Cos de materia I taques taronges - Private Collection, Barcelona © Comissió Tàpies
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

‘Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art’

Past event

15 Sept.'23 →
7 Jan.'24

Bozar looks back on the work of Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 1923-2012) with a retrospective that travels through time between 1944 and the 1990s. This is the first major exhibition in Belgium to showcase a complete view on the work of the artist with a selection of 122 works reunited at Bozar for the first time after several decades. From early drawings and self-portraits, the exhibition will unfold with his 'matter paintings' of the 1950s and the objects and assemblages of the 1960s and 1970s. It will continue with his varnishes of the 1980s, which he started a few years earlier coinciding with the beginning of democracy in Spain, and will conclude with works from the 1990s, when Tàpies continued the formal and material experimentation that was always at the heart of his practice.

A self-taught artist during the interwar period, Tàpies reflected on the human condition, his historical situation and the artistic practice, especially the limits and contradictions of painting. His very prolific oeuvre is scattered all over the world.

"Große Retrospektive erinnert an den spanischen Meister des Informel." - ART Das Kunstmagazin 
 

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Blau amb quatre barres roges - © Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art

Gran llençol [Great Sheet], 1968 - © Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art

Celebración de la miel (1989) - Private Collection, Barcelona © Comissió Tàpies

Varnish and pencil on paper glued on canvas

Past events

2023-2024

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Festival

13 → 17
Sept.'23

Opening Week

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Practical information

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Week of Monday 11th September to Sunday 17th September

Friday 15 September, 10:00 → 18:00

Saturday 16 September, 10:00 → 18:00

Sunday 17 September, 10:00 → 18:00

Location

BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts

Ravensteinstraat 23 1000 BRUSSELS

Audience

Kids’ Palace

Guided Tours

Rates

Standard

€ 16

< 30 year

€ 8

< 12 year

€ 0

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In the framework of

  • the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Any Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona