The Tàpies Museum joins the programme of the centenary of the birth of Pere Portabella, curated by Jordi Balló, with the project entitled _Tàpies, Portabella. Politics of friendship. _ This project takes as a starting point the personal and professional relationship between both creators, which extended from their youth during the first Franco regime until the death of Antoni Tàpies, in 2012, and beyond.

The case of Tàpies i Portabella, used here as the nucleus of a wider network of cultural agents, offers a model of building political communities based not only on affinities, but also, or above all, on the transformative power of criticism and dissent. Based on the recognition of heterogeneity and difference as articulating principles, the project will explore forms, both historical and present, of alliances between art and politics that cross different languages.

It is a proposal of theInstitute of Critical Derives, a platform of contemporary thought that articulates research projects, seminars and publications with the capacity to generate dialogue between the Tapian legacy and the current currents of critical theory, political philosophy and material aesthetics. For this project, Tània Balló and Pedro G. Romero will join the stable members of the group: Xavier Bassas, Manuel Borja-Villel, Daniel García Andújar, Mabel Tapia and, on behalf of the Tàpies Museum, Imma Prieto, Pablo Allepuz, Pau Dito, Maria Sellarès and Patricia Sorroche.