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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

Painting no. XLV

Antoni Tàpies

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GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Turin

GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Turin

Via Magenta, 31, Turin

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Since 1953 the artistic production of Antoni Tàpies has definitely turned direction focusing on the problematic of matter. Consequently we are witnessing the reduction of the chromatic alphabet to a few colors, to the advantage of the material consistency of the pigs works that begin to take on the appearance of crumbly and peeling walls, bearing the imprint of the slow but relentless work of time, to which it accompanies a code of light signs, antithetical to the rough tactile exuberance of the material. As usual in those years, Painting no XLV proposes in the consequent title the author's intention to free himself from any descriptive temptation, while in other works the title of the work is simply given by the materials used. Content more than framed by the frame, which in addition to taking up the black recalls the idea of an older and aged object of which only the golden decorations at the corners remain, the painting lives on the ambiguous fusion of the dark background created with Spanish painting, starting from the backgrounds of the seventeenth-century still lifes, passing through the black paintings of goya, up to the dramatic Picassian evocations of the war. To tear the gloomy veil of the composition is the emergence in the lower part of the canvas of the rough sandy concretion: the revenge of materiality with its immanence on the transcendence of color.
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Title: Painting no. XLV

Author: Antoni Tàpies

Date: 1957

Technique: Mixed technique on canvas

Displayed in: GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Turin

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