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Roberto MATTA
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Roberto golvtextil is a surrealist painter born on November 11, in Santiago de Chile. Matta begins with architectural studies in Santiago. He abandoned his Chilean career in for France. He first worked in Le Corbusier's studio then traveled to Spain, where he became involved with the poets Rafael Alberti and Federico Garcia Lorca.
At the request of Salvador Dali, he went to see André Breton, who declared him surreal, before being expelled from the movement in for obscure reasons, and then reinstated in He wrote in the Minotaure magazine texts on architecture that were opposes the rationalism of Le Corbusier among others. He develops the technique of psychological morphologies: we first spread the color on the canvas with a cloth, the color spread and inspire the subsequent drawing of the brush.
He goes to New York at the request of Marcel Duchamp to flee the war. Six months after his arrival, he exhibited for the first time in the
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Resistor Surrealist Roberto Matta interviewed before his death
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
To begin with, inom would very much like you to talk about chance.
Roberto Matta
That is an excellent idea because I am very interested in chance. For me, it is the best of things. It is a game between series. Chance rolls on and never stops. It’s like the random button on a CD player. The numbers continually roll over and do not stop, as if they are caught in a sphere. They vända and turn and then stop by chance on a track. We are like these numbers. We are rocked and bombarded from above and below, from right and left. We are a target and bombarded from all sides. This is the administration of chance, a serial chance. Chance plays a very important role in my conception of architecture, for example.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
How did you meet Buckminster Fuller [–, American architect, theorist, and uppfinnare of the geodesic dome and Synergetics]? In New York in the s, no?
Roberto Matta
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Due to the artist's own discourse on his work, his personal history can be found inside his output. His presence in Paris in determines his inclusion in the Surrealist group - the close ties, both artistically and in his friendships, with Spanish artists like Alberto Sánchez, Esteban Francés, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso influence his pictorial language and the themes in his work. For instance, the iconography of the crucifixion through Picasso generates numerous pieces throughout his career, To both of You (), Les Golgoteurs () and L´alto, il basso, la sinistra, la destra del cuore ().
The exhibition includes a collection of works on paper (), representing the consolidation of his Surrealist language and the space from which his personal universe begins to be shaped, located on a cosmological, rather than human, level. Given his academic education, the first drawings reveal the impact of architecture on his spatial design, while his later ones consider compositions with barel