biography of Antoni TAPIES (1923-2012)

Personal data

Birth : 12/13/1923 - Barcelona, Spain
Death : 02/06/2012
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Spain

Address

Barcelona, Spain

Representatives

Anita Shapolsky Gallery – 152 East 65th Street – New York NY, United States
Bellas Artes – 653 Canyon Road – Santa Fe NM, United States
Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Calle d’Arago 255 – Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Lelong New York – 528 West 26 th street – New York NY, United States
Loft 9 Gallery – New York NY, United States
Pacewildenstein – 9540 Wilshire Boulevard – Beverly Hills CA, United States
Pacewildenstein – 32 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
Serge Sorokko Gallery – 213 Grant Avenue – San Francisco CA, United States

Professional data

Work and Life

1984:Creation of the “Fundació Antoni Tàpies” in Barcelona
1950:Thanks to a fellowship from the french government, he spends one year in Paris

Work

Categorie and medium


Painting : Acrylic - Mixed media/canvas - Mixed media/panel
Print-Multiple : Etching in colors - Monotype - Woodcut
Drawing-Watercolor : Collage - Mixed media/paper

Movements and styles

Art Informel
Tachism

Works

Visio primera
Date of creation : 2001
Medium : Mixed media
Materials : painting
Supports : wood
Size : 130 x 162 cm
 
Negre i sanguina
Date of creation : 2000
Medium : Etching in colors
Process : etching-soft ground
 
Cal.ligràfic
Date of creation : 1995
Medium : Woodcut
 
Composició d'acrilic
Date of creation : 1980
Medium : Acrylic/paper
Size : 63 x 90 cm
 
L'Escala
Date of creation : 1974
Medium : Mixed media/panel
Materials : mixed media
Supports : wood
Size : 250 x 300 cm
 
Blanche Tendue et Graphisme Noir
Date of creation : 1974
Medium : Monotype
Size : 140 x 95 cm
 
Brown-Grey with Six Marks
Date of creation : 1959
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Size : 102 x 76 inch
 
Grey and Green
Date of creation : 1957
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Materials : oil-resin
Size : 114 x 161 cm
 
Grey on White
Date of creation : 1957
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Size : 51 x 64 inch
 
Grey Relief Perforated by a Black Sign
Date of creation : 1955
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Size : 58 x 38 inch
 
Grey and Black Cross
Date of creation : 1955
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Size : 57 x 45 inch
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

Solo exhibitions

2006

Pace Wildenstein – New York NY, United States
04/21/2006 – 06/03/2006

2005

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art – Tokyo, Japan
2005 – 05/29/2005

PATIO HERRERIANO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Español – Valladolid, Spain
06/04/2005 – 10/19/2005

Galerie Lelong Zürich – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
04/09/2005 – 05/28/2005

2004

Premio Velásquez 2003
MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – Madrid, Spain
05/04/2004 – 08/31/2004

Retrospective
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Barcelona, Spain
02/18/2004 – 05/09/2004

2003

Pacewildenstein – New York NY, United States
02/28/2003 – 03/29/2003

2002

Galeria Fernando Santos – Porto, Portugal
2002

Galeria Fernando Santos – Lisbon, Portugal
2002

Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Barcelona, Spain
2002 – 02/28/2003

Tàpies, la peinture au corps à corps
Musée Picasso – Antibes, France
07/20/2002 – 10/13/2002

2001

BNF Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Paris, France
2001

2000

Antoni Tàpies – Die Retrospektive
Haus der Kunst – Munich, Germany
05/26/2000 – 08/13/2000

1998

Tàpies, work on paper
Galerie Lelong Paris – Paris, France
1998

1997

Anita Shapolsky Gallery – New York NY, United States
11/14/1997 – 01/10/1998

1995

Tàpies
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo – Madrid, Spain
1995

Tàpies
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York NY, United States
1995

1993

Pacewildenstein – New York NY, United States
1993

Retrospective
Schirn Kunsthalle – Frankfurt, Germany
1993

1992

Tàpies. Comunicació sobre el mur
Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Barcelona, Spain
1992

1991

Antoni Tàpies. Celebració de la mel
CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
1991

1990

Tàpies. Extensiones de la realidad
MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – Madrid, Spain
1990

1989

Galerie Lelong Zürich – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
1989

1986

Retrospective
Wiener Künstlerhaus – Vienna, Austria
1986

Retrospective
Van AbbeMUSEUM – Eindhoven, Netherlands
1986

1985

Retrospective
Musée d¿Art Moderne – Brussels, Belgium
1985

Retrospective
Palazzo Reale – Milan MI, Italy
1985

1983

Fundació Joan Miró – Barcelona, Spain
1983

1981

Knoedler & Company – New York NY, United States
1981

1980

Retrospective
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo – Madrid, Spain
1980

