In 1986, Antoni Clavé travels to Japan for the second time, where exhibitions of his work are held in Tokyo, Osaka and Hakone. As in 1972, the country fascinated him; having entered full force into a modernity that Europe in the 1980s could only dream of. Despite the...
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In Clavé's work, the figuration of the mid-1970s abstracts itself from all constraints, the composition risks imbalance, the technique and the material play with the artistic codes that were in force at the time as much as with any attempt at seduction. The face is...
Without the black stripe in the foreground, the format would have been a square. Antoni Clavé invites us straight away in a world of illusion: fake square and pleated fabrics. Half of the painting is indeed composed of a trompe l’œil: a “creased paper” as art...
It is not the first time that Antoni Clavé creates a link with the heritage left behind by Goya. With his first works as a lithograph or with themes such as bullfighting or sorcery, Clavé offers compositions inspired by the Spanish Master, of which Lettres d’Espagne...
In 1945 Clavé illustrated Carmen written by Mérimée, and edited by Jean Porson. A year later, the editor asks him what text he would be keen on illustrating if he were to participate in a book for bibliophiles. Without hesitating Clavé replies “Candide”. He explains...
All Souls’ Day happens on November 2 and is the next day after All Saints’ Day.The calendar is the perfect pretext for us to talk about this sculpture by Clavé. This work is unusual, especially since Clavé refers only rarely to religion in his work’s titles....
The Diada commemorates the fall of Barcelona, when the troops of the King of Spain took over the city after 14 months of siege, on the 11th of September 1714. It is the very last battle in the course of the War of Spanish Succession, which opposed from 1701 to 1714,...
In 1971, a few exhibitions celebrated the 500th anniversary of the birth of Albrecht Dürer. He is seen as the first major German artist in History; he was both a painter and an engraver embodying Renaissance just as much as Raphael, Lenoardo or Michelangelo. On top of...
Clavé uses the technique of the assemblage in his œuvre sculpté and œuvre gravé. It consists in assembling ripped, embossed and juxtaposed papers with ropes, strings and nails, these motifs and matters adhering to the carborundum. The carborundum and the goffering are...