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...
Picasso and the Exodus, A Spanish History of Art in Resistance followed the exhibition Guernica that took place at the Musée National Picasso in Paris in 2018. The exhibition traces the history of the involvement and commitment to politics of Picasso and his fellow...
Widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent organization of fine art, antiques and design, TEFAF recently opened on March 16. With 279 participants grouped by specialty, this fair offers the best works available on the art market. A number of press articles are already...
In February 1939, the fall of Barcelona causes a major exodus. Close to half a million people flew because of Franco’s troops and crossed the Pyrenees. It is called the Retirada. Clavé is one of these refugees who were interned into a camp in the Eastern Pyrenees...
Since 2004 the collection of Karl Im Obersteg (1883-1969) and his son Jürg Im Obersteg (1914-1983) is on deposit at the Kunstmuseum in Basel. The collection is comprised of 190 works, paintings, sculptures, works on paper as well as a number of artist letters. Major...
At the occasion of « Picasso Méditerranée 2017-2019 », the Museum of Vence introduces us to an exhibition presenting the influence of Picasso with a new approach (till October 28). This exhibition showcases sculptures from the Master created in the 50s and 60s (which...
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...
El principio Asia : China, Japón e India y el arte contemporáneo en España (1957-2017) “ The principle of Asia : China, Japan and India and contemporary art in Spain (1957-2017)” is the title of the exhibition which just started at the Foundation Juan March with the...
This exhibition organised by the BnF, which presents around fifty prints from 1955 to 1995, is a good overview of Clavé’s printed work. These lithographs, etchings, aquatints, carborundum, embossings, collages and lithographed brown papers enable us to apprehend forty...