Museu Tàpies

Following the Sun: ASRA3, Catarata de culos, Els Cundits and Irieix
2024-04-20 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Museu Tàpies
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The roof of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies is to become an experimental playground for Opimelissa, a collective who cook, sing, dance and lots more. We’ll be following the sun with the gentle irony and humour of Júlia Barbany, the architecture of the catchy electrosong of Petit Ibèric, the philosophical canticles of Max Grosse about the life and lovesickness of an odd sock with a hole in it, the egodilirium of the sharp-penned dramatist and writer Berta Prieto (if you don’t know who she is yet, you’re living in a cave!), the rhythm of DJ, performer and militant for self-governance Meritxell de Soto, the overflowing energy of tender, multi-faceted punkmother Belén Barenys, the experimental Latin music of Deprerreo, the contorted body of Candela Capitán, who denounces the sexualisation of women through convulsive metrics.
Second session of the programme Following the Sun, an experimental series of sound and stage performances, presenting nine new sessions by young creative talents. The programme, curated and produced by Carolina Olivares Esturillo, aims to promote the youthful, inexhaustible energy of artists to light up and give new life to Tàpies’ solitary sock that presides over the Fundació’s roof terrace.

Segunda sesión: THE VOICE OF FUNKOPOPS, with ASRA3

Guests: CATARATA DE CULOS + ELS CUNDITS + IRIEIX
Unpublished and surprising performance concert by the great ASRA who presents his latest current album titled “mami ençengui la ñocla”. Socks roll for FUNKOPOPS. They’re going to give it our all and more.
Voices and experiments from the great event by:
· Nasty Dalsy: voice, keyboard
· Sarigueyax: voice, keyboard, bass
· Voldo: voice, guitar
· PAVOROTTI FUERTE: voice, keyboard
· Gusanito Rally: voice, he helps make the dolls talk
· Jaumetmandril666: guitar, voice
· rikamichie: voice
· azombike: voice, bass
· blanc nua: voice, keyboard
· Irieix: potatoes

ASRA3
Singer, DJ and prod. with eclectic, humorous, ethereal and experimental tendencies. He is a member of the musical groups Els Cundits and Catarata De Culos, both lyrically and stylistically pioneers of music in Catalan. He is responsible for the queerfriendly alternative parties Desacato Goblin, where cultural movements are devirtualized, already having 47 editions in 2 years, held in venues such as Razzmatazz, Dabadaba, Sala X, Siroco, Upload, Electropura and more. He also participates in the organization of the Opi Melissa anxiolytic musical play library, a generally daytime, multidisciplinary and interactive experience that includes food, visuals and soft surfaces to lie on. It has been held at La Infinita and the CCCB. The gratitude of his assistants indicates that proposals like this are necessary and relevant.

Programme curated and produced by Carolina Olivares Esturillo
Design: Ana Habash and Ignasi Ayats. Illustrated by: Eduard Sales
Ticket sales through the Fundació website and at the box office. Limited capacity

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Montaner y Simón: A Publishing House with History. Guided Tour
2024-04-20 11:00 - 13:30, 2024-03-16 11:00 - 13:30, 2024-02-17 11:00 - 13:30, 2024-01-20 11:00 - 13:30, 2023-11-18 11:00 - 13:30, 2023-10-21 11:00 - 13:30 | Museu Tàpies
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A guided tour that aims to explore the history of the former Montaner y Simón publishing house, the work of the modernista architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, through a visit to the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the former main offices of the publishing house, and two closely related buildings by the same architect: the Palau Montaner, now headquarters of the Spanish government’s delegation in Catalonia, and the Casa Thomas, currently the Cubiñá designer furniture store.

