Tapies: In Perspective
by Valeriano Bozal
from Actar/MACBA
This volume has been designed, not as a linear narrative, nor as one with a singular voice. Rather it is presented as a mesh of interwoven essays, images, notes, and voices, which aims to reflect the complexity of artist Antoni T pies and his work, which masterfully internalizes and interprets its time and the evolving role of the artist. Together with essays from authors Robert Caillois, Georges Bataille, Anthonin Artaud, and others, particular works of T pies's are discussed in depth. Included as well is a round table discussion (Xavier Antich, Antoni Llena, Antoni Mercader, Pedro G, Romero, and Charles Guerra) that explores T pies's reception in Catalan society, the significance of his work for successive generations of artists, and the influence that this reception might have exerted on the work itself.
Antoni Tapies: Complete Works
by Antoni Tapies
from Poligrafa
As a young man, Antoni Tapies set out to study law; less than two years later, he had declared himself a painter. Born in 1923, he dabbled in Surrealism under the influence of Paul Klee and Joan Miro but soon become an Abstract Expressionist, first in the context of Arte Povera and then as an early--defining--practitioner of mixed media, stirring clay and marble dust into his work and adding cloth, string and paper. He became one of Spain's greatest artists, and one of his generation's greatest, winner of the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion and the subject of Guggenheim and Jeu de Paume retrospectives. This eighth volume of his catalogue raisonne assembles his most recent work, from 1998 to 2004. In recent years he has consolidated and condensed an artistic language that expresses in visual terms, first, his conception of art, and, second, intimate philosophical concerns to which he has returned with the passage of time. His forms, despite their ductility, remain faithful to their origins: these works are at once of the moment, of the contemporary world, and a record, an analysis, of his career.
Tapies: Complete Works Volume II: 1961-1968
by Andreas Franzke
from Poligrafa
Foreword by Andreas Franzke.
Antoni Tapies: Works, Writings, Interviews (Essentials Poligrafa)
by Youssef Ishaghpour
from Poligrafa
Antoni Tapies was born in 1923 to a Barcelona family of publishers and booksellers. He began drawing and painting as a young man, during a convalescence, and in the end gave up studying law to concentrate on art. By the 1940s, in his 20s, Tapies was already exhibiting widely. As an early Matter painter, he added dirt and other solids to his canvases, transmuting them into art and reminding viewers of the earth to which they would return. Later, in the era of Arte Povera, he worked in foam rubber and spray, varnishes and, for creating objects or sculptures, refractory clay and bronze. Coming from a bookish family, he also produced a number of artist's books and editions, working with collaborators such as Joseph Brodsky and Jose Saramago. This collection of the artist's writings is available here for the first time in English. An interview with Manuel Borja-Villel, Director of the MACBA in Spain, completes the volume.
Conversations With Antoni Tapies (Art & Design)
by Barbara Catoir
from Prestel
Los Carteles de Tapies y La Esfera Publica: Tapies Posters and the Public Sphere
by Nuria Enguita Mayo
from Fundacion Antoni Tapies
Tà pies' Posters and the Public Sphere is an illustrated catalogue raisonné of 245 posters by Antoni Tà pies from the 1950s to the present, as well as a large selection of illustrations that show the artist's social commitment, especially his defence of ethical and political issues, and the contemporaneity of his aesthetic vision. The prologue by Pilar Parcerisas follows Tà pies' work as a poster artist -- closely related to his career as a painter -- and interprets his works within the context of artistic, social and political history from the eruption of the avant-garde through the troubled times of recent decades.
Antoni Tapies in Print
Tapies: Complete Works Volume V: 1982-1985
by Anna Agusti
from Poligrafa
This book is the fifth in a series that catalogs the complete works of artist Antoni TÃ pies. Born in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain, TÃ pies is a self-taught painter. He turned to abstraction in 1953 and became known for his use of raw materials in his paintings, including dust, dye, dirt, and plaster. The book contains an interesting essay by Serge Guilbaut that begins by discussing the relationship between TÃ pies's early work and the Franco regime: "Decay, destruction, laceration, smashed and sullied parts were some of the elements into which the painter chose to immerse objects to signal the loss of freedom, the lack of progress and hope." Guilbaut traces changes in TÃ pies's work and changes in politics and the social climate after Franco's death, describing the difference in the painter's work as an "art of burials to an art of flight." From there Guilbaut considers TÃ pies's reaction to more everyday pain and his later interest in Eastern philosophy.
Volume 5 is a magnificent book: 504 oversize pages with 1,072 illustrations. It is rare indeed to see an artist's work so carefully and beautifully cataloged. --Jennifer Cohen
Antoni Tapies' contribution to the aesthetics of the 20th century can be understood through his particular treatment of texture and material, a sensibility that has lent his paintings the unmistakably rich, mottled, and ancient character of a Spanish wall. Walls block access and vision, but also provide a backdrop for graffiti and the effects of the passing of time, and Tapies' consistent use of this motif and the magical assortment of materials through which it is conveyed encompass his endeavor to depict the continuity of physical matter. The fifth volume in this definitive catalogue of his complete works presents Tapies' output between 1982 and 1985, a brief but prolific period during which, despite the predominance of Neo-Expressionism, his influence continued to spread and his work was acknowledged by younger generations.
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