This fourth volume of the graphic work of Antoni Tàpies contains, in the bilingual Spanish-English edition, prints created between 1987 and 1994, as well as a short annexe of previously created works which were omitted from earlier volumes. For ease of use, an alphabetical index of print titles has been incorporated, as in the third edition, giving year and catalogue number. This present edition also introduces an index of works arranged alphabetically by publisher giving city, year of execution and catalogue number.
This publication is based on the video installations by John Akomfran (Accra, Ghana, 1951) 'Vertigo Sea' (2015) and 'Peripeteia' (2012) presented at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona.0Both have in common the motif of water that Akomfrah often uses to highlight issues arising from human movements, from colonial conquests and the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary migratory flows. In both works, nature is presented as a setting for events, actions and moods. And both also use representations of actual figures from history to show the harshness of particular historical episodes.0//00La presente publicación se centra en las instalaciones de vídeo de John Akomfrah (Accra, Ghana, 1957) 'Vertigo Sea' (2015) y 'Peripeteia' (2012), exhibidas ambas en la Fundació Antoni Tàpies de Barcelona. Una y otra comparten el motivo del agua, un elemento que Akomfrah suele utilizar para plantear los problemas derivados de los movimientos humanos, desde las conquistas coloniales y el comercio transatlántico de esclavos hasta los flujos migratorios contemporáneos. En estas dos obras de Akomfrah se entrecruzan implicaciones sociales, culturales y políticas, y ambas comparten la reivindicación de personajes históricos para poner en evidencia la crudeza de algunos episodios de la historia00Exhibition: Fundació Antonio Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain (05.02.-06.06.2021).
