What the Art Market has to say about Antoni TAPIES (1923-2012)

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TÀPIES & BARCELÓ – Two generations of Spanish “materialists”. [03 Aug 2006]

Antoni TAPIES and Miquel BARCELO have much in common, besides their Spanish origins. Both artists instil their works with an unusually powerful physical presence, through the density of the pictured surface which is scored, uneven, thickened, stained or overlaid with disparate materials.While Joan MIRO encouraged Tàpies to exploit the widest possible range of materials, Barceló was fascinated by André BRETON whose idea of the fortuitous meeting (of objects and ideas) perhaps inspired his experimental quest that led him to incorporate sand and ash, ceramic and bone into his art.

Antoni Tapiès (1923) [29 Apr 2004]

The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a major Antoni Tapiès’ retrospective until 9 May 2004, showing more than 200 works spanning all of the artist’s periods. At auctions, the Antoni Tapiès price index has made little headway in the past two years.

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