Museu Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies left a trail of modern art that still shapes this museum’s purpose. Here, the Museu Tàpies—formerly the “Fundació Antoni Tàpies”—exists to promote the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art, created in 1984 by the artist Antoni Tàpies himself. The foundation is dedicated mainly to his life and works, and it holds one of the most complete collections of Tàpies’ work, largely built through donations from Antoni and Teresa Tàpies. The setting matters as much as the art. The museum opened in June 1990 inside a former Montaner i Simon publishing house designed by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. That building was constructed between 1880 and 1885, early in Catalan Modernisme, and is noted for being the first in this part of the city to integrate an industrial typology—pairing exposed brick with iron. …
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