DE SARTHE in Hong Kong presented Manolo Millares - Antoni Tàpies: An Informel Step, a joint exhibition focusing on post-war abstract art
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Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist.
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culture · Catalan painter and sculptor · painter · sculptor · illustrator · graphic artist · collagist · draftsperson · etcher · lithographer · also Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Tapies, O Tapies, Antoni Tàpies i Puig, Antonio Tapies Puig, Antoni Tapies
Born 13 December 1923 · Died 6 February 2012 · Q158099
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2018· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
Nahmad Contemporary in New York presented the exhibition Tàpies: Paintings, 1970–2003
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2012· 2 entries
Died 2012-02-06.
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“Despite my fervour for many Surrealist painters, I was soon wary of the preeminence of those 'literary anecdotes' that made many works appear as 'genre clichés', not unlike nineteenth-century pastiches. They often ignored the visual possibilities of the painting medium.”
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2007· 1 entry
At the age of 83, Tàpies had an exhibition at Pace Wildenstein where he showed 17 paintings done on wood as well as canvas
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2003).
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Tàpies won Spain's most prestigious art award, the Velázquez prize
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2000· 1 entry
And was exhibited at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City in 2006, 2012, and 2014
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Tomás Francisco Prieto Prize (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (1990).
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1990).
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1983· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1983).
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1981· 2 entries
Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1981).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (1981).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Made a series of lithographs called Assassins and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght in Paris, in honour of militant anarchist Salvador Puig Antich's memory
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1973· 1 entry
And at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, in 1977
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Rubenspreis (1972).
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1966· 1 entry
Was arrested at a clandestine assembly at the University of Barcelona; his work of the early 1970s is marked by symbols of Catalan identity (which was anathema to Franco)
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1962· 1 entry
Was given the opportunity to have a Guggenheim Retrospective
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1958· 2 entries
The First Prize for painting at the Pittsburgh International, and the UNESCO and David E
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Tàpies, along with Eduardo Chillida, represented Spain in the Venice Biennale
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1954· 1 entry
Tàpies married Teresa Barba Fabregas
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1953· 2 entries
Began working in mixed media; which is considered his most original contribution to art
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Had his first shows in the United States, at the Marshall Field Art Gallery in Chicago and the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York
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1950· 1 entry
Tàpies' first solo show was held at the Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona, and he was included in the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh
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1948· 2 entries
A group that had strong ties to Surrealism
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Tàpies helped co-found the first post-war movement in Spain known as Dau al Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements
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1945· 1 entry
Tàpies began experimenting with materials
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-12-13.
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