Clyfford Still

Born on November 30. Will begin to teach himself drawing while still young.

Moves to New York and enrolls in the Art Students League, only to withdraw immediately, feeling that he has nothing to learn there.

Studies at Spokane University in Washington, but drops out after a year.

Reenrolls at Spokane University, this time earning a degree in art two years later.

Begins teaching fine arts at Washington State College in Pullman, a post he will hold until 1941. Writes his master&#8217;s thesis there, in 1935.

Spends this summer and the next at the Trask Foundation in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Takes part in the annual exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York.

Still&#8217;s first solo exhibition takes place at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Begins teaching at the Richmond Professional Institute in Richmond, Virginia, which he will continue to do for two years.

Moves to New York. Mark Rothko introduces him to Peggy Guggenheim, who invites him to take part in the Autumn Salon at her gallery, Art of This Century, in New York.

Has a solo exhibition at Art of This Century. Returns to and begins to teach at the California School of Fine Arts, where he will stay for four years.

Holds two solo shows, one at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the other at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York.

With Mark Rothko, David Hare, William Baziotes, and Robert Motherwell, works on establishing the short- lived school Subjects of the Artist (it was closed the following year).

Presents his work at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York and Metart Gallery in San Francisco. Moves back to New York.

Exhibits at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York.

Teaches for a year at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Shows seven paintings in the exhibition Fifteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A seven-year period begins in which he will not exhibit his work.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, holds a major retrospective of Still&#8217;s work, featuring seventy-two pieces selected by the artist himself.

Teaches a course as a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Moves to a large farm in Westminster, Maryland. 1962 Named a member of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.

Exhibits his work at the inauguration of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Donates thirty works to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery exhibits its collection of paintings by the artist and dedicates a room permanently installed with his work.

The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore awards Still an honorary doctorate of fine arts.

The Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in New York exhibits a series of paintings it has acquired from the artist.

Participates in the Biennial Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Receives the Award of Merit in painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, but turns down the monetary portion of the award. North Dakota State University in Fargo awards Still an honorary doctorate of fine arts.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art inaugurates a gallery devoted to paintings by Still. Receives the Skowhegan Medal for Painting from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Donates twenty-eight paintings to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Thirty-six of his works are displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts by the San Francisco Art Institute.

Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounts an exhibition of Still&#8217;s work.

The University of Maryland awards Still an honorary doctorate of fine arts. Dies on June 23. In July the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organize two exhibitions in homage to Still.

Still, Clyfford

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Clyfford Still’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Still, Clyfford | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Antoni Tàpies

Develops a serious lung illness involving a lengthy convalescence.

Attends the Universitat de Barcelona, where he studies law, later abandoning his studies just before completing his degree. Studies drawing at the Acadèmia Valls in Barcelona for two months.

Exhibits at the I Saló d&#8217;Octubre in Barcelona. Meets Joan Miró, with whom he establishes a close friendship.

Participates in Un aspecto de la pintura catalana at the Instituto Francés in Barcelona.

Has his first solo show, at Galeries Laietanes in Barcelona. Participates in the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. With the help of a grant, moves to Paris, where he meets Pablo Picasso.

Participates in the XXVI Biennale di Venezia.

First trip to the United States on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. Participates in the II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo.

Meets Michel Tapié, one the most thrilling friendships in his career.

Participates in the IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo.

Participates in the XXIX Biennale di Venezia, where he receives the UNESCO Prize. Awarded first prize at the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Meets Marcel Duchamp.

Participates in the exhibitions Before Picasso, After Miró at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and New Spanish Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York.

A retrospective of Tàpies&#8217;s work is presented at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, followed by others at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Kunsthaus Zürich.

Exhibits eight large-format works at Documenta 3 in Kassel, Germany.

The Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen in Saint Gall, Switzerland, organizes a retrospective of the artist&#8217;s graphic work. Establishes a relationship with Galerie Maeght in Paris, where he will show regularly in subsequent years.

His production of three-dimensional objects intensifies.

Publishes a compilation of his writings, entitled La pràctica de l&#8217;art.

The Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris holds a retrospective of his work, which later travels to Geneva and Charleroi, Belgium.

