Antoni Tapies
Antoni Tapies
Barcelona, 13rd December of 1923
Biography:
Spanish Artist. He began painting in a self-taught, following a lung disease, copying works by Van Gogh and Picasso. Between 1941 and 1946 he studied law leaving to spend all his time to Painting. His early works were realistic portraits with a strong expressionist. In 1948, along with Brossa, Cuixart, Joan Ponc, Tharrats and philosopher Arnau Puig founded the magazine Dau al set. His paintings at this time is undergoing a period described as "magical realism", with fantastic and dreamlike landscapes influenced by Paul Klee and Max Ernst. After being selected in 1949 by Eugenio D'Ors for the "Hall of Eleven", he moved to Paris. He knows the "art autre", which makes him leave in 1953 Surrealism and return to work with the substance and texture to the soil, "grattages", collages, engravings, varnish, etc. physically building surfaces. In 1952 presented in the Venice Biennale "and in 1953 won the Grand Prize for Painting at the Sao Paulo Biennale.
Exhibitions:
Individual Exhibitions
2008
Instituto Cervantes de Praga, Praga.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona.
Instituto Cervantes de Toulouse, Toulouse.
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
2007
Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau.
EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finlandia.
Instituto Cervantes, Madrid.
2006
Galeria Fernando Santos, Oporto y Lisboa.
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Nueva York.
Hotel des Arts, Toulon.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona.
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona.
2005
Hara Museum of Art, Tokio.
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol.
Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Lissone.
Singapore Art Museum, Singapur.
Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, Zaragoza.
2004
Museu d art contemporani, Barcelona.
Neues Museum Nurenberg, Nurenberg.
Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid.
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan.
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona.
2003
La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona.
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Nueva York.
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
Centre dart La Panera, Lerida.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden.
2002
Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais.
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona.
Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Museo Picasso, Antibes.
2001
Bibliothque nationale de France, Paris.
Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
Fundacion Caixa de Girona, Gerona.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
2000
Abadia de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Pace Gallery, Nueva York.
Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona.
1999
Centro Cultural Casa del Cord?n, Burgos.
Centre Cultural Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca.
Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Vigo.
1998
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona.
Casa Rusca, Pinacoteca Comunale, Locarno.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Kunsthalle, Krems.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Sala de Exposiciones del Centro Cultural Palacio de la Audiencia, Soria.
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona.
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
Galeria Senda, Barcelona.
1997
Centro per Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato.
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan.
Sala de Exposiciones del Banco Zaragozano, Zaragoza.
Galeria Fernando Santos, Oporto.
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover.
Galerie Lelong, Z?rich.
1996
Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa. [Retrospectiva].
Nigata City Art Museum, Nigata. [Retrospectiva].
Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Gunma. [Retrospectiva].
Fundacion Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote.
1995
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York. [Retrospectiva].
Pace Wildenstein, Nueva York.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Museo de la Casa de la Moneda, Madrid.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Kunsthaus, Zug.
Marburger Universitts-Museum, Marburg.
1994
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Estocolmo. [Retrospectiva].
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
Zaragoza. [Retrospectiva].
Rupertinum, Moderne Galerie und Graphische Sammlung, Salzburg.
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. [Retrospectiva].
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santa Fe.
1993
Pace Gallery, Nueva York.
Pavellon de Espaņa, Bienal de Venecia.
Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort. [Retrospectiva].
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen.
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
1992
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia. [Retrospectiva].
Serpentine Gallery, Londres. [Retrospectiva].
Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas. [Retrospectiva].
Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York. [Retrospectiva].
Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough.
Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid.
Juan Gris, Galeria de Arte, Madrid.
Galeria Theo, Valencia.
1991
Fundacion Joan Mir, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokio.
Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona.
Galerie Lelong, Nueva York.
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas. [Retrospectiva].
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, D.F. [Retrospectiva].
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California. [Retrospectiva].
Fundacion Serralves, Oporto. [Retrospectiva].
Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacion Calouste Goulbenkian, Lisboa. [Retrospectiva].
Waddington Galleries, Londres.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
1990
Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Lelong, Nueva York.
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. [Retrospectiva].
1989
Galerie Lelong, Nueva York.
Elkon Gallery, Nueva York.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Palau de Belles Arts, Pekin. [Retrospectiva].
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf. [Retrospectiva].
1988
Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Annely Juda Fine Arts, Londres.