Art of Another Kind: Art Informel in Catalonia, 1956–1966, Catalogue Presentation
2024-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Museu Tàpies
Art informel was one of the leading art movements in Catalonia in the second half of the 20th century, bursting with creative freedom and breaking free from the limitations of representation. Deeply personal and introspective, it embraced a wide range of painting styles — matter painting, tachisme, gesture-sign painting and spatialism — that dominated the European, and Catalan, art scene throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
The exhibition Art of Another Kind: Art Informel in Catalonia, 1956–1966, which can currently be seen at the Museu d’Art de Girona, is the most comprehensive survey of this movement in Catalonia to date and features many artists—particularly women—whose work has not been widely exhibited and who have received little attention in the historiography of Catalan art informel. The show also dedicates a space to historian and critic Juan-Eduardo Cirlot (Barcelona, 1916–1973), one of the movement’s greatest proponents, and pays tribute to artists Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Romà Vallès, Evarist Vallès and Antoni Tàpies, as part of the commemorations to mark their centenary years.
As a way of bringing the spirit of the show to Barcelona, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies is delighted to present the exhibition catalogue, which includes texts by Àlex Mitrani and Lourdes Cirlot, among others. The presentation will be given by the exhibition curators, Conxita Oliver and Joan Gil, who will be joined by graphic designer Jordi Ortiz and the director of the Museu d’Art de Girona, Carme Clusellas.

[Antoni Tàpies. Terra i pintura (1956). © Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona/vegap. Photography: © Gasull Fotografia, 2024.]

Zazen. Seated meditation
2024-04-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Museu Tàpies
Zen is a Japanese word derived from the Sanskrit dhyāna which literally means ‘meditation’. Zen is therefore meditation. As part of the temporary exhibition Tàpies: The Zen Imprint, the Nalanda Zen centre of Barcelona is organising an open session of zazen, the seated meditation traditional in Zen.
There is an art derived from Zen, from the practice of meditation. There is no Zen art. Everyone finds their own way based on their own experience. Meditating is experimenting with yourself; painting as Tàpies did is, too. The fruit of a mind freed from attachments and preconceptions to leave the hand free to draw. When you let yourself go, freedom appears.
There is nothing to gain. Just sitting, letting body and mind go. A thousand and one times. Nothing matters any more other than staying seated, letting thought go, aware of one’s own body and its breathing. Like this, sitting becomes a unique chance to observe one’s true nature.
This session will consist of two parts: the first in the form of seated meditation and a brief meditation while walking round the exhibition space, and the second part of seated meditation. The session ends with some traditional chants.

I close my eyes, seated in meditation,
a thousand mountains in the dawn.
The ten thousand concerns of the human world are in vain.
Alone and unmoving on my cushion,
in the vacuum, sitting before an empty window.

Ryōkan Taigu (1758–1831)

You can enrol for the activity either by emailing nalanda@nalanda.cat or on the day of the activity in reception at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. The session is suitable for all kinds of people, but capacity is limited.
Attendees are asked to be punctual and to wear black or at least neutral-coloured clothing.

Tàpies’ Chairs: Cabosanroque
2024-04-12 19:00 - 19:30 | Museu Tàpies
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Tàpies’ Chairs is a series of multidisciplinary sound actions organised in the context of the Tàpies Centenary Year, with the collaboration of Pompeu Fabra University. The proposal focuses on the voice and words to create a sound accompaniment to oral memory. In this way, each of the thirteen sessions will feature a creator whose starting point will be the chair, taken as a performative object, linking back to the creative universe of Tàpies through the expressive languages and settings of the present day.
The sound action for this fifth chair of Tàpies, entitled Playback, is a proposal by Cabosanroque created exclusively for chairs: a dialogue between the sincerity of the materials’ sonority, the voice of the object and the artifice of its representation. Straddling performance and installation, the action plays with the idea of the materiality of concrete music, often related to the material informalism of Tàpies, revealing the tensions in such staging. Understanding chairs as sonorous objects and autonomous performers, the materials and chairs occupying the space are left to speak. For perhaps, in this regard, the chairs do not need anyone else to speak for them.

