"You probably won’t recognize the Fundació Antoni Tàpies as a museum from the exterior, with its mass of crazy wire on top. But that’s actually a work called Cloud and Chair , a chair suspended in a mass of swirly metal "clouds." The painter/sculptor was born in Barcelona, began experimenting with art after falling ill as a law student, and became one of the most divisive and prominent artists of the 1940s and ‘50s. Tàpies’s work cycled through symbolism and surrealism, but he remained obsessed with materials – earth, dust, sand, clay, foam rubber – and elevating mundane and even profane objects." - Gemma Askham
