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GERMAN

Tápies, Antoni
born: 1923 Barcelona, Spain

Self taught except for a two-month attendance at the Nolasc Valls academy, Antoni Tápies came in contact with contemporary art in 1934 and began not only to paint but to immerse himself in the art and philosophy of the Far East. His mature work in particular is suffused by a profound seriousness, born of the desire, as he says, to help "peopie remember who they really are, to give them a topic to think about, to give them a shock that will waken them from their wrong-minded delusion . . ." Tápies devotes hiss work "to helping human beings overcome the state of seff alienation, by surrounding them in their daily lives with objects which confront them, in a 'touchable' way, with the ultimate and deepest problems of our existence." In its invocation of the healing powers of callective memory, Tápies's art is cer- tainly at the very least, as Werner Schmalenbach has said, an art of meditation. Tápies confronts us with complex configurations resembling great slabs or walls, grey and rough, and on first sight melancholy and deeply earnest in effect. The materia) appearance of these paintings cannot be separated from their pictorial expression. The secrets of humble materials, the sumptuousness of paint masses, the expressive force ofsand textures, folded cloth, wood, paper and lacquer are skillfully deployed to the artist's ends and put in the service of his message. The simple and elementary nature of his media, believes Tápies, will encourage us to concentrate on what is essential in us and our world. "The means i use for the necessary inspiration should be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself. At times it may be better to shaw a pile of countless indistinguishable sand grains than to expatiate on soiidarity among men." The devices and symbols in Tápies's art are never solely aesthetic in intent; they invariably suggest the presence of living treatures, usually human beings, who leave traces of their lives wherever they are and whatever they do.

 

EXHIBITIONS:

• 1948 Salón de Octubre, Barcelona
• 1952 26. Biennale in Venedig
• 1952 Carnegie Institute exhibition, Pittsburgh
• 1953 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
• 1953 São Paulo Biennale, Brasilien
• 1954 27. Biennale Venedig
• 1956 Galerie Stadler, Paris
• 1956 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
• 1958 Biennale in Venedig der David- E.-Bright-PRICE 
• 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial Exhibition: First PRICE of PAINTING
• 1959 Kassel, 2. documenta
• 1959 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
• 1960 Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1961 Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
• 1962 Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover1964 Kassel, 3. documenta
• 1965 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• 1967 Kunstverein, Hamburg
• 1968 Kassel, 4. documenta
• 1968 Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien
• 1968,1969,1974,1979 Derrière le miroir, Galerie Maeght, Paris
• 1972 Städtische Galerie im Haus Seel, Rubenspreis of the city Siegen 
• 1973 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
• 1974 Stephan-Lochner-Medaille, Köln
• 1976 Fondation Armin Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, Frankreich
• 1977 Kassel, 6. documenta
• 1977 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• 1979 ART-PRICE of the city Barcelona
• 1980 Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
• 1983 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
• 1986 Wiener Künstlerhaus, Wien
• 1988 Honorary-doctorate of the University Barcelona
• 1988 Musée Cantini, Marseille
• 1989 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
• 1991 Micovna Pavilion, Prag
• 1993 Biennale in Venedig
• 1996 Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
• 1997 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italien
• 1997 Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
• 2000 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

LITERATURE:

• Barbara Catoir: Conversations with Antoni Tàpies. Prestel, München 1997, ISBN 3-7913-1765-2
• Barbara Catoir: Empremtes – Spuren. Antoni Tàpies. Das Werk. DuMont, Köln 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7352-8 
• Antoni Tàpies: Memories. 2 Bände. Erker, St. Gallen 1988, ISBN 3-9055-4584-5 
• Antoni Tàpies: Art and Spiritualität. Erker, St. Gallen 1993, ISBN 3-9055-4631-0 
• Antoni Tàpies: The practice of the art. Erker, St. Gallen 1997, ISBN 3-9055-4462-8 
• Antoni Tàpies, Achim Sommer, Andreas Franzke: Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943-2003. Wienand, Köln 2003, ISBN 3-8790-9821-2

Literature of and over Bernard Schultze into the Germans' catalog national-library
Leipzig (formerly Deutsche Bücherei) 
Frankfurt am Main (formerly Deutsche Bibliothek) 

1. Antoni Tàpies 
Köln : Galerie Boisserée, 2006 

2. Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003 
Emden : Kunsthalle, 2003 

3. Tàpies 
Köln : Wienand, 2003 

4. Empremtes - Spuren. Antoni Tàpies - das Werk 
Catoir, Barbara. - Köln : DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verl., 2003 

5. Tàpies 
Galfetti, Mariuccia. - St. Gallen : Erker-Verl., 2002 

6. Antoni Tàpies 
Passau : Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, 2002 

7. Antoni Tàpies 
Zürich : Galerie Lelong, 2001 

8. Tàpies 
München : Haus der Kunst, 2000 

9. Die Wirklichkeit als Kunst 
Tàpies, Antoni. - St. Gallen : Erker, 1999 

10. Konstellationen 
Fellbach : Stadt Fellbach, Kulturamt, 

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