Retrospective
Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1980

1976

Retrospective
Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Barcelona, Spain
1976

Retrospective
The Seibu Museum of Art – Tokyo, Japan
1976

Retrospective
Fondation Maeght – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
1976

1973

Retrospective
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – Paris, France
1973

1972

Galerie Maeght – Paris, France
1972

1971

Galerie Maeght – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
1971

1968

Retrospective
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts – Vienna, Austria
1968

1965

Retrospective
ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts – London, United Kingdom
1965

1962

Retrospective
Kestner Gesellschaft – Hanover, Germany
1962

1956

Galerie Arnaud – Paris, France
1956

Galerie Stadler – Paris, France
1956

1953

Martha Jackson Gallery – New York NY, United States
1953

1950

Galería Layetana – Barcelona, Spain
1950

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

Art shows / fairs

2007

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais – Paris, France
10/18/2007 – 10/22/2007
Represented by : Guillermo de Osma Galeria – Calle Claudio Coello, 4 – Madrid, Spain

2006

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Waddington Galleries – 11 Cork Street – London, United Kingdom

2004

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Galerie Jean Boghici – Ipanema Rua Joana Angélica, 180 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Galerie Brusberg Berlin – Kurfürstendamm 213 – Berlin, Germany

2003

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Galerie Lelong Zürich – Galerie Lelong Zürich Utoquai 31 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland

Art Cologne, n° 37
Cologne, Germany
10/29/2003 – 11/02/2003
Represented by : Galeria Colon XVI – Colon de Larreategui, 16 – Bilbao, Spain

FIAC, n°30
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/09/2003 – 10/13/2003
Represented by : Galerie Bernard Cats – 15 rue Ernest Allard – Brussels, Belgium

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Galerie Beyeler – Bäumleingasse 9 – Basel BS, Switzerland

Art Frankfurt – Die europäische Messe für junge Kunst, n°15
Frankfurt, Germany
04/27/2003 – 05/01/2003
Represented by : Galeria Colon XVI – Colon de Larreategui, 16 – Bilbao, Spain

KUNSTKÖLN 2003 – Internationale Messe für Editionen, Art Brut, Kunst nach 1980
Rheinhallen – Cologne, Germany
04/05/2003 – 04/09/2003
Represented by : Fischerplatz-Galerie – Fischergasse 21 – Ulm, Germany

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Pacewildenstein – 32 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States

St’art – Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, n°7
Parc des expositions du Wacken – Strasbourg, France
01/31/2003 – 02/03/2003
Represented by : Galerie Arte e Arte – Bologna BO, Italy

2002

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Galerie Lelong Paris – 13, rue de Téhéran – Paris, France

FIAC, n°29
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/24/2002 – 10/28/2002
Represented by : Galerie Nathalie Parienté – 14-16 rue de Thorigny – Paris, France

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galerie Bernard Cats – 15 rue Ernest Allard – Brussels, Belgium

KunstRAI
Amsterdam, Netherlands
05/15/2002 – 05/20/2002
Represented by : Kunsthandel de Kool – Steegoversloot 44 – Dordrecht, Netherlands

ArtBrussels – 20th Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
05/02/2002 – 05/06/2002
Represented by : Plusgalleries – Wolstraat 23 – Antwerp, Belgium

ART2002 – The 14th London Contemporary Art Fair
Business Design Centre – London, United Kingdom
01/16/2002 – 01/20/2002
Represented by : Adam Gallery – 13 John Street – Bath, Avon, United Kingdom

2001

Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Galerie Lelong Paris – 13, rue de Téhéran – Paris, France

AAF – The Third Affordable Art Fair
Battersea Park – London, United Kingdom
10/18/2001 – 10/21/2001
Represented by : Paper Mint Art Gallery – 70 Maxted Road – London, United Kingdom

FIAC, n°28
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/10/2001 – 10/15/2001
Represented by : Galerie Nathalie Seroussi – 34 Rue de Seine – Paris, France

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Galerie Bernard Cats – 15 rue Ernest Allard – Brussels, Belgium

KunstRAI, n° 17
Amsterdam, Netherlands
06/05/2001 – 06/10/2001
Represented by : Galerie Palma Arte – Strada des Castelletto 18 – Alseno PC, Italy

art-vienna, n° 1
Technisches Museum – Vienna, Austria
05/10/2001 – 05/13/2001
Represented by : Galerie Erik Bausmann – Kerschensteinerstrasse 13 – Mainz, Germany

