-The catalogue brings together all the works presented in the exhibition, works from various international museums and collectors, which reveal a lesser known aspect of the artist, thus adding to knowledge about the conceptual art that the artist Antoni T�pies developed throughout his highly productive life -Accompanied by texts written by both the curator and an internationally renowned art critic or historian, as well as texts by other artists about the master -The documentary annex will contain a glossary, a chronology and a biography which reflect the latest research on the artist The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is organizing Antoni T�pies, from Object to Sculpture , an exhibition devoted to the lesser known facets of the painter: his sculptures and assemblages. This is the first complete analysis of the sculptures and objects created by T�pies, encompassing the whole of his artistic production for almost five decades. The exhibition is conceived as a chronological analysis of T�pies' sculptural work and as a methodical examination of his treatment of space, revealing conceptual genealogies which locate sculpture, the object and assemblage on the front line of the artist's investigations. The show is curated by �lvaro Rodr�guez Fominaya , an internationally renowned curator of exhibitions on contemporary art. Currently a curator at New York's Guggenheim Museum, from 2008-2011, he served as Executive Director-Curator of the Para/Site Art Space, the main independent center for contemporary art in Hong Kong, and worked for more than six years at the Centro Atl�ntico de Arte Moderno in Spain, where he was Acting Director from 2006-07.
-The catalogue brings together all the works presented in the exhibition, works from various international museums and collectors, which reveal a lesser known aspect of the artist, thus adding to knowledge about the conceptual art that the artist Antoni T�pies developed throughout his highly productive life -Accompanied by texts written by both the curator and an internationally renowned art critic or historian, as well as texts by other artists about the master -The documentary annex will contain a glossary, a chronology and a biography which reflect the latest research on the artist The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is organizing Antoni T�pies, from Object to Sculpture , an exhibition devoted to the lesser known facets of the painter: his sculptures and assemblages. This is the first complete analysis of the sculptures and objects created by T�pies, encompassing the whole of his artistic production for almost five decades. The exhibition is conceived as a chronological analysis of T�pies' sculptural work and as a methodical examination of his treatment of space, revealing conceptual genealogies which locate sculpture, the object and assemblage on the front line of the artist's investigations. The show is curated by �lvaro Rodr�guez Fominaya , an internationally renowned curator of exhibitions on contemporary art. Currently a curator at New York's Guggenheim Museum, from 2008-2011, he served as Executive Director-Curator of the Para/Site Art Space, the main independent center for contemporary art in Hong Kong, and worked for more than six years at the Centro Atl�ntico de Arte Moderno in Spain, where he was Acting Director from 2006-07.