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TAPIČS Antoni, 1923 Bacelona, Spain - lives in Spain Spanish painter, graphic and object artist. Self-taught. |
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| 1943-46 | Studied law in Barcelona and attended the
Academy for just two months. |
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| 1948 | Co-founder of the
Dau al Set group and of their magazine. |
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| 1951 | Visited Picasso. |
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| 1952 | First
abstractions. |
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| 1956 | Travelled in
Italy, and studied Vedanra, Taoism and Zen Buddhism. |
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| 1959 | Participation in
documenta 2 in Kassel. |
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| 1964 | Participation in documenta 3 in Kassel. | ||
| 1966 | Arrested and
convicted for holding illegal meetings in a monastery
near Barcelona. |
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| 1970 | Retreats with
Miro to Montserrat Cloister out of solidarity with those
who had not betrayed Catalan leftists and communists on
trial. First sculptural objects. |
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| 1976 | Participation in documenta 6 in Kassel. | ||
| 1981 | Awarded the Gold
Medal for Fine Arts by King Juan Carlos and received an
honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in
London. |
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| 1993-95 | Important
retrospectives: 1993 at the Schirn Art Museum, Frankfurt
am Main, 1994 at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume
and 1995 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. |
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| Involved himself very early with
the work of the Surrealists, and was inspired by Picasso,
Miro and Klee. He quickly moved into abstraction and
began to produce collages out of a never-ending variety
of materials. His late works are characterised by
mythological and philosophical themes. The runes and
symbols that appear, scratched onto or in his paintings,
have a magical, cosmic meaning. |
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