ArtBrussels – 19th Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
04/20/2001 – 04/24/2001
Represented by : Galeria Colon XVI – Colon de Larreategui, 16 – Bilbao, Spain

KUNSTKÖLN 2001 – Internationale Messe für Editionen, Art Brut, Kunst nach 1980
Rheinhallen – Cologne, Germany
03/29/2001 – 04/01/2001
Represented by : Art Selection – Weinbergstrasse 64 – Kilchberg, Switzerland

Art Innsbruck, n° 5
Innsbruck, Austria
03/08/2001 – 03/11/2001
Represented by : Galerie Altesse – Churerstrasse 69 – Nendeln, Liechtenstein

13th Annual Works on Paper
New York NY, United States
03/02/2001 – 03/04/2001
Represented by : Burton Marinkovich Fine Art – 1506 21st Street North West – Washington DC, United States

Arte Fiera – Mostra Mercato d’Arte contemporanea
Quartiere Fieristico – Bologna BO, Italy
01/25/2001 – 01/29/2001
Represented by : Il Bulino – Via Urbana 148 – Rome, Italy

ART2001 – The 13th London Contemporary Art Fair
Business Design Centre – London, United Kingdom
01/17/2001 – 01/21/2001
Represented by : Adam Gallery – 13 John Street – Bath, Avon, United Kingdom

Artpalmbeach – 4th Modern & Contemporary Art Fair
International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches – West Palm Beach FL, United States
01/10/2001 – 01/15/2001
Represented by : Buschlen Mowatt Galleries – Main Floor 1445 West Georgia Street – Vancouver BC, Canada

2000

ARTissima – Arte Contemporaneo a Torino, n° 7
Palazzo del Lavoro – Turin TO, Italy
10/05/2000 – 10/08/2000
Represented by : Galería Pelaires – Pelaires, 5 – Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Art Expo – Fira d’Art de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
05/18/2000 – 05/22/2000
Represented by : Galeria Barcelona – Plaza Dr. Letamendi 34 – Barcelona, Spain

KUNSTKÖLN 2000 – Internationale Messe für Editionen, Art Brut, Kunst nach 1980
Messegelände Köln-Deutz – Cologne, Germany
04/01/2000 – 04/09/2000
Represented by : Galerie Erik Bausmann – Kerschensteinerstrasse 13 – Mainz, Germany

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galeria Colon XVI – Colon de Larreategui, 16 – Bilbao, Spain

INTERART ‘99 – 14a Fira Internacional d’Art
Valencia, Spain
10/20/1999 – 10/24/1999
Represented by : Diagonal Art – Rossello 254 – Barcelona, Spain

ARTissima – Arte Contemporaneo a Torino, n° 6
Turin TO, Italy
10/07/1999 – 10/10/1999
Represented by : Salamon – L’ArteModerna – Via San Quintino, 4 – Turin TO, Italy

Artpalmbeach – Modern & Contemporary Art Fair
International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches – West Palm Beach FL, United States
03/10/1999 – 03/15/1999
Represented by : Buschlen Mowatt Galleries – Main Floor 1445 West Georgia Street – Vancouver BC, Canada

1998

ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, n°17
Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I – Madrid, Spain
1998
Represented by : Galeria Altair – San Jaime, 23 -bajos – Palma de Mallorca, Spain

SAGA – 12ème Salon des Arts Graphiques Actuels
Espace Eiffel Branly – Paris, France
04/23/1998 – 04/27/1998
Represented by : Galerie Dialogue – 26 Rue Fabert – Paris, France

1990

ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo
Madrid, Spain
02/08/1990 – 02/13/1990
Represented by : Evelyn Aimis Fine Art – 3012C South Ocean Boulevard – Highland Beach FL, United States

Group exhibitions

2004

De l’écriture à la peinture
Fondation Maeght – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2004 – 11/14/2004

Big and Small
Anita Shapolsky Gallery – New York NY, United States
02/07/2004 – 03/27/2004

2003

Sept Lieux – Sept Matières
Hôtel du Département, Centre d’Art Présence Van Gogh, Château de l’Empéri, Galerie du Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône, Musée de l’Arles Antique – Marseille, France
10/17/2003 – 01/15/2004

Le Cabinet d’Ann Philbin
FRAC Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Picardie – Amiens, France
06/13/2003 – 07/26/2003

Un jardin secret
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée – La Louvière, Belgium
05/17/2003 – 08/17/2003