Retrospective exhibitions of Tàpies&#8217;s work are held at the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebaek, Denmark, and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Publishes the book L&#8217;art contra l&#8217;estètica.

The Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, holds a retrospective of his work. The exhibition later travels to the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.

A traveling retrospective is presented at several North American museums, beginning at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and ending at the Musée d&#8217;Art Contemporain de Montréal. Publishes the autobiographical book Memòria personal.

Elected an honorary member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Retrospective exhibitions of Tàpies&#8217;s work are held at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Awarded the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Receives an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. 
Begins working with fireclay in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

Named Officier de l&#8217;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Receives the Medalla d&#8217;Or from the government of Catalonia. Monument homenatge a Picasso is unveiled.

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is legally founded in Barcelona.

Receives the Prix National de Peinture in France. Publishes Per un art modern i progressista.

The Wiener Künstlerhaus in Vienna presents an anthological exhibition of his work that later travels to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Starts producing bronze sculptures.

Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universitat de Barcelona.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents a retrospective exhibition of his work that later travels to the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Named an honorary member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Receives the Premio Príncipe de Asturias for the arts. Presents his monumental sculpture Núvol i cadira at the headquarters of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, which will start functioning soon.

Tàpies. Comunicació sobre el mur opens at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and later travels to the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain, and the Serpentine Gallery in London. Named an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Creates the installation Rinzen for the Spanish Pavilion at the XLV Biennale di Venezia, for which he receives the Leone d&#8217;Oro. Publishes Valor de l&#8217;art.

The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris holds a retrospective of his work.

A retrospective exhibition of Tàpies&#8217;s work opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Receives the Premi Nacional d&#8217;Arts Plàstiques, awarded by the government of Catalonia.

A major exhibition of Tàpies&#8217;s work travels to several museums in Japan.

El tatuatge i el cos, an exhibition organized by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, features the artist&#8217;s works on paper from the previous fifty years.

Publishes El arte y sus lugares, which includes texts by the artist and pictures of art works of different periods and cultures selected by the artist.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents a retrospective exhibition of Tàpies&#8217;s work that later travels to the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris presents a retrospective of Tàpies&#8217;s graphic work. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the exhibition Chillida/Tàpies: Matter and Visual Thought.

Awarded the Premio Nacional de Grabado y Arte Gráfico by the Calcografía Nacional-Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

Exhibits at the Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany. Awarded the Premio Velázquez de las Artes Plásticas by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports. Receives an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

Antoni Tàpies. Retrospectiva opens at the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona and later travels to the Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español in Valladolid, Spain. Exhibits at the Fundación Marcelino Botín in Santander, Spain, and at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo holds a retrospective exhibition of Tàpies&#8217;s work. Receives the Lissone Prize for his life&#8217;s work.

Takes part in Homage to Chillida at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Named Commandeur de la Légion d&#8217;honneur by the French Republic.

The EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art inaugurates the first retrospective exhibition of Tàpies work in Finland.

Tàpies&#8217;s most recent works are shown at Galería Toni Tàpies in Barcelona, Galería Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid and the Waddington Galleries in London. The Galerie Lelong in Zurich, Switzerland, exhibits a selection of drawings and sketches from the 1990s and 2000s. This exhibition later tours to Galerie Lelong in Paris.

Fundació Tàpies re-opens with the exhibition Antoni Tàpies. The Places of Art. Mitjó is installed on the terrace at the foundation; the sculpture was designed for the Oval gallery at the Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, but caused a stir and was not installed in its intended location. Volume I of the complete writings of Antoni Tàpies is published in Catalan and Spanish, Memoria personal. Fragmento para una autobiografía (Obra escrita completa).

Galería Nuevo Arte, Seville, inaugurates the exhibition Antoni Tàpies, Graphic Work 1974-1994, and Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona, inaugurates Antoni Tàpies. Colection. His work is featured in the group exhibition Olor Color. Química, Arte y Pedagogía at Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona.

