No contemporary artist has succeeded in infusing anorganic matter with such life and lending it such irresistible evocative force as has Antoni Tapies over the past decades. His pictures, recalling hernetically sealed sections of wall, possess a con-creteness and immediacy that challenge the viewer to experience their sheer tactile presence and their gestural markings as components of a creative process based on a seemingly inexhaustible evolution of form.

Introduction

The Oeuvre

Biographical Notes

Select Bibliography

List of Plates