Roberto Matta
Roberto Matta | |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Surrealism |
Awards | Praemium Imperiale |
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Spanish:
Biography
Matta was of
It was Breton who provided the major spur to the Chilean's direction in art, encouraging his work and introducing him to the leading members of the Paris Surrealist movement. Matta produced illustrations and articles for Surrealist journals such as Minotaure. During this period he was introduced to the work of many prominent contemporary European artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.
The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms (see biomorphism). He was one of the first artists to take this abstract leap.
Matta's connections with Breton's surrealist movement were severed following a private disagreement concerning
Throughout his life, Matta worked with many different types of media, including ceramic, photography, and video production.[4]
Matta died in Civitavecchia, Italy on 23 November 2002, eleven days after his 91st birthday.
Matta was married twice: his first wife was Patricia Matta Echaurren (née O'Connell), an American (who later married Pierre Matisse), and his second wife was Germana Ferrari.[5] He is the father of six children. Two died prematurely, leaving his creative legacy to artists Gordon Matta-Clark and his twin brother Sebastian,[6] Ramuntcho Matta, Federica Matta,[7] designer Alisée and artist and writer Pablo Echaurren, whose surname was wrongly recorded at birth.
Exhibitions (selection)
Group shows
In 2019, his work was included in the group show The Gift of Art, at
Selected list of works
- Sick Flesh (ca. 1932-1933)
- The Clown (1934)
- Untitled (Payasa) (1935)
- Panama and Wet Sheets (1936)
- La Forêt, Snail’s Trace, Composición Azul, Scénario No. 1: Succion Panique du Soleil and Morphology (1937)
- The Red Sun, Space Travel (Star Travel), To Both of You, Crucifixión (Crucifixion), several works titled Psychological Morphology and Morphology of Desire (1938)
- more works titled Psychological Morphology and Water (1939)
- Dark Light (1940)
- Invasion of the Night, Ecouter Vivre, Théorie de l’Arbre, Composition Abstraite, The Initiation (Origine d’un Extrême) and Foeu (1941)
- The Hanged Man, The End of Everything, The Disasters of Mysticism and The Apples we Know (1942)
- L’Oeyx, El Día es un Atentado and Redness of Lead (1943)
- Cover art for the final issue of the magazine VVV, To Escape the Absolute, Et At It, Le Glaive et la Parole and Poing d’Hurlement (1944)
- La Femme Affamée, Abstracto, The Heart Players and Rêve ou Morte (1945)
- Le Pélerin du Doute and A Grave Situation (1946)
- Accidentalité, Metamatician # 12 and Black Mirror (1947)
- Wound Interrogation and The Prophet (1948)
- La Revécue and Woman Looked At (1949)
- C’Ontra Vosotvos Asesinon de Palomas (1950)
- Ne Songe Plus à Fuir and Les Roses Sont Belles (1951)
- L'horreur du mal, L'ultime, L'ennemi interieur, La memoria cosmica (1951)
- Pecador Justificado and Eclosion (1952)
- Le plus libre (1952)
- Morning on Earth, Hills a Poppin, The Murder of the Rosenbergs, L’Hosticier and L’Apetite de Primer (1953)
- Abrir los Brazos Como se Abren los Ojos, Bud Sucker, The Chess Player, L’Atout and Tados Juntos en la Tierra (1954)
- Le Long Pont, Spearcing of the Grain, L’Engin dans l’Éminence and Intervision (1955)
- Banale de Venise, Heart Malitte, Fleur de Midi and Le Pianiste (1956)
- Le Point d’Ombre, L’Impencible, The And of Think and Ciel Volante (1957)
- La Chasse Spirituelle (started in 1957), Être Cible Nous Monde, L’Etang de No, The Infancy of Concentration, Les Eviteurs and Le Courier (1958)
- Un Soleil à Qui Sait Reunir, Les Faiseurs du Neant, Gay Above All, The Clan and L’Impensable (Grand Personage) (1959)
- Couple IV (started in 1959), Être Atout (five part suite), Vers l’Universe, Ciudad Cósmica and Design of Intuition (1960)
- Vivir Enfrentando las Flechas (1961)
- Les Moyens du Creafeur, Claustrophobic Vaincue and Mal de Terre (1962)
- Eve Vielle (1963)
- Éros Semens (triptych, started in 1962) and La Luz del Proscrito (started in 1963) (1964)
- La Térre Uni (1965)
- Le où A Marée Haute and La Promenade de Vénus (1966)
- Signe of the Times and Morire per Amore (1967)
- Malitte (modular furniture set designed between 1966 and 1968) and La Caza de Adolescentes (1968)
- Lieberos, Nude Hiding in the Forest and Verginosamente (1969)
- Elle Logela Folie, Je-ographie, El Hombre de la Lampara and MAgriTTA Chair (1970)