He died on February 6 in Barcelona

Fundació Antoni Tàpies holds the exhibition Contra Tàpies and Tàpies. Des de l’interior, the latter in collaboration with MNAC Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. 
During the LV Biennale di Venezia, the Palazzo Fortuny presents the exhibition Tàpies. Lo sguardo dell’artista. 
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Antoni Tàpies. From Object to Sculpture, 1964–2009.

Tàpies, Antoni

Ambrosia

Antoni Tapie’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Tàpies, Antoni | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Francesc Torres

Moves to Paris and enrolls at the École des Beaux- Arts.

Works as sculptor Piotr Kowalski&#8217;s assistant.

Returns to Barcelona and completes compulsory military service.

Has his first solo exhibition, entitled Two Exercises, at the Illinois Center in Chicago. Also has exhibitions at the Francis Parker School in Chicago and the Evanston Arts Center in Evanston, Illinois.

Moves to New York, where he will live until 2001 (except for the two years he spent in Berlin). Galería Redor in Madrid organizes an exhibition of Torres&#8217;s work.

Torres&#8217;s Almost Like Sleeping is displayed at Artists Space in New York. Exhibits at 112 Greene Street Gallery in New York. Takes part in the Biennale de Paris.

Presents his work at Galerie St. Petri in Lund, Sweden; the Akumulatory 2 in Poznan, Poland; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Friedrichsfehn, Germany. Participates in the XXXVII Biennale di Venezia.

Residual Regions, an exhibition of Torres&#8217;s work, is shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art presents Residual Regions.

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents a solo show entitled The Head of the Dragon.

Exhibits at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and at Elise Meyer Gallery in New York. Receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He will receive two further NEA grants, in 1988 and 1993.

Damon Brandt Gallery in New York and the Sala Metrònom in Barcelona present exhibitions of Torres&#8217;s work. Torres&#8217;s video When Boys Play Rough&#8230; is projected on an electronic screen in Times Square in New York.

Lives in Berlin for two years on an academic exchange grant from the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

Takes part in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He will participate in the Whitney Biennial again in 1991 and 1993.

Exhibits his work Destiny, Entropy and Junk at the Capp Street Project in San Francisco.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid organizes a retrospective of his work entitled La cabeza del dragón. Receives the Premi Nacional de Belles Arts from the Catalan government.

Exhibits at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Bohen Foundation in New York, and the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana in Buenos Aires.

Creates Demasiado tarde para Goya, a multimedia montage with seven channels, including video, sound, and a sculpture.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City exhibits Torres&#8217;s Demasiado tarde para Goya.

Takes part in Los límites del museo at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.

Exhibits at the Centro del Carme of the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain.

The solo exhibition The Repository of Absent Flesh is shown at the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This exhibition catalog contains an essay by critic Arthur C. Danto.

Torres&#8217;s Demasiado tarde para Goya is included in Spanish and Basque Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Three installations by Torres are presented at the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, in an exhibition titled Circuitos cerrados.

Moves back to Barcelona from New York. Exhibits at Galeria Metrònom in Barcelona. Curates the exhibition Memoria de un espejismo: Los Pegasos deportivos y de competición de los años cincuenta at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona.

Appointed president of the Associació d&#8217;artistes visuals de Catalunya, a position he will hold until 2005.

Takes part in the exhibition Tinieblas at the Espai d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Castelló in Castelló, Spain, but removes his work in protest against alleged censorship by Valencia authorities.

Torres&#8217;s work is featured in El arte sucede: Origen de las prácticas conceptuales en España (1965-1980) at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Work by Torres is included in Salvador Dalí and a Century of Art from Spain: Picasso to Plensa at the Salvador Dalí Museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and Catharsis: Rituals of Purification at Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain.

The solo exhibition Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep is shown at the International Center of Photography in New York. Torres&#8217;s work is included in MACBA at Frankfurter Kunstverein: A Selection of Works from the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt.

The Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents Francesc Torres: Da capo. Torres&#8217;s work is featured in The Discreet Charm of Technology: Arts in Spain at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition later travels to the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo in Badajoz, Spain.

Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Vitoria, Spain, presents the exhibition Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep: Francesc Torres . Participates in the group exhibition From Private to Public: Collections at the Guggenheim at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The sculptural installation Lluvia uniforme o más de una gota de agua is presented at the 20th anniversary of Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid. The artist exhibits his work in an exhibition called Francesc Torres (en colaboración) at Galería Ana Vilaseco, in A Coruña, Galicia.

The artist gives a lecture at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) as part of a course entitled Los lenguajes itinerantes de la fotografía. Participates in the exhibition Ejercicios de memoria at the Centre d&#8217;Art La Panera, Lleida.
Torres’s work can be seen as part of Selections from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao II.
Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17 opens at the Imperial War Museum in London, and then travels to the International Center of Photography in New York and CentroCentro-Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid.

What Does History Know of Nail Biting? opens at the David Museum, Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA, and later travels to Centro Cultural Puertas de Castilla in Murcia and the Museo de Teruel, Spain.

The exhibition of works by Francesc Torres, Què en sap, la història, de mossegar-se les ungles? and Santiago Ydáñez, Troquel, is held at Centre d’Art la Panera in Lleida, Spain, and later travels to Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Spain.

The exhibition Instalaciones de sobremesa, at Galería T20 in Murcia, includes works that have never been shown before.
Francesc Torres. La caja entrópica [El museo de objetos perdidos] can be seen at MNAC – Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Shows huge installation The Hermetic Bell (La campana hermética) at MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain.

Torres, Francesc

Too Late for Goya

Francesc Torres’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Torres, Francesc | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Cy Twombly

Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Continues his studies at the Art Students League in New York, where he will meet Robert Rauschenberg.

Enrolls at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina, where his teachers are Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Ben Shahn. Exhibits his work in a two-person show with Gandy Brodie at Kootz Gallery in New York.

Travels around Europe and Africa with Robert Rauschenberg.

Works as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army. Holds his first exhibition in Italy, at Galleria Via della Croce 71 in Rome. Has a two-person exhibition with Robert Rauschenberg at the Stable Gallery in New York.

Begins to create his first abstract sculptures, which he paints white.

Exhibits for the first time at Galleria la Tartaruga in Rome.

Begins to create large-scale works, using text and numbers and including multiple classical references in them. Makes almost no sculptures between 1959 and 1976.

Exhibits for the first time at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.

Participates in the XXXII Biennale di Venezia.

Has his first museum exhibition, at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany.

The Milwaukee Art Center organizes the first retrospective of Twombly&#8217;s work.

Two major retrospective exhibitions of his work are held in Switzerland: the Kunsthalle Bern presents paintings, while the Kunstmuseum Basel shows drawings.

Exhibits at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and at the San Francisco Museum of Art.

The Musée d&#8217;Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents an exhibition of Twombly&#8217;s drawings. Begins working in sculpture again, seventeen years after he did the last one.

Participates in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany.

Cy Twombly: Paintings and Drawings, 1954-1977 is shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Exhibits at Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany.

Participates in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.

Work from the previous ten years is shown at CAPC, Musée d&#8217;Art Contemporain de Bordeaux.

A retrospective of Twombly&#8217;s paintings, drawings, and sculptures opens at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. The show later travels to the Kunsthaus Zürich in Zurich, Switzerland and the Musée national d&#8217;art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York organizes a retrospective of Twombly&#8217;s work that later travels to the Menil Collection in Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Receives the Kaiserring prize from the city of Goslar, Germany.

Twombly&#8217;s work is exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Receives the Praemium Imperiale for painting, awarded by the Japan Art Association.

The Kunstmuseum Basel mounts a show of Twombly&#8217;s sculptures that will later travel to the Menil Collection in Houston and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Participates in the XLIX Biennale di Venezia, where he receives the Leone d&#8217;Oro in recognition of his life&#8217;s work.

Receives the Premio Internacional Julio González from the Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern in Valencia, Spain.

A retrospective of Twombly&#8217;s works on paper opens at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Over the following two years, it will travel to the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Musée National d&#8217;Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Serpentine Gallery in London, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and Menil Collection in Houston.

The exhibition Lepanto opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Shows works on paper at Gagosian Gallery in New York. An archive is created in Rome to catalog Twombly&#8217;s works on paper.

