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- Gloria Moure
Antoni Tàpies. Extensions de la realitat (Antoni Tàpies. Extensions of Reality)
Fundació Joan Miró
28 February–14 April 1991
Antoni Tàpies. Extensions de la realitat, organised in collaboration with the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, will open at the Fundació Joan Miró on Thursday 28 February at 7.30 p.m.
Curated by Gloria Moure, the exhibition brings together around 40 objects and sculptures, both large- and small-scale, along with more than 50 works on paper and cardboard created between 1946 and 1990.
Most of the works come from private collections in the United States, Germany, France and Switzerland, as well as from international museums and galleries, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and the artist’s personal collection.
Rather than a purely historical retrospective, the exhibition seeks to highlight the unity and coherence of Tàpies’ work – its sustained engagement with the realities that surround it – and, above all, its radical nature. This radicality is evident throughout the selection presented at the Fundació Joan Miró, from his 1940s collages, already infused with an anti-aesthetic spirit of rebellion, to the explosion of material painting in the 1950s, and his later work. Through expressive gestures, the inscription of impossible alphabets, the recurring motif of the cross, and richly textured surfaces, his work evokes profound philosophical inquiry and invites us to engage with it.
As curator Gloria Moure puts it, Tàpies’ work is not an exercise in abstraction but a paradigm of existence. His works are “extensions of reality”.
Opening: Thursday, 28 February at 7.30 p.m.
Press preview: Thursday 28 February at 12.30 p.m.
The exhibition runs until 14 April 1991.
To accompany the exhibition, a trilingual catalogue (Catalan, Spanish and English) has been published, featuring full-colour reproductions of all exhibited works and critical texts by Gloria Moure and Manuel J. Borja-Villel, director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies Museum.
