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Following the sun: exercising the gaze from the living legacy of Tàpies
The Tàpies Museum is hosting a cycle curated by Carolina Ciuti who, in dialogue with Antoni Tàpies and Àngel Jové, proposes rethinking perception and inhabiting the museum as an open space of contemporary experience.
The exhibition of Antoni Tàpies and the perpetual movement of the wall is joined by Àngel Jové. From Intactu to the Tàpies Museum , in dialogue with the cycle Seguint el sol. Destopant la mirada , active from March 21 to December 12. This third edition of the program, conceived as a space for exploring contemporary artistic perception and practice, is programmed and curated by Carolina Ciuti.
The program unfolds over several Saturdays between March and December 2026, with a set of interventions that take place at different times of the calendar. It begins on March 21 at 12 pm with Blanca Arias, and continues on April 18, also at 12 pm, with Laura Llaneli. On May 16 at 12 pm, the joint session of Blanca Tolsá and Albert Tarrats takes place. The cycle continues on June 19 at 7 pm with Raquel G. Ibáñez, and resumes after the summer on September 19 at 7 pm with Anna Irina Russell. In the fall, the sessions continue on October 17 at 12 pm with Rae Teitelbaum, on November 21 at 12 pm with Mireia Molina Costa, and culminate on December 12 at 12 pm with Ariadna Guiteras.
In The Game of Knowing How to Look , published in 1967 in Cavall Fort , Antoni Tàpies proposed exercising the gaze as an active and open practice, capable of going beyond immediacy to expand our field of vision and knowledge. Looking, for the artist, was a game in the deepest sense: a way of awakening consciousness and intensifying the relationship with the world.
This idea is particularly visible in the controversy surrounding Mitjó , initially rejected by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in 1991. The work questioned the limits of taste and cultural hierarchies, claiming the poetic force of the everyday and insignificant. Beyond the object, the debate highlighted tensions about how to look, what to legitimize and how to inhabit a cultural institution.
In this context, the third edition of Following the Sun takes up Tàpies' thinking to understand the museum as an open and transforming space, where the gaze becomes a shared practice that can expand and generate new forms of experience.
