The Wall
Communication on the Wall – Influenced by the works of Antonio Tapies
Mixed Media on Rives BFK paper
7 1/2″ x 9 3/8″ x 3/4″
2010
In 2008, I started to create a book influenced by a Spanish artist Antonio Tapies whose works were often said to be like “Walls”. I asked myself what the meaning of Walls was to me, and I put all my thoughts about walls and images related to walls including primitive sign languages on sand and paint mixtures background to complete this book.
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Antoni Tapies’ paintings are often considered to be walls, a view he does not completely share. Tapies has said: ” painting is simply a support that invites the viewer to participate in the much broader game of a thousand and one visions and feelings”. I started to think about why his paintings attracted me, why his paintings were considered to be walls, and what a wall means to me.
Tapies has suggested hundreds of meanings that can be derived from a wall. A many of those that influence me are, Separation, connection, witness to the passing of time, a sign of human imprints, a sense of landscape, meditation on a cosmic theme, Silence, natural element, a sense of struggle, trace of love, human remains, echoes in space, forms that suggest natural rhythm, of effort, of concentration.
Ancient peoples built walls to protect their areas. They made marks on these walls. And people continue to make marks on walls. A wall communicates with marks. I feel that it communicates itself to us from standing in space.
Mixed Media on Rives BFK paper
7 1/2″ x 9 3/8″ x 3/4″
2010
In 2008, I started to create a book influenced by a Spanish artist Antonio Tapies whose works were often said to be like “Walls”. I asked myself what the meaning of Walls was to me, and I put all my thoughts about walls and images related to walls including primitive sign languages on sand and paint mixtures background to complete this book.
Text:
Antoni Tapies’ paintings are often considered to be walls, a view he does not completely share. Tapies has said: ” painting is simply a support that invites the viewer to participate in the much broader game of a thousand and one visions and feelings”. I started to think about why his paintings attracted me, why his paintings were considered to be walls, and what a wall means to me.
Tapies has suggested hundreds of meanings that can be derived from a wall. A many of those that influence me are, Separation, connection, witness to the passing of time, a sign of human imprints, a sense of landscape, meditation on a cosmic theme, Silence, natural element, a sense of struggle, trace of love, human remains, echoes in space, forms that suggest natural rhythm, of effort, of concentration.
Ancient peoples built walls to protect their areas. They made marks on these walls. And people continue to make marks on walls. A wall communicates with marks. I feel that it communicates itself to us from standing in space.
