Artworks

Antoni Tàpies
Crochet, 1982
Mixed media and collage on fabric
76.77 x 66.93 inches (195 x 170 cm)
(GL14841)

Painter, sculptor, engraver, writer, Antoni Tapiès died in 2012, leaving behind him a colossal body of work the scope and depth of which have yet to be fathomed. Often reduced to its matterist character, the work of Tapiès is first and foremost poetic and spiritual. The object, often used in his compositions, as here, in this work, the embroidered material, is at once a trace of the real and a pictorial element. At the center of the canvas, the letter ‘J’ evokes the sign itself but also refers to the hook’s shape which gives the work its title. This dark sign, both curved and pointed, brings a dramatic intensity to this, as often, erotic composition.