Matta. From surrealism to history.
Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 17138 |
| Format | 23.7 x 28 |
| Détails | 253 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Ghent, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461610720 |
Matta, born in Chile in 1911, left for Paris at a young age, where he met Tanguy, Duchamp, and Breton. He then became a key artist in the Surrealist movement. From 1939 to 1949, he was in the United States, where he moved from Morphopsychologies to a body of work in which the outside world took its full place after the revelation of the atrocities of the Second World War. His testimony and his commitment to the struggles of the 20th century would be the source of an exceptional body of work, prolific to the point of excess, with a particularly abundant iconography.
From the 1960s onwards, the format of his paintings often became monumental. A painter with an elusive and singular personality, which owes as much to his character as to the personal and historical events in which he was involved, he wanted to be totally open to the world and, in this position, immediately placed his work as a testimony to reality, to life and to history. He is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
The exhibition and catalogue aim to reveal the remarkable journey that led Matta from the Surrealist legacy to history painting, based on formal and spatial permanence, affinities and correspondences from one subject to another, from one myth to another. The event is part of Marseille, European Capital of Culture in 2013, and will celebrate the reopening of the Cantini Museum, after major renovation work.
A foreword by Christine Poullain will introduce the texts by Agnès de la Beaumelle, Emmanuel Guigon and Georges Sebbag, Marine Nédèlec, Alain Sayag, as well as an interview by Matta with Eduardo Carrasco. In the appendix, alongside a rich illustration, a biography, a list of exhibitions and a bibliography will close the catalogue. All the works exhibited will be reproduced in the catalogue.
Matta, born in Chile in 1911, left for Paris at a young age, where he met Tanguy, Duchamp, and Breton. He then became a key artist in the Surrealist movement. From 1939 to 1949, he was in the United States, where he moved from Morphopsychologies to a body of work in which the outside world took its full place after the revelation of the atrocities of the Second World War. His testimony and his commitment to the struggles of the 20th century would be the source of an exceptional body of work, prolific to the point of excess, with a particularly abundant iconography.
From the 1960s onwards, the format of his paintings often became monumental. A painter with an elusive and singular personality, which owes as much to his character as to the personal and historical events in which he was involved, he wanted to be totally open to the world and, in this position, immediately placed his work as a testimony to reality, to life and to history. He is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
The exhibition and catalogue aim to reveal the remarkable journey that led Matta from the Surrealist legacy to history painting, based on formal and spatial permanence, affinities and correspondences from one subject to another, from one myth to another. The event is part of Marseille, European Capital of Culture in 2013, and will celebrate the reopening of the Cantini Museum, after major renovation work.
A foreword by Christine Poullain will introduce the texts by Agnès de la Beaumelle, Emmanuel Guigon and Georges Sebbag, Marine Nédèlec, Alain Sayag, as well as an interview by Matta with Eduardo Carrasco. In the appendix, alongside a rich illustration, a biography, a list of exhibitions and a bibliography will close the catalogue. All the works exhibited will be reproduced in the catalogue.