Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies´s (Barcelona, 1923) first artistic attempts began during a long convalescence following a serious illness, after which his increasing dedication to painting and drawing led him to abandon his university education. By the 1940s, he was already exhibiting work that distinguished him among the artistic scene of the moment. Influenced by Miró and Klee, he became increasingly interested in iconographic and magical subjects. He gradually began to incorporate geometrical elements and colour studies leading to an interest in matter through the use of heavily textured canvases of great expressive and communicative possibilities.

He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 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 in Zurich, the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Jeu de Paume and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Valencia and the Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona, among many others.