- Otto Por Tre, El primer gol del pueblo chileno and Paralelles de la Viel (1971)
- Coigitum and The Upheaval of One’s Ocean (1972)
- La Vida Allende la Muerte, Senile d’Incertitude, Migration des Révoltes and Hom’mer (Chaosmos) (suite of ten etchings with aquatint) (1973)
- Explosant Fixe, Je M’Espionne, Deep Mars, L’Aube Permanente and Cadran d’Incendies (1974)
- Mas Ceilin and Illumine le Temps (1975)
- Wake (started in 1974), Une d’Une and Les Voix des Temples (1976)
- Rooming Life, L’Ombre de l’Invisible and Ouvre l’Instant (1977)
- Carré-four and Dedalopolous (1978)
- Polimorfologia (1979)
- Il Proprio Corno Mio, Laocoontare (La Guerra Delle Idee) and Pyrocentre (1980)
- Las Scillabas de Scylla, El Espejo de Cronos and El Verbo América (1981)
- Geomagnética de Danza (started in 1981), Ils Sexplose, Passo Interno di Mercurio, Labirintad and The Sign (1982)
- Morphologie de la Gaîté, Logos Men and Artificial Lucidity (1983)
- Ecran de la Mémoire and Le Dauphin de la Memoire (1984)
- L'Espace Du Point (1985)
- Mi-mosa, 24 Mai 1986, Une Pierre Qui Regagnera le Ciel and Oeramen, la Conscience est un Arbre Vetroresina (1986)
- D’Âme et d’Eve (1987)
- Être Cri (1988)
- Violetation and L’Envenement Non Identifié (1989)
- A l’Intérieur de la Rose, Omnipuissance du Rouge, Navigateur and Haiku (1990)
- Parmi les Désirs and Ma Dame (1991)
- Champ du Vide, Cosmo-now, Le Désnomeur Rénomme and Farfallacqua (1992)
- Leaving Your Grass, Vertige du Vertige, Torinox and Colomberos (1993)
- Vent d’Atomes (1994)
- Les Arpèges, L’Âme du Fond and Melodia-Melodio (1995)
- The Road to Heaven, Storming Water River and Redness of Blue (1996)
- Flowerita and Oak Flower (1997)
- Youniverso (1998)
- Blanche ou Fleur (1999)
- N’ou’s Autres (2000)
- Chaosmos (2002), Viersen sculpture collection
- Post History Chicken Flowers, La Dulce Acqua Vita and La Source du Calme (2002)
See also
- Dakin Building
- Art of Chile
Notes
- ^ "Roberto Matta". Archived from the original on 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ^ Dolin, Bryan. "Matta's Lucid Landscape." Surrealism and Architecture. By Thomas Mical. London: Routledge, 2005. 53-59. Print.
- ^ "Chile unveils mural thought destroyed by dictator Augusto Pinochet".
- ^ "Système 88".
- ^ McNay, Michael (November 25, 2002). "Obituary Roberto Matta". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
- ^ artnet feature Archived 2010-07-13 at the Wayback Machine retrieved October 23, 2009
- ^ "Federica MATTA".
- ^ "Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Latin American and Latinx Art Fund • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
References
- Bodley Gallery (New York, N.Y.) Matta, from 1942 to 1957 Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (New York : Bodley Gallery, 1960) OCLC 78760494
- Passeron, René (1984). The Concise Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Trans. J. Griffiths. Ware, UK: Omega Books. ISBN 0-907853-28-5.
- Fletcher, Valerie J; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Crosscurrents of modernism : four Latin American pioneers : Diego Rivera, ISBN 1-56098-206-3
- ISBN 978-2-84066-194-8
- Fabrice Flahutez, « Biologie cellulaire et fonctions mathématiques dans l’œuvre de Roberto Matta », Art Présence, n° 51, septembre 2004, p. 32-37.[French]
- Fabrice Flahutez, « La peinture de Roberto Matta entre cellule eucaryote et singularité de Schwarzschild», in Mélusine, n° XXVII (le surréalisme et la science), Cahiers du Centre de Recherche sur le Surréalisme (Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle), sous la dir. d’Henri Béhar, Lausanne, Éditions L’Age d’Homme, mars 2007, p. 145-153. ISBN 978-2-8251-3727-7[French]
- Fabrice Flahutez, "Lecture labyrinthe et espaces spiralés: la revue Instead", in Les revues d'art, dir. R. Froissart Pezone et Y. Chevrefils-Desbioles, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011, p. 155-165. ISBN 2-753514801[French]
- Matta Fiktionen, ❲cat. Exhibition Bucerius Kunst forum, Hambourg September 22, 2012 – January 6, 2013❳, Texts by Fabrice Flahutez, Alyce Mahon, Julia Drost, Werner Hofmann, Gavin Parkinson, Marga Paz, Evelyn Pechinger-Theuerkauf, Hrsg. Ortrud Westheider und Michael Philipp Sofort lieferbar, München, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7774-5431-3[German]
- Matta-Log. Morphology of desire, (cat. Fabrice Flahutez (ed.) Exhibition Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, February 24 - June 2 2024), Texts by Fabrice Flahutez, Ingried Brugger, translation by Susan L. Power, Wien, Bank Austria Kusntforum, 2024, ISBN 978-3-200-09642-4[English]