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Antoni Tàpies
Llambrec 18, 1975

Llambrec 18

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Lithograph, printed in red, blue and yellow ink, from four stones/plates: on paper d'estrassa.
Edition: hors de commerce
55.0 × 75.3cm (sheet)
Printed at La Polígrafa, Barcelona.
 

From the series Llambrec Material, a collaboration with the poet Shuzo Takiguchi.

This variant of Llambrec 18 is printed "sobre paper d'estrassa", as Debroah Wye notes, this thick brown paper is 'warm-toned, tan-colored Catalan estrassa paper used by butchers to wrap meat, it exhibits a coarse texture with a pronounced weave and many irregularities in the fibers...". Deborah Wye, Antoni Tàpies in print (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1991), pge 49.

 
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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).

 
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