Antoni Tàpies
White Canvas with Sewn
Cardboard
1963
assemblage
on canvas
100
x 100 cm (39.375 x 39.375 inches)
private
collection, Barcelona
photographed
from 'The Complete Works, Volume 2', compiled by Anna Agusti
Antoni Tàpies
Signs over White Ovals
1966
mixed
media on wood
196
x 260 cm (77.25 x 102.375 inches)
collection
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
photographed
from 'The Complete Works, Volume 2', compiled by Anna Agusti
I first encountered the art
of Antoni Tàpies in 1983, while an art student in Berkeley, California.
I felt an inexplicable
sense of proximity to the beautiful language that deemed Tàpies's works somehow
inevitable.
Since that time, although
my own art has a closer tie to industrial materials than the earthen matter of
Tàpies, I have often wished for it to share the quality of suspended stillness
that his great works exude.
John
Beech, Brooklyn NY, July 2019
John Beech
Panel Painting #2
2019
oil
enamel, hollow-core acrylic sheet, screws
201,6 x 97 x 1,6 cm (79.375 x 38.875 x 0.625 inches)
John Beech (US)
Repaired Sheet #3
2016
oil
enamel, plywood, steel mending plates, screws
225,7
x 210,8 x 2,2 cm (88.875 x 83 x 0.875 inches)