Antoni Tapies: From Object to Sculpture 1964-2009

·The catalogue brings together all the works presented in the exhibition, works from various international museums and collectors, which reveal a lesser known aspect of the artist, thus adding to knowledge about the conceptual art that the artist Antoni Tàpies developed throughout his highly productive life ·Accompanied by texts written by both the curator and an internationally renowned art critic or historian, as well as texts by other artists about the master ·The documentary annex will contain a glossary, a chronology and a biography which reflect the latest research on the artist The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is organizing Antoni Tàpies, from Object to Sculpture (1964-2002), an exhibition devoted to the lesser known facets of the painter: his sculptures and assemblages. This is the first complete analysis of the sculptures and objects created by Tàpies, encompassing the whole of his artistic production for almost five decades. The exhibition is conceived as a chronological analysis of Tàpies' sculptural work and as a methodical examination of his treatment of space, revealing conceptual genealogies which locate sculpture, the object and assemblage on the front line of the artist's investigations. The show is curated by Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya (Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, 1968), an internationally renowned curator of exhibitions on contemporary art. Currently a curator at New York's Guggenheim Museum, from 2008-2011, he served as Executive Director-Curator of the Para/Site Art Space, the main independent center for contemporary art in Hong Kong, and worked for more than six years at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Spain, where he was Acting Director from 2006-07.