Painting n.° XLV, 1957

The art of Tàpies has often been associated with the material practices of Burri’s painting, according to a principle of shared objective realism and the purification of reality, which can be applied both to Burri’s Sacchi (burlap pieces) and Plastiche (plastic pieces) and to Tàpies Muri (wall pieces). But while this is perhaps another reason to have a work by the artist in the CRT Collection, in dialogue with the GAM collection, it is the absolute specificity of his varied research that necessitates his presence in a survey of works that acknowledges the pictorial experiences of postwar Europe. [...]