10/06/2010

Antoni Tąpies designs the commemorative logo for the AAVC

Antoni Tąpies has designed a commemorative logo for the 30th anniversary of the public presentation of the Associació d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya (AAVC) [Association of Visual Artists of Catalonia], of which he is the honorary president. On the occasion of the anniversary, from September to December 2010, the Association will offer a programme of presentations, debates, round tables and other activities in order to promote a reflection on the situation of visual artists in the present Catalan context.


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8/06/2010

Laurence Rassel, member of the jury that will select the project for the Catalan and Balearic Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale

Laurence Rassel, Director of the Fundació Antoni Tąpies, will be part of the jury that will select the Catalan and Balearic Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The jury, proposed by the governing board of the Institut Ramon Llull, will be formed by seven professionals of recognised international standing. Together with Laurence Rassel, other members include: Bartomeu Marķ, director of the MACBA; Joan Fontucberta, president of the Associació d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya; Cristina Ros, director of Es Baluard, and Bestué-Vives, invited artists in the international exhibition of the 2009 Venice Biennale. The jury will be presided over by Vicente Todolķ, director of Tate Modern, London.
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2/06/2010

Condolences on the death of Louise Bourgeois

Fundació Antoni Tąpies expresses its condolence for the death of the artist Louise Bourgeois, who passed away last Monday May 31st, in New York, at the age of 98.

In 1990, shortly after opening its doors to the public, Fundació Antoni Tąpies organised a retrospective exhibition of Bourgeois’ work. The 160 or so works that made up the exhibition, mostly sculptures but also paintings, drawings and engravings, showed her evolution as an artist, from her first productions in the 1940’s up to that present moment, by way of the provocative sculptures of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The exhibition also showed how she had captured throughout her career certain personal themes and obsessions, whilst revealing her singular personality and the intensity of her work as a whole.

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