No need to see his entire façade, its two imposing towers or the silhouette of the chevet of the church to immediately identify the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris. The gaze and the melancholic pose of the horned monster, which maliciously sticks its tongue out leaves...
It is greetings season! Health, happiness, prosperity…This tradition of rather conventional wishes is dating back a few centuries. The format of the greeting card that we know today is more recent, since it appears in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole decides to sell a...
“365 jours après” forms part of the last works of Antoni Clavé. Completed in 2002, it has the vivacity and the freedom of a young creator of 89 who no longer has anything to prove. From Duchamp, Picasso, the collages and assemblages of surrealist objects, the 20th...
The exhibition “Clavé artisan de la matière” has just closed its doors at the Rebeyrolle exhibition space in Eymoutiers. We are taking down the paintings and preparing to wrap up sculptures… A chapter is closing on this wonderful moment of sharing around the works. A...
Fiac, YIA Art Fair, Art Elysée… This week the autumn fairs are presenting their visitors with a large selection of modern and contemporary work. It’s a perfect opportunity to see some of Antoni Clavé’s works! Two works dating from 1958 and 1960 are being shown at Art...
With “Avec des étoiles I” (“With the stars I”) Clavé surpassed his memories, his work on New York and extended his personal universe. This work gathers together the preferred mediums of the artist: the assembling of collages, torn paper, embossing, diverse materials,...
In October 1989, Antoni Clavé spent around ten days in New York, not for any exhibition but rather for leisure: he wanted to wander around, take photos, shoot films, and observe. This trip inspired him. After his return, he worked on a series of paintings, all grouped...
In 1986, Clavé travelled to Japan for a second time where his works were being exhibited in Tokyo, Osaka and Hakone. He found the country as fascinating as the last time he’d visited in 1972: Japan had entered a modernity that was dreamt about by the Europe of the...
In 1980 Clavé was asked to create a large-scale painting for the Barajas Airport in Madrid. The work he produced was monumental, 3 metres high by 9 metres wide, and can still be seen in Terminal 2 today. This commission was the beginning of Clavé’s taming of...
With Don Servando et l’autre the spectator enters directly into Clavé’s universe: his mid 70s figuration was getting round constraints, the composition experienced imbalances, technique and matter cast off the artistic codes then in place and there was no attempt to...