Fundació Antoni Tàpies

The Fundació is a pioneering Modernista building of the early 1880s, as well as a homage to, and by, the elder statesman of contemporary Catalan art, Antoni Tàpies. The collection spans the arc of his creations (with more than 800 works) but only a fraction of these is ever on show, always in conjunction with other temporary exhibitions. In the main exhibition area (level 1, upstairs), you can see an ever-changing selection of around 20 of Tàpies’ works, from early self-portraits of the 1940s to grand items like Jersei Negre (Black Jumper; 2008), in which the outline of a man with a hard-on is topped with a pasted-on black sweater. Level 2 hosts a small space for temporary exhibitions. Rotating exhibitions take place in the basement levels.