20th Century Spanish Works on Paper
Galerie Stefan Röpke – Cologne, Germany
04/25/2003 – 06/28/2003

Collection : étape 01
Pavillon du Musée – Vitry-sur-Seine, France
03/01/2003 – 04/06/2003

De Picasso à Barceló, les artistes espagnols
Fondation Pierre Gianadda – Martigny, Switzerland
01/31/2003 – 06/09/2003

2002

Learning from Africa
Galeria Mário Sequeira – Braga, Portugal
02/2002 – 03/2002

Anton Heyboer, Antoni Tapies & Cy Twombly
Museum Moderner Kunst – Passau, Germany
2002 – 06/09/2002

Abstracciones 1955-2002
MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – Madrid, Spain
2002

Positif/Négatif
Collège Jacques Cartier – Amiens, France
11/07/2002 – 12/17/2002

Eduardo Chillida / Antoni Tàpies
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin – Berlin, Germany
07/20/2002 – 09/27/2002

Les Jeux dans l’art du 20e siècle
Espace Bellevue – Biarritz, France
06/22/2002 – 10/03/2002

Claude Monet … bis zum digitalen Impressionismus
Fondation Beyeler – Riehen BL, Switzerland
03/28/2002 – 08/18/2002

2001

Portraits photographiques d’artistes
Salle Rossini – Paris, France
10/04/2001 – 10/06/2001

Chillida/Tàpies: materia y pensamiento visual (Chillida/Tàpies: Matter and Visual Thought)

Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao, Spain
10/02/2001 – 05/19/2002

2000

Partage d’exotismes – 5ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Halle Tony Garnier – Lyon, France
06/27/2000 – 09/24/2000

1996

Chillida, Miró, Riera i Aragó, Tàpies
Galerie Franz Swetec – Düsseldorf, Germany
1996

1993

Aperto 93 – 45° Biennale di Venezia
Giardini di Castello / Arsenale – Venice VE, Italy
1993

1992

Expo’92 – Exposición Universal / Universal Exhibition
Sevilla, Spain
1992

1989

Exposición Inaugural
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern/Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno – Valencia, Spain
1989

1987

Le Siècle de Picasso
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – Paris, France
1987

1986

Exposición Inaugural
MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – Madrid, Spain
1986

1979

Soft-Art. Weich und Plastisch
Kunsthaus – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
1979

1976

Spagna: Vanguardia Artistica Realtà Sociale – 37° Biennale di Venezia
Venice VE, Italy
1976

1967

International Biennial of Graphic Art
Ljubljana, Slovenia
1967

1965

Collages and Constructions
Martha Jackson Gallery – New York NY, United States
1965

1964

Painting and Sculpture of a Decade
Tate Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1964

Documenta III
Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Alte Galerie – Kassel, Germany
06/27/1964 – 10/05/1964

1960

New Spanish Painting and Sculpture
MoMA Museum of Modern Art – New York NY, United States
1960

Before Picasso, After Miró
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York NY, United States
1960

Neue Malerei. Form, Struktur, Bedeutung
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus – Munich, Germany
1960

1954

Reality & Fantasy 1900-1954
Walker Art Center – Minneapolis MN, United States
1954

27e Biennale di Venezia
Venice VE, Italy
1954

1952

26° Biennale di Venezia
Venice VE, Italy
1952

1951

Primera Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte
Madrid, Spain
1951

1949

Un aspecto de la pintura catalana
Institut Français / Institut Francès – Barcelona, Spain
1949

Bibliography (Selected)

On the artist

Books

1977

Antoni Tàpies: Thirty-Three Years of his Work
Publisher: Albright Knox Art Gallery – 1285 Elmwood Avenue – Buffalo NY, United States
Author: Barrio-Garay José Luis
1977

Catalogues raisonnés

1990

Tàpies: the Complete Works n° 2
Publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Calle d’Arago 255 – Barcelona, Spain
Author: Augusti Anna
1990

1989

Tàpies: the Complete Works n° 1
Publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Calle d’Arago 255 – Barcelona, Spain
Author: Augusti Anna
1989

Periodicals

2004

FRIMBOIS Jean-Pierre – Mélange des vents
in: Art Actuel n° 32 p. 92
Paris, France
05/2004-06/2004

2002

BREERETTE Geneviève – Exposition Antoni Tàpies fait corps avec ses toiles
in: Le Monde p. 25
Paris, France
20/07/2002

1990

CEMBALEST Robin – Master of Matter
in: ArtNews n° 6 p. 142
New York NY, United States
06/1990-08/1990

Legals