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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Matta, Roberto (1911 - 2002) Chile
Untitled (pour 120 Journées de Marquis de Sade), 1943
Pastel on paper laid down on cardboard; 95 x 80 cm Surrealism
UID 102-368
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Biography
Chilean painter and draughtsman, Matta was educated at the Sacré Coeur Jesuit College and at Catholic University of Santiago (1929-31). In 1933 he moved to Paris where he worked at Le Corbusier's studio. In 1936, in London, he worked with Walter Gropius and Laszló Moholy-Nagy who, to some extent, influenced his work. At this time, Roberto Matta concentrated essentially on drawing whose vitality attracted the attention of the Surrealists and André Breton invited him to take part in the International Exhibition of Surrealism in 1938. His first one-man show, at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, was considered one of the high points of Surrealism by Breton; the originality of the works causing a tremendous impact on the American Abstract Expressionists. Nevertheless, this success was immediately put in question by the American critics and Matta was finally expelled from the Surrealist group in 1948. It could be said that, generally, Matta's work was influenced by Picasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky or even architectural and engineering designs, science fiction illustration and comic strips. Matta's strictly abstract painting, with elements of psychic automatism, had a strong influence on Abstract Expressionism, particularly Gorky and Motherwell.
Exhibitions
Matta: Cinquante-cinq Dessins Depuis 1937 Galerie du Dragon, France 26-09-1978 ~ 10-11-1978
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 14-12-2007 ~ 29-02-2008
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Paradise Motel Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011
Bibliography
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 9728902034
Matta: Cinquante-cinq Dessins Depuis 1937, 1978 Published by Galerie du Dragon
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
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