Exhibition ‘Tàpies. The trace of Zen’.

Until 23 June, the exhibition ‘Tàpies. the Fundació Tàpies in Barcelona the exhibition ‘Tàpies. La huella del zen’ (Tàpies.

The exhibition focuses on Antoni Tàpies’ interest in the work of some 18th and 19th century Japanese monks who were transmitters of the teachings of Zen Buddhism and who developed a critical attitude and a desire to upset the scale of conventional values – including those of artistic practice – such as Hakuin, Sengai, Jiun, Tori, Rengetsu.

The exhibition shows how Tàpies integrated many of the attitudes, images and techniques used by these artists into his own language and into the Western tradition that was his own. It is not a process of mimesis, but of assimilation of a way of working, and also of a vision of the world that the Japanese tradition has managed to preserve in temples and gardens, poems and calligraphy, ceramics and paintings.

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