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Roberto Matta 1939 at Hauterives (France)

Roberto Matta
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Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián Antonio

Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián Antonio (1911- ) (11/11/11), Chilean-born painter, whose works, inspired by Surrealism, illustrate a dream world of modern technological civilization. His paintings depict strange hybrid automatons and insectlike creatures. Matta, now a French citizen, lived in New York City from 1939 to 1948 and influenced the work of Arshile Gorky and the creation of abstract expressionism.

witnessed _Matta In America_ exhibit

and catalog

at LACMA 10/16/01
showcasing his work in the 1940's. included was a video interview of him explaining _Coigitum_ - conducted in the eighties.

pieces include:

_A Grave Situation_
_The Earth Is A Man_
_Psychological Morphology_ (1938)
_The Vertigo Of Eros_
_Dark Light_
_Inscape_
_The Onyx Of Electra_
_Prime Ordeal_
_How-Ever_
_Wound Interrogation_

track _Matta_ MP3 (192k) by Brian Eno off of _Apollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks_ on EG (1983)
avant garde experimental rock track _Quinka Matta_ MP3 by Derek Bailey & The Ruins off of _Saisoro_ on Tzadik (1995)

pieces:

_Le Sphynx de DNA_, 1996 164.1 x 210.8 cm.

"Star, flower, personnage, stone", 1938 40.6 x 64.7 cm.

"Space Travel (Star Travel)", 1938 50.2 x 64.8 cm., Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

"The Bachelors Twenty Years After", 1943
(reference to Marcel Duchamp)

"Les Roses sont belles", 1951
201 x 281 cm., private coll., Geneva

"Intervision", 1955
129.5 x 195 cm.
collaboration between Matta and Victor Brauner -- Matta painted the figures, Brauner painted the image on the "movie screen"