Cabosanroque is a group comprised of Laia Torrents Carulla and Roger Aixut Sampietro. Their work has developed in relation to sound and its performative capacities. In turn, their interventions question the spectator when it comes to inhabiting space, understood as physical, temporal and conceptual, as sonorous and visual. They are interested in artifice and its relationship to human beings.
Cabosanroque search for the tensions between disciplines such as music, theatre, the visual arts and sound, striving to open up the edges, becoming spaces in conflict. Their academic training (in music, industrial engineering and architecture) brings them to use technology in all their works, where it is always understood as a tool, as a medium and not an aesthetic, as an ongoing research project. They frequently collaborate with other artists and with thinkers and writers.
Their work has been seen nationally and internationally. In recent years they have shown at: CaixaForum + (2023), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2023), Cité de l’Architecture (Paris, 2021), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2020–2021), Centre for Contemporary Arts of Glasgow (2019), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2018), Schaubude (Berlin, 2018), Fonoteca Nacional de México (Mexico City, 2012), Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona, 2023, 2016 and 2008), Sónar (Barcelona, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2010 and 2008; Frankfurt, 2008; Santiago de Chile, 2015), Grec Festival de Barcelona (Barcelona, 2023, 2021 and 2006), Festival Temporada Alta (Girona, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 and 2009), La Filature Scène Nationale de Mulhouse (2019), Théâtre Garonne, Scène européenne de Toulouse (2024, 2020 and 2019), Unidram Festival (Berlin, 2009).
Since 2015 they have been resident artists at the Fundació Lluís Coromina.

[Photo: Inga Knölke.]

Family Portrait: The Traces We Leave
2024-04-07 11:00 - 12:30 | Museu Tàpies
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How many times have you photographed yourself? And your family? Many times, we’re sure! In this workshop, we invite you to create a different kind of family portrait. We take our inspiration from the work of Antoni Tàpies to leave our mark on the canvas through footprints, imprints, trails, letters, etc. Ready to give it a go?

Approximations 2024
2024-04-06 17:30 - 18:30 | Museu Tàpies
Guided visits to the current exhibitions at Fundació Antoni Tàpies’ museum in Barcelona:
· Tàpies. The Zen Imprint
· Chiharu Shiota. Everyone, a Universe
Saturdays, at 5:30 p.m.

"Deu estius a Campins". My Antoni Tàpies
2024-04-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Museu Tàpies
Antoni Llena’s Book presentation, with the author, Imma Prieto and Oriol Magrinyà.

For ten straight summers, Antoni Llena, one of the most important Catalan contemporary artists, visited his maestro and friend Antoni Tàpies at his studio in Campins, Catalonia. Upon return, he would put together his impressions of the artwork Tàpies had been working on that year in a notebook. The notebook would, in this way, bear witness to the creative process of a great artist, as seen by another who is acknowledged as both his disciple and critic. It also contains a body of intelligent, finely-tuned reflections on art, creation and the creative process itself.

On the occasion of the Tàpies Centenary Year, Editorial Barcino presents these mostly unpublished texts in a book that will be presented at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, with the participation of Antoni Llena, Oriol Magrinyà, head of Editorial Barcino, and Imma Prieto, director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

Antoni Llena (Barcelona, 1942) is esteemed as an innovator in the context of present-day contemporary art. His work, distinguished for its subtlety and elegance, constantly challenges conventional forms and the limits of art. He has published many books on the creative process, and writes regularly in the written press. He is currently a contributor to the newspaper Ara, and has also written for Avui and La Vanguardia, amongst others.

Following the Sun: with Júlia Barbany and Petit Ibèric
2024-03-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Museu Tàpies
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Following the Sun is an experimental series of sound and stage performances, presenting nine new sessions by young creative talents. The programme, curated by Carolina Olivares Esturillo, aims to promote the youthful, inexhaustible energy of artists to light up and give new life to Tàpies’ solitary sock that presides over the Museu Tàpie’s roof terrace.
The first session in the programme is Sala Combo. The Return. Featuring Júlia Barbany and Petit Ibèric, this is sound and performance improvisation. Like when we were in the treehouse as kids. Going into the ‘We’ve lost the ball and we can’t get it back’ loop, the sounds of grrrrrrr. Extended jam session, rambling stage play, upstart concert, the band split. The instruments are heavy—disorganisation is the key. If you want to be a good magician (a real good magician), press the button for the ‘Sock Terrace’ floor and float off in the ritual of nothingness with us. NO HYPE, NO BOMBO, JUST COMBO.

