Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)

‘...I tried, rather like Miró, to lend everything, even the most insignificant subjects and motifs, something in the nature of a cosmic aspect and scope; all the elements correspond with each other in gigantic constellations. Figures, trees, mountains, they were all like sources of pure energy, a pure glow that suffused everything... Everything formed and dissolved again in a single pantheistic flux in which the grandiose space of the galaxies was interpenetrated with microscopically small structures. Even the colours serve less to make bodies clearly visible; rather, they were full of intrinsic life, phosphorescent sources, glowing miasmas.’ – Antoni Tàpies
(Tàpies quoted in A. Franzke, Tàpies, Münich 1992, p.48.)