Dual-es. Tàpies facing Tàpies

First exhibition of MACA's own production, carried out in collaboration with the Tomás y Valiente Art Center, CEART of Fuenlabrada. This exhibition invites us to establish a game of parallels by introducing the temporal factor and delving deeper into the theme that accentuates its aesthetic values. The same subject developed at different aesthetic moments of his artistic trajectory results in suggestive pairs of works in which Tàpies confronts himself, offering different visions between the artist of yesterday and almost of today, always with the common denominator of intensity and strength. With the passage of time, that energy, that vigor in gesturality, becomes more latent. His forceful stroke seems accompanied by an arm and a heart that are increasingly youthful. It is not necessary to make a retrospective to observe this reality, as any of his pieces contains it.

The selected pieces are of great technical diversity: from the characteristic mixed techniques based on matter on canvas or panel, collages of objects or textures, painting on canvas, assemblages or graphite on paper.

The exhibition also integrates an assemblage on chamotted earth, that is, one of the artist's famous ceramic pieces. The technical diversity is evident and, nevertheless, the unitary sensation of the whole is equally clearly perceptible. Our vision as spectators will act as parallel editing and will jump from one painting to another to find the coincidences and extract the new meanings that undoubtedly arise beyond the isolated contemplation of a particular work. As a whole, the exhibited work is striking, not only because of the character of its iconography (dual, complementary, contradictory) but also because of the authentic struggle that is established between darkness and light that does not obey exclusively the tenebrist heritage or Spanish Baroque painting. Capital themes such as love and pain or life and death are the most present in Tàpies' work.