The Alte Pinakothek in Munich presents the exhibition Cy Twombly Skulpturen (1992-2005). Awarded the McKim Medal by the American Academy in Rome.

Exhibits at Gagosian Gallery in London; Thomas Ammann Fine Art in Zurich; Schirmer/Mosel Showroom in Munich; Collection Lambert in Avignon, France, and Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz, Austria. Begins a painting for the ceiling of the Salle des Bronzes at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, to be completed in 2010.

A retrospective titled Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons , curated by Nicholas Serota, opens at Tate Modern in London. In collaboration with Tate Modern, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao organizes the exhibition Cy Twombly, curated by Carmen Giménez. A version of the exhibition held in London travels to the Galleria Nazionale d&#8217;Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome in 2009. Exhibits the Lepanto series at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, before it is permanently installed at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich.

The Museum Brandhorst in Munich opens. The collection&#8217;s many important works by Twombly are installed on the museum&#8217;s second floor, which is devoted entirely to the artist. Exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna.

Named Chevalier of the Légion d&#8217;Honneur, France. Paints the ceiling for the Salle des Bronzes, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, is inaugurated with an exhibition by the artist. His work is featured in group exhibitions at a number of museums: Institut Valencià d&#8217;Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, exhibits seven newly acquired sculptures by the artist. Collection Lambert in Avignon, France, presents the final exhibition produced by the artist before his death. The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, presents the exhibition Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Paintings. Participates in the group exhibition Made in Italy at the Gagosian Gallery, Rome. Dies in July at the age of 83.

Twombly, Cy

Nine Discourses on Commodus

Cy Twombly’s biography and works on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Biografía y obras: Twombly, Cy | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Darío Urzay

Enrolls in the faculty of fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco in Leioa, where he will earn a degree in 1982. Participates in the Certamen de Arte Vasco Navarro, organized by the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.

Together with other artists, organizes the exhibition Minimalismo y nueva figuración at the Caja Laboral- Euskadiko Kutxa in Vitoria, Spain.

Receives a creative grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Takes part in Arteder 81.

Urzay&#8217;s work is featured in Artistas vascos entre el realismo y la figuración, 1970-1982 at the Museo Municipal in Madrid. Wins the prize for painting at the III Bienal de Artes Plásticas de Vitoria in Vitoria, Spain. Receives a grant from the Basque government.

Has his first solo exhibition at the Aula de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros Municipal in Bilbao. Urzay&#8217;s work is exhibited at Galerie Étienne de Causans in Paris. Wins first prize for painting at Gure Artea 1983 contest, sponsored by the Basque government. Accepts a teaching post in the faculty of fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, a position he will hold for five years.

Takes part in the Salon de Montrouge in Paris.

Urzay&#8217;s work is featured in Pintura vasca contemporánea,1910-1985 at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián, Spain.

Invited to spend a year as an artist-in-residence at Delfina Studios in London, where his work undergoes a marked change, clearly influenced by the work of Gerhard Richter. Exhibits at Galería Gamarra y Garrigues in Madrid and Galería Windsor Kulturgintza in Bilbao. Takes part in the IV Internationale Triennale der Zeichung in Nuremberg. Urzay&#8217;s work is featured in Pintura española: la generación de los 80 at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava in Vitoria, Spain; the exhibition travels to several cities in South America.

Exhibits at Riverside Studios in London and once again at Galería Gamarra y Garrigues in Madrid. Moves to New York on a grant provided by the Basque government. 1990 Presents his work at Galería Bretón in Valencia, Spain.

Exhibits at Galería Fernando Silió in Santander, Spain. Urzay&#8217;s work is included in Pintores vascos ante el gran formato, 1886-1991 at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao and in Confrontaciones: arte último británico y español at the Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Receives a grant from Fundación Cultural Banesto.

Exhibits at Galería Miguel Marcos in Saragossa, Spain, and again at Galería Gamarra y Garrigues in Madrid and Galería Windsor Kulturgintza in Bilbao. Participates in America Discovers Spain at the Spanish Institute of New York.

