I created materials that would allow me to discover what happens inside matter

Like many artists on both sides of the Atlantic, Antoni Tàpies was profoundly affected by the effects of the Second World War and the dropping of the atomic bomb. This led him to become interested in matter, earth, dust, atoms and particles. His love of science, together with an interest in philosophy, the Western classical tradition and oriental spirituality would never abandon him. ‘We believe things are solid bodies, but we should know that, inside all of this, there is an enormous dynamism. I created materials that would allow me to discover what happens inside matter. […] This feeling of mystery in my painting, a great mystery that, far from guiding us to what is beyond, is content with taking us back to what is here’, he explained in 2002. With the so-called matter paintings, Tàpies found his place in Informalism and was internationally recognised as one of his main exponents. 

WORKS ON THE COLLECTION BY ANTONI TÀPIES

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Forma blanca

1959

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Ocre amb fletxa

1971

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Signes

1968

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