Antoni Tàpies, "Capgirat," 2005.
Review by Robert Barry.
For a long time, the art of Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) has succeeded in being all things to all people: he is an Abstract Expressionist to some and a conceptualist to others; feted here for his mysticism and there for his materialism. The works currently at Timothy Taylor are no less contradictory. They find the artist at his most personal and most universal, his most grotesque and most peculiarly romantic. Consisting of eight paintings, many of them very large, and few of which have been seen before in this country, ‘Revulsion and Desire’ impresses chiefly with the works’ earthy physicality. Visceral and imposing, they promise a transcendence from the ground up.
