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Link to the article in A*DESK

It has been so long since Tàpies was the subject of serious study that it is now news. A few months ago, Valentín Roma went “against Tàpies” and confronted him with the present (at the Fundació Tàpies). Now Vicenç Todolí wants to go in his favour and show his work “from within” (at the Fundació Tàpies and the MNAC). Both of them show the “Tàpies problem”: it is impossible to fit him into any genealogy of artists. While Beuys, for example, was proactive and his work was based on the discussion of ideas and being in public, Tàpies continues to appear to us alone and isolated in his studio.