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A painter with an elusive and singular personality, which is as much due to his character as to the personal and historical events in which he was involved, Roberto Matta wants to be totally open to the world and immediately places his work as a testimony to reality, to life and history.
Matta had a certain charisma, his commitment to just and sincere political causes took a considerable place in his art. He almost constantly addresses, marked by his history and by History , political, cultural and social confrontations, which he translates through the expression of states of tension or anxiety.
In cosmic and visionary landscapes which evoke raw territories in perpetual transformation, Roberto Matta develops a discourse, where appears, from 1945, the figuration of Man, of his universe and where in sequences, the world is created, takes shape, is articulated and metamorphosed according to a sharp and impulsive writing. The violence in certain works is expressed symbolically by the sole convulsive movement of sharp volumes which collide in a swirling, chaotic and explosive space.
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L'ergofrage (Naufrage du Titanic) from Hom'mere III - L'Ergonaute
Roberto Matta
Print - 67.3 x 50.8 cm
$2,500
Ancien Victorieux je te morphose from Hom'mere I (Chaosmos)
Roberto Matta
Print - 66 x 50.8 cm
$2,500
Exhibitions dedicated to Roberto Matta
Galleri GKM
PopUp Paris by Galleri GKM
From October 21, 2021 to October 30, 2021
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Movement Abstract Expressionism
Surrealist Artists
Classically-Inspired Illustrative Artists
Sculptors
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Chilean artists
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Who is the artist?
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, “Matta," (1911–2002), was born in Santiago, Chile.
Roberto Matta's first one-artist exhibition was held at the Julian Levy Gallery, New York in 1940, and since that time, nearly 400 solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted, including MoMA's 1957 retrospective, which traveled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1957) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1958).
Roberto Matta is considered one of the great Surrealists and is widely acclaimed for his critical, and catalytic, influence on the development of Abstract Expressionism and on his contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell.
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What is Roberto Matta’s artistic movement?
The artistic movements of the artists are: Movement Abstract Expressionism, Surrealist Artists, Classically-Inspired Illustrative Artists, Der Blaue Reiter , South American Art
When was Roberto Matta born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1911