Coinciding with the closing days of the exhibition Tàpies. From Within, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya will be presenting an intervention in the rooms of the permanent collection which will show how Romanesque art was one of the underlying art forms in the training, inspiration and sensibility of Antoni Tàpies.

A series of exhibition points will invite the visitor to reflect on the relationship between the work of Antoni Tàpies and the art of this period. The elements forming the backbone of this itinerary are textual citations by Tàpies or by contemporaries of his, with some works from the artist’s private collection.

Tradition, Catalanness, the wall, material, reflections on magic and the sacred or the meaning of art are profound aspects in the work of Antoni Tàpies which are not only not foreign to Romanesque art but which the artist himself has associated with the ‘Romanesque Museum of Barcelona’.

The aim of the exhibition, then, is to offer a contemporary look at medieval art, and at the same time to enrich Tàpies’s universe with elements linking it to the art of our past.