PARTICIPANTS
Júlia Barbany (@juliabarbany). A hybrid performer and stage designer, she situates her work in irony and within the limits of a performance style she calls ‘soft’. The central themes of her work are humour, reflection on performance itself and the aesthetics of failure. She is a member of Las Huecas, a mongrel stage collective in permanent retreat. A graduate of Barcelona’s Institut del Teatre, in 2019 she did the master’s degree in Live Arts and Performance at the University of Helsinki, where she began her career as a performer. She has been artist in residence at El Graner. Her current role there is assistant and art director for outside projects. She performs with the Societat Doctor Alonso company (FIT Cádiz 2024). With Las Huecas she is presenting Sobre l’amistat (Temporada Alta 2023) and is part of the educational team at MACBA, where she runs performance-related workshops.
Petit Ibèric (@petitiberic). After graduating in architecture from the UPC in 2021, he worked in different architecture firms in Barcelona and Paris, where he did the master’s degree in stage design at the École d’architecture de La Villette through the Erasmus programme. In this field he has worked mainly on urban projects for firms like Toyo Ito Architects, URBIMEC and Territoris XLM, but also in 3D rendering studios like Prompt Collective and Mentira Studios, as well as working on small alteration projects as a freelance architect in and around Barcelona.
Outside the architecture field, he has always been involved in music in different formats. From experimental song in personal projects (Petit Ibèric, DJ Temillas and Bimbo Bicasso Corporation, among others) to composing and creating the anthem of the Federation of Planets in the Solar System for the performance conference Official Presentation of the Gadgets for Our Salvation, by Júlia Barbany, and soundtracks for the short films Sincronicidad, by Jordi Clusella, and Calvario, by Lluís Margarit. In the last year he has devoted himself entirely to the world of sound composition and design with bigger projects, setting aside architecture but not forgetting what he has learnt from it.

Programme curated and produced by Carolina Olivares Esturillo
Design: Ana Habash and Ignasi Ayats. Illustrated by: Eduard Sales
Ticket sales through the Museu Tàpies website ant at the box office. Limited capacity.
Link to the full programme.

Silence and Vibration
2024-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Auditori de la Fundació Antoni Tàpies
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This workshop, conducted by David Sitges from MUOM and conceptually linked to the exhibition Tàpies: The Zen Imprint, will be organised in two parts.
The first part will be dedicated to silence as a tool for working on intense listening and the void, the state of inner silence, active listening and subtle perception. Of a meditative nature, it will be based on guided listening and travelling with sound.
The second part will focus on vibration and the voice as both object and subject and will explore impermanence as vibration and vocal singing as meditation, leading to a further exploration of the resonance of vocal sounds and guided vocal meditation.
MUOM is an overtone singing vocal ensemble based in Barcelona, with wide experience in singing education and a range of activities so that anyone who wishes can acquire useful tools, regardless of their level, from people with no previous experience to professional musicians and choirs.
The admission price for the workshop includes entry to the Museum and the exhibitions. On 15 May 2024, there will be a second workshop run by MUOM, independently of the first one. The combined price for both workshops is 36 €.
It is necessary to bring a mat, comfortable clothing, a blanket, and water for the workshop.

[Photography: Rodrigo Vazquez]

Chanoyu Tea Ceremony
2024-02-21 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-01-31 18:00 - 19:00 | Auditori de la Fundació Antoni Tàpies
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Cha-no-yu literally means ‘hot water for tea’ and is part of the ritual for preparing powdered matcha green tea, made from tencha.
As part of the exhibition Tàpies: The Zen Imprint, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies is organising intimate and small tea ceremonies to experience the philosophy of this ritual based on harmony, respect, purity and tranquillity. During the ceremony, visitors will be shown the preparation process, followed by a tasting of the matcha tea accompanied by a yokan, a traditional Japanese dessert.
The ceremony will be conducted by Jingjing Yuan of Tetere, a family business located on Carrer de Saragossa, Barcelona, that has been importing and selling pure tea from China, Taiwan and Japan since 2005. They also have a tea room for organising traditional Chinese and Japanese tea ceremonies in a harmonious atmosphere of peace and tranquillity.
Given the nature of the event, each session will be limited to six people. The price of the activity includes entry to the Museum and the exhibitions.

