Antoni Tàpies

Aparicions 6, 1982

Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923, d. 2012) was born in Barcelona into a family of booksellers and Catalan nationalist politicians. He was an influential catalyst in the global phenomenon of postwar gestural abstraction (named variously ‘abstract expressionism’, ‘tachisme’ or ‘art informel’). He has been called ‘unquestionably the leading figure in [Spain’s] art world of the second half of the twentieth century’ (Manuel Borja-Villel, Antoni Tàpies: the Resources of Rhetoric. Dia Beacon, 2009).

Important solo exhibitions devoted to Tàpies’ have been presented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1962 and 1995); Kunsthaus Zürich (1962); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1991); Serpentine Gallery, London (1992); Jeu de Paume, Paris (1994); Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2000); MACBA, Barcelona (2004); Dia Beacon (2009), and Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2022).