Cicle 'Seguint el sol. Destapant la mirada'

"The Game of Looking" —text published in January 1967 in the magazine Cavall Fort—, Antoni Tàpies invited readers to exercise the gaze as a practice for reaching a deeper understanding, with "an open heart", of what surrounds us. The artist insisted on the need for a trained gaze beyond immediacy: a gaze capable of widening the "field of our vision" and, consequently, our "knowledge"."Look, look deeply! And let yourselves be fully carried away by everything that resonates within you from what the gaze offers us (…). It is a game. But playing does not mean doing things "just because". (…) Playing... playing, we make our spirit grow, we widen the field of our vision, of our knowledge. Playing...