Sala del Tinell, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Beyeler, Basilea.
Museo Cantini, Marsella. [Retrospectiva].
1987
Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona.
1986
Kunstlerhaus, Viena. [Retrospectiva].
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. [Retrospectiva].
Galeria Theo, Madrid.
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Nueva York.
Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles.
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris.
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
Dau al Set, Barcelona.
Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona.
1985
Palazzo Reale, Milan. [Retrospectiva].
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Bruselas. [Retrospectiva].
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco.
1984
Museo Municipal de San Telmo, San Sebastian.
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Nueva York.
Maeght Lelong, Zurich.
Galeria Antonio Machon, Madrid.
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris.
Galerie Brusberg, Berlin.
1983
Maeght Zurich, Zurich.
Sala del Paranimf, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.
Abbaye de Sananque, Gordes.
Stadtische Galerie Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe.
Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Fundacion Joan Miro, CEAC, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
1982
Palacio de la Lonja, Zaragoza. [Retrospectiva].
Marisa del Re Gallery, Nueva York.
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venecia. [Retrospectiva].
Studio Dueci, Roma.
1981
Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Fondation du Chateau de Jau, Cases de Pine. [Retrospectiva].
Maeght Zurich, Zurich.
M. Knoedler & Co., Nueva York.
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco.
1980
Kunsthalle, Kiel. [Retrospectiva].
Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, Linz. [Retrospectiva].
Museo Espaņol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid. [Retrospectiva].
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. [Retrospectiva].
Maeght Zurich, Zurich.
Studio Dueci, Roma.
1979
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe. [Retrospectiva].
Hastings Gallery, The Spanish Institute, Nueva York.
1978
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur. [Retrospectiva].
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Museo de Abbaye de Sainte Croix, Les Sables-dOlonne. [Retrospectiva].
Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf.
Artema, Barcelona.
1977
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Nueva York. [Retrospectiva].
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. [Retrospectiva].
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. [Retrospectiva].
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. [Retrospectiva].
Musee dArt Contemporain, Montreal. [Retrospectiva].
Kunstverein, Bremen. [Retrospectiva].
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden. [Retrospectiva].
1976
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence. [Retrospectiva].
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokio. [Retrospectiva].
Fundacio Joan Mir, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
1975
Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Maeght Zurich, Zurich.
Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles.
Galerie Beyeler, Basilea.
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
1974
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaeck (Dinamarca). [Retrospectiva].
Nationalgalerie, Berlin. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Hayward Gallery, Londres. [Retrospectiva].
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. [Retrospectiva].
Gallery Moos, Toronto.
1973
Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. [Retrospectiva].
Musee Rath, Ginebra. [Retrospectiva].
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Palais de Beaux-Arts, Charleroi. [Retrospectiva].
Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles.
Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid.
1972
StDtische Galerie im Haus Seel, Siegen. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
1971
Maeght Zurich, Zurich.
Il Collezionista dArte Contemporanea, Roma.
1970
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
1969
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Gallery Moos, Toronto.
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.
1968
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Viena. [Retrospectiva].
Kunstverein, Hamburgo. [Retrospectiva].
K?lnischer Kunstverein, Colonia. [Retrospectiva].
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf.
1967
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
1966
Galerie Stadler, Paris.
1965
Institute of Contemporary Art, Londres. [Retrospectiva].
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Colonia.
Galerie van de Loo, Munich.
1964
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Colonia.
Galerie Stadler, Paris.
Documenta III, Kassel.
Gallery Moos, Toronto.
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona. [Retrospectiva].
1963
Phoenix Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California.
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles.
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Berggruen & Cie., Paris.
Galerie Im Erker, St. Gallen.
1962
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover. [Retrospectiva].
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York. [Retrospectiva].
Kunsthaus, Zurich. [Retrospectiva].
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas.
1961
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Stadler, Paris.
1960
Galerie Blanche, Estocolmo.
1959
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Galerie Stadler, Paris.
1958
Galleria dell Ariete, Milan.
XXIX Biennale Internazionale dArte, Venecia.
1957
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
Galerie Stadler, Paris.
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf.
1956
Galerie Stadler, Paris.
1954
Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona.
1953
Marshall Field & Company, Chicago.
Galeria Biosca, Madrid.
Martha Jackson Gallery, Nueva York.
1952
Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona.
1950
Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona.