Tàpies’ Chairs: Biel Mesquida
2024-02-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Museu Tàpies
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Credit: Biel Mesquida as seen by Jean Marie del Moral
Tàpies’ Chairs is a season of multidisciplinary sound actions organised as part of the Tàpies Centenary Year at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in collaboration with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. It focuses on the voice and the word as a means of accompanying oral memory through sound. Each of the thirteen sessions will be led by an artist who will use the chair as a performative element to reconnect with Tàpies’ creative universe through original expressive languages and contemporary stagings.
Biel Mesquida presents the third chair, entitled Textures: Ode for Antoni Tàpies: “I shall sing a thousand and one shortcuts to the invisible world that underpins Tàpies’ work—through rhythms and harmonies I have learnt from his thick layers and thin threads, his colourations and interweavings, his alloys and graffiti… I shall speak with all my soul of his blossoming exploits in the realms of fragility and risk, in the atmospheres of invention and whispers, in the murmurings of matter resurrected by him, as well as far more besides. With winged calligraphies and a user’s gratitude I shall write the entire forest of signs that have opened the doors of my perception. It will be my act of thanksgiving for Antoni Tàpies!”
Biel Mesquida is a writer, biologist, critic and reader with a keen interest in the languages of art and science. His early novels, L’adolescent de sal (1973) and El bell país on els homes desitgen els homes (1974), offered fresh perspectives amid the bleak and desolate landscape of Catalan literature. He coordinated the science and medicine section of the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (1972–1980) and was head of communication and publishing at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (1982–2011). His books, especially Excelsior o el temps escrit, Vertígens, Els detalls del món, Llefre de tu, Carpe momentum and Encarnacions, are noted for their highly original and engaging use of language, conjuring up stirring musical rhythms. He is a regular contributor to numerous media outlets and has run the Festival de Poesia de la Mediterrània since setting it up in 1999.

Guided visit to "A=A, B=B"
2024-02-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-01-16 18:00 - 19:00, 2023-12-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Museu Tàpies
Fundació Antoni Tàpies is pleased to present a guided tour of A=A, B=B, by Pep Vidal, curator of the exhibition.
A=A, B=B is an exhibition that tells us about the spirit of the scientific method, the reasons that make us pursue science, what science means in relation to ourselves, to art, etc.
Pep Vidal is an artist and scientist, with a degree in Mathematics and a doctorate in Physical Sciences. As a scientist, he works as an associate professor in the Physical Sciences Degree at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has produced numerous research articles published in scientific journals and proceedings for national and international conferences. He is also a collaborating professor at the Bachelor of Arts at BAU and at the Bachelor of Arts at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
As an artist, he has participated in artistic residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, (Amsterdam, 2018), Hangar, (Barcelona, 2013-2015), FARE (2013, Milan), Casa Velázquez (2014, Madrid) and has made more than fifty exhibitions, including thirteen individual ones, among which stand out those held at the Abrons Arts Center (New York), the ADN Gallery (Barcelona), at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona), at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela), at the Barcelona Gallery Weekend (Barcelona), at the Warsaw Gallery Weekend (Warsaw, Poland), at the LMNO Gallery (Brussels, Belgium), among others .
Activity as part of the Tàpies Year celebration.

Presentation of the Programme for School Activities
2023-10-04 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-07-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Museu Tàpies
During the coming year, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, will celebrate the centenary of the birth of the catalan artist Antoni Tàpies. For this reason, we invite you to the presentation of the program of activities for the school public for the 2023-2024 academic year by the Department of Education and Public Programs of the museum.
The presentation will include the activities that will take place in the museum, and other actions that will be carried out in the educational centers.
The description of the different educational proposals will be followed by a visit to the Tàpies exhibition. Tàpies. Wood, paper, cardboard and collages, and a festive snack on the terrace to start the celebration!
