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The act of intersecting two lines is considered to be one of humanity’s first written signs. The cross is a constant presence in the work of Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012). The artist was fascinated by invariables that permeate human history, art in its diverse places, the echoes that can be felt between a prehistoric cave marking, a Christian symbol, graffiti on a wall, even the letter T (the initial of Tàpies and Teresa, his wife), this Phoenician tau that was adopted by the Greeks and then the Latin languages. In Tàpies’ work, where fragments of bodies and familiar objects abound, sometimes the …