Antoni Tàpies i Puig, the first Marquis of Tàpies, was born on December 13, 1923 in Barcelona. He began his artistic experiments during a long convalescence from a serious illness. His growing dedication to drawing and painting led him to abandon his university studies. In the 1940s, he exhibited his strongly individualistic works, which stood out in the artistic scene of the time. He co-founded the magazine Dau al Set in 1948. Influenced by Miró and Klee, he then developed the iconographic factor and the magical theme. Gradually, he incorporated geometric elements and studies of color, resulting in an interest in matter that is expressed through canvases with intense texture and great expressive and communicative capacity. With these works, Tàpies gained international recognition in the mid-1950s. From the 1960s onwards, he incorporated new iconographic elements (writing signs, anthropomorphic elements, footprints, and symbols alluding to the reality of Catalonia) and technical procedures (new surfaces, use of everyday objects and varnish). Tàpies' pictorial language has evolved since then, resulting in a diverse and productive artistic output admired worldwide. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and the Kunsthaus in Zurich, among many others. In addition to his artistic activities, Antoni Tàpies also pursued writing and published several works, including "La pràctica de l'art" (The Practice of Art, 1970), "L'art contra l'estètica" (Art Against Aesthetics, 1974), "Memòria personal" (Personal Memory, 1977), "La realitat com a art" (Reality as Art, 1982), "Per un art modern i progressista" (For a Modern and Progressive Art, 1985), "Valor de l'art" (Value of Art, 1993), and "L'art i els seus llocs" (Art and its Places, 1999). Antoni Tàpies created the Antoni Tàpies Foundation in 1984 with the aim of promoting the study and knowledge of contemporary art, with a special focus on