(Barcelona 1923-2012)
Untitled, 1982, signed, painting and varnish on cardboard laid down on canvas, 37 x 81 cm, framed
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Jacques Dupin
This work is registered in the Comissiò Tàpies, Barcelona and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity
Provenance:
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris (stamp on the certificate)
European Private Collection
When I speak of reality, I always think of the essence. Spiritual depth is not located in a remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life. This is what great thinkers have taught me, especially the philosophers of the Far East, for whom true wisdom - from which I am far removed - is the connection between samsara (the ordinary world) and nirvana (deep reality).
To achieve contact with reality does not meaning putting yourself somewhere else; it is not transcendence, but a thorough immersion in one"s own environment. A reality that is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at the same time.
Antoni Tàpies, quoted in:
Antoni Tàpies, Galerie Thomas, Munich, 2023, exh. cat., p. 28