A few weeks before the exhibition " Antoni Clavé - Estampes " starts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Editions Skira published in December 2017 the Catalogue raisonné of the printed work. It is comprised of close to 520 printed works and 22 books for...
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,...
Last month, a book about bullfighting was published. Written by Ozvan Bottois, this book compiles the iconographic, historical and poetic approaches, to show how relentless the artists were to tackle bullfighting in their works. Barcelo, Botero, Dalí, Doré, Goya,...
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...
In 1976, Antoni Clavé completes the book for Bibliophiles “La Gloire des Rois”, by Saint John Perse. He had been asked to work on this project some 14 years earlier, and this is the occasion for him to show how he understands and interprets the poems by Saint John...
From the mid-eighties Clavé is known worldwide. The city council of Barcelona (Ajuntament) suggests he picks an area in the city so that he creates an artwork for his native town. Clavé chooses the Parc de la Ciutadella, a place full of memories for him (Sunday walks...
In 1965 in Barcelona, the Catalan painter and engraver Vila-Casas initiates Clavé into engraving. Clavé uses copper or zinc plates, and also learns about aquatint. Etching and aquatint are indirect engraving processes: the acid attacks the exposed metal, while tools...