tàpies continued to create often monumentally scaled works, which expressly conjoin the tactile knowable world of the everyday, of language and of the body with the unknowable and the everlasting.

Tàpies’ work is included in numerous public and private collections internationally including Tate, UK; MoMA, New York; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

He represented Spain in the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993 and has exhibited extensively; notably with retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1962 and 1995); dOCUMENTA, (1964); Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (1973); Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1974); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, which later traveled to Chicago, San Antonio, Iowa, and Montreal (1977); and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1990).

An exhibition, Tàpies, The Eyse of the Artist, curated by Axel Vervoordt, Daniela Ferreti, Natasha Hébert and Toni Tàpies will open in May 2013 at the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice to coincide with the Venice Biennale. A major retrospective exhibition Tàpies from the inside, curated by Vicente Todoli will be shown at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, from June until October 2013.

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TASSA SOBRE GRIS - 2001

Mixed Media on Wood

Dimensions: 200 x 200 cm

PRAJNA- DHYANA 1993

Marble Dust, Varnish, Acrylic and Hair on Wood

Dimensions: 220 x 200 cm

COLLAGE DE LA FUSTA - 2001 ( DETAIL )

COLLAGE DE LA FUSTA - 2001

Mixed Media an Assemblage on Wood

Dimensions: 65 x 81 cm,

COLLAGE DE LA FUSTA - 2001 ( DETAIL )

CRANI DE VERNIS SOBRE TELA, 1988

Dimensions: 55 x 46 cm

Varnish and Pencil on Canvas

MATERIA I DIARIS - 2009 ( DETAIL )

MATERIA I DIARIS - 2009

Mixed Media and Collage on Wood

Dimensions: 130 x 194.3 cm

MATERIA I DIARIS - 2009 ( DETAIL )

ONA MAR - 2000

Mixed Media on Wood

Dimensions: 146 x 114 cm

EXTENSIO - 1999

Mixed Media and Collage on Wood

Dimensions: 200 x 220 cm

CAMES ROSADES, 1988

Dimensions: 130 x 162 cm

Mixed Media on Canvas

DIVIDIT EN DIAGONAL, 2007

Dimensions: 160 x 160 cm

Mixed Media on Wood

ESCRITS I FORMES SOBRE MATERIA - 2009

Mixed Media on Wood

Dimensions: 270 x 220 cm

FRAGMENTS - 1995 ( DETAIL )

FRAGMENTS - 1995

Mixed Media on Wood

Dimensions: 89.5 x 116 cm

FRAGMENTS - 1995 ( DETAIL )

ENTRE LES CELLES - 1992 ( DETAIL )

ENTRE LES CELLES - 1992

Marble Dust, Acrylic and Varnish on Wood

Dimensions: 200 x 175.5 cm

ENTRE LES CELLES - 1992 ( DETAIL )

XIII - 2005

Mixed Media on Wood

Dimensions: 54 x 65 cm

731 - 2008

Paint on Canvas

Dimensions: 116 x 89 cm

MIG COS 2010

ANTONI TAPIES

The work of Antoni Tàpies investigates the existential ‘void’ and his diverse creative output shares a clear unifying quality: the suggestion of something that lies beyond the material world but is only sensed in its absence.

Tàpies’s early life in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, coupled with the religious education he received, had a profound impact on his artistic development. His political and spiritual outlook was further cultivated during an extended period of illness in 1940 – a time when he reproduced paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso, and read philosophical texts by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer whilst recovering.

Tàpies’s early work drew inspiration from ‘primitive’ children’s art and the Surrealists, whose work he was introduced to by Spanish art journals. Later, Tàpies was drawn to the Art Informel movement and in turn Abstract Expressionism, whilst exhibiting for the first time in New York in 1953. This new style, corporeal and visceral, expressed the artist’s unquenchable thirst to reflect the unsettling incertitude of the human condition.

Tàpies’s frequent use of assemblage became a signature of his work, particularly the recurring use of windows, doors and beds. Their familiar and humble attributes reflect Tàpies’s deep concern with a personal yet universal introspection, catalysed by the spirituality of the material world.

Tàpies’s work is included in numerous public and private collections internationally including Tate Galleries, UK; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Le Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

In 2013 Tàpies was the subject of a series of major museum surveys: Contra Tàpies and Tàpies: Des de l’interior at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the latter in collaboration with MNAC Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya; TÀPIES: The eye of the artist, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice coinciding with the Venice Biennale; and Antoni Tàpies: From Object to Sculpture, 1964– 2009, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain.

Tàpies represented Spain in the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993 and was awarded the Golden Lion. He exhibited extensively throughout his career, showing work at the Venice Biennale on a number of occasions, as well as Documenta and the Carnegie International. Notable solo exhibitions include retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1962 and 1995); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1973); Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1974); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, which later traveled to Chicago, San Antonio, Iowa, and Montreal (1977); and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (1990).

Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923. He died in 2012 at the age of 88.

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