The solo exhibition The Imagination of the World proposes a revision of the work of Antoni Tàpies based on ideas found in his earliest period of production. With Tàpies as the centre of the project, the exhibition seeks to map out a network of relationships between active agents, discourses and practices, as related to two key areas: on the one hand, the complex assimilation of artistic tendencies-such as dada and surrealism-and currents of thought-psychoanalysis, Marxism-in Barcelona in that period; on the other hand, the dialogue of these movements with various forms of the vernacular tradition of popular culture. The curatorial selection of works will focus on the period from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, while also suggesting other possible areas of continuity or rupture over the following decades.