A pioneer of mixed media, the Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies rose to prominence in the 1950s. In the 1990s, when he was in his 70s, his mood turned melancholy. Tàpies looked with sadness upon world calamities, such as the Bosnian War and the Rwandan genocide, and began creating images of death—mortuary shrouds, bones, and skulls. As with other far-left intellectuals, the failure of socialism and the breakup of the Soviet Union were blows to his utopian ideals. This exhibition looks at works by Tàpies that were made during that decade, some never before shown, such as Four Elements (1992) and Before–After (1994). —Elena Clavarino