Best Exhibitions Spring Summer 2019 in Barcelona: Antoni Tàpies

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Dates exhibition: 14.03.2019 – 29.09.2019

Price: General admission: 8.00 € | Certified students and people over 65: 6,40 €
In 1991, just under a year after the Fundació’s opening, Antoni Tàpies produced a series of works in Barcelona on synthetic textile mats that he used to cover and protect his studio floor. It was not the first time that Tàpies used this medium. In 1984, he had already experimented with the material, producing two works. However, it was not until 1991 that he created a significant set of works in which the use of this material is a common feature.

Synthetic textile is a fragile, irregular and soft material; it rolls up at the ends and wrinkles. Tàpies trampled and worked on it, both in the Campins and Barcelona studios. He produced many of these works on pieces of cloth that had already served their purpose, and that had therefore been spattered with paint, stains and footprints. Meanwhile, other works were produced on new material. They were textiles of different kinds and varying quality (plastic, artificial leather, cotton and polyester), on which he sometimes painted on the reverse side, and sometimes on the obverse.
The Fundació Antoni Tàpies was created in 1984 by the artist Antoni Tàpies to promote the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art.

To that end, the Fundació opened its doors in June 1990 in the building of the former Editorial Montaner i Simon publishing house, the work of the Modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, restored and refurbished by the architects Roser Amadó and Lluís Domènech Girbau. Constructed between 1880 and 1881, at an early stage of the evolution of Catalan Modernism, the building was the first in the Eixample district to integrate industrial typology and technology, combining exposed brick and iron, into the fabric of the city centre.