Footmarks and handprints, sand, wood, earth, rope, words and letters: Tàpies, repertoire is infinite. Miró encouraged him to use forms and materials of every kind, all the more so in an environment devoid of meaning-Spain in the post-war years-in which official reality bore no relation to the situation as it really was. Imperceptibly, true reality asserted its pre-eminence and the expressiveness of increasingly organic materials, endowing his painting with greater materiality than signification.

This text was conceived as a synthesis, analyses the life of the painter,his times and the works selected.

This book is a veritable bibliographical landmark, due in equal measure to its intrinsic value and its special significance. Antoni Tàpies produced the suite of drawings between 1950-1951, the culminating moment of his oneiric period, when the hallmark of Surrealism and the consolidation of his own personality were crystallizing in works that reached extraordinary heights. Joan Brossa s prose poems, written at the same time as Tàpies was working on his drawings, comprise a parallel vision of the world expressed in literature, and contain a profound lyricism and originality that in themselves justify the prominent position that this poet holds in Catalan literature.

Catalogue of the exhibition On the road, curated by Gloria Moure. (Santiago de Compostela, 27 June – 30 November 2014 to commemorate the 800th anniversary of Francis of Assisi’s trip to Santiago de Compostela) Artists:Francis Alÿs; Giovanni Anselmo; Jorge Barbi; Lothar Baumgarten;Joseph Beuys; Alighiero Boetti; Christian Boltanski; Marcel Broodthaers; John Cage; Mircea Cantor; Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller; Tacita Dean; Jimmie Durham; Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg; Félix González-Torres; João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva; Roni Horn; Annika Kahrs; Amar Kanwar; Yves Klein; Jannis Kounellis; Antón Lamazares; Richard Long; Aníbal López; Piero Manzoni; Anthony McCall; Mario Merz; Nam June Paik; Giuseppe Penone; Perejaume; Caio Reisewitz; Robert Smithson; Antoni Tàpies; Lawrence Weiner and Franz West.Francis of Assisi, constitutes the starting point for the research into contemporary art included in this publication. A central figure of European culture, he challenged the world he lived in. On the one hand, he represents a radical criticism of the dominant forces of his time and, on the other, an energetic response to the demands of the situation. His clashes with the hierarchy of his day render him an inevitable benchmark in many of the subsequent socio-cultural movements.The book’s structure is intrinsically bound to the ideas that drove the attitude of St. Francis of Assisi, which remain enormously relevant even today: human dignity in the face of poverty, the increased value of sensitive knowledge as opposed to the supremacy of a purely instrumental reason – entropy as a means of knowledge (the appreciation of nomadic life in a world rooted in a sedentary lifestyle), landscape as part of the human quality (appreciating reality, as a vast, complex and unstable link in which nothing can be external).• 35 contemporary artists present their works for this project.• The book includes specific works by Francis Alÿs, Tacita Dean, Jimmie Durham, Richard Long, Anthony McCall, Perejaume, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.• Beautifully designed and produced, the book includes some insertions specially created by the artists.

Over the two past decades the city of Barcelona has become a point of reference for cultural tourism. The intense activity in the spheres of art and of town planning, and particularly the opening of new art centres and the modernisation of existing museums, alongside the growth of the city’s sculptural heritage have proven to be decisive factors. This new collection of trilingual pocket guides comprising exhaustive updated documentation is introduced by the volumes dedicated to museums, foundations and exhibition halls, and to the sculptures designed for public spaces by some of the most outstanding twentieth-century artists, including Baumgarten, Calder, Chillida, Gargallo, Merz, Miró, Tàpies, Turrell...

Over the two past decades the city of Barcelona has become a point of reference for cultural tourism. The intense activity in the spheres of art and of town planning, and particularly the opening of new art centres and the modernisation of existing museums, alongside the growth of the city’s sculptural heritage have proven to be decisive factors. This new collection of trilingual pocket guides comprising exhaustive updated documentation is introduced by the volumes dedicated to museums, foundations and exhibition halls, and to the sculptures designed for public spaces by some of the most outstanding twentieth-century artists, including Baumgarten, Calder, Chillida, Gargallo, Merz, Miró, Tàpies, Turrell…