Antoni Tapies Antich Xavier
Antoni Tapies Antich Xavier In works that occupy a unique midground between painting and sculpture, Catalan artist Antoni T pies (1923-2012) fused the material vocabulary of Arte Povera and the…
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Antoni Tapies Antich Xavier
In works that occupy a unique midground between painting and sculpture, Catalan artist Antoni T pies (1923-2012) fused the material vocabulary of Arte Povera and the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionism with the mystical sensibility of Iberian Catholicism. He spent three decades of his long productive career in Barcelona, where he lived and died, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. T pies showed a preference for an austere palate and unconventional materials reflecting the limited resources of his political environment.
In painting, sculpture, writing and other mediums, his work existed in conversation with the currents of contemporary art in the West while within the strictures of an oppressive state.Antoni T pies: Political In that time, T pies confronted many of the paradoxes a creative artist faces under an authoritarian and anti-intellectual regime.