Has his first solo exhibition in New York, at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery. His work is also shown at Galería Fernando Alcolea in Barcelona. Urzay&#8217;s work is included in a group exhibition of Spanish painting at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Returns to Bilbao. Exhibits works from the Camerastrokes series, made up of Polaroid photographs, at Galería Arteclio in Pamplona and the Photomuseum in Zarautz, Spain.

Exhibits at Galería Elba Benítez in Madrid, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery in New York, and In Situ Gallery in Aalst, Belgium. Urzay&#8217;s work is included in Transatlántica: The America- Europa non representativa at the Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero in Caracas, Venezuela.

Urzay&#8217;s work is displayed at Galerie Kaj Forsblom in Helsinki. His work is also featured in Nuevas abstracciones at the Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, which travels afterwards to the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany. Takes part in a group exhibition at Lelong Gallery in New York.

Returns to New York on a grant from the Fundación Marcelino Botín. An exhibition of Urzay&#8217;s drawings is shown at the Sala de Exposiciones of the Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa in Bilbao. Exhibits at the Sala América of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava in Vitoria, Spain, Galería Elba Benítez in Madrid, Galeria Senda in Barcelona, and Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona. His work is included in The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century, the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Urzay&#8217;s work features in Spanish and Basque Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; in Surfacing: Contemporary Drawing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; and in Painting Language at LA Louver in Los Angeles. He also presents his work at the Gemeenschapscentrum De Markten in Brussels.

Urzay&#8217;s work is also shown at Galerie Xippas in Paris, at Espacio Caja in Burgos, Spain, at Galeria Senda in Barcelona, Spain, and in Cosmos. Del romanticismo a la vanguardia, 1801-2001 at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

Exhibits work from the previous three years at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao. Exhibits Imágenes Yuxtapuestas at the Museo Municipal de Málaga in Málaga, Spain, and at Galería Elba Benítez in Madrid.

Takes part in the exhibition Gaur, hemen, orain at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Exhibits at Galería Visor in Valencia, Spain, and again at Galerie Xippas in Paris. His work also features in Imágenes de la noche en el arte español: 1981-2001 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente in Segovia, Spain.

Urzay&#8217;s work is featured in The Century of Picasso: 20th-century Spanish Art at the National Gallery in Athens; in Big Sur. Neue Spanische Kunst, at the Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin; and in Arte en España, 1977-2002. Colección del Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid at the Sala de Exposiciones Manege in Moscow.

His work is shown at Christian Dam Galleries in Oslo and Galería Distrito Cu4tro in Madrid. Works on paper by Urzay are shown at Galería Estiarte in Madrid.

The Espai Quatre del Cassal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, presents an exhibition of Urzay&#8217;s work entitled Into the Frame . His work also features in Monocromos, de Malevich al presente at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Commissioned by the Athletic Club de Bilbao football team, designs a T-shirt to be worn at the team&#8217;s European matches. It is officially registered with the Union of European Football Associations.

Receives the Premio Nacional de Artes Gráficas in Madrid for the work done in 2004. Takes part in the Second Beijing Biennale, where he is awarded second prize. Exhibits at Galería Tomás March in Valencia, Spain.

Urzay&#8217;s work is featured in an exhibition for the Premio Nacional de Artes Gráficas 2005 at the Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and in Tejidos: Óseos, pictóricos, arquitectónicos at the Museo de Teruel in Teruel, Spain, and La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Has a solo exhibition at the Sala Amós Salvador in Logroño, Spain.

Creates the permanent installation Mirador distante (tan cerca), commissioned by the Basque parliament. Creates a mural for the Museo Würth La Rioja in Agoncillo, Spain. Work by Urzay is included in the exhibitions Unknowns: Mapping Contemporary Basque Art at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Pasaje 42º 35&#8242; 27&#8221; N / 2º 57&#8242; 24&#8221; W at Galería Estiarte in Madrid.

Takes part in Goggel på jorden at Galleri Charlotte Lund in Stockholm.

Artists

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Clyfford Still

T

Antoni Tàpies

Francesc Torres

Cy Twombly

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Darío Urzay

Juan Uslé

V

Manolo Valdés

W

Andy Warhol

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