Tuesday, 27 August 2019

John Beech / Antoni Tàpies




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)



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