Antoni Clavé

To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Antoni Clavé (Barcelona, 1913 – Saint-Tropez, 2005), the Palau Martorell presented a major retrospective of the Catalan artist, organised on the initiative of the Joan Gaspar Gallery in collaboration with the Clavé Archive.

Curated by Aude Hendgen, head of the Antoni Clavé Archives in Paris, and José Félix Bentz, co-founder of the Palau Martorell, the exhibition brought together more than 80 works — some never shown before — on loan from public and private collections, in five thematic sections spanning Clavé's work from the 1930s to the late 1990s.

A second venue, at the Reial Cercle Artístic, presented Clavé as a multifaceted artist and explored his ceaseless experimentation with the expressive possibilities of materials.