“The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.”

Source: undated quotes, Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003,' (2004), p. 26.

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Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist 1923–2012

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