"Matta: Five Decades of Painting, Works from the Collections of Federica Matta and Ramuntcho Matta" Exhibition
The Pace Gallery (32 E 57th St)
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"Matta: Five Decades of Painting, Works from the Collections of Federica Matta and Ramuntcho Matta" is the first major exhibition of Matta’s work in New York since a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957. The approximately fifteen oil paintings on view span fifty years of Matta’s career. Chilean-born Matta is perhaps best known for his association with the Surrealist movement. As critic and art historian Martica Sawin notes, “Matta played a catalytic role in the development of what was described in the mid-1940s as Abstract Surrealism,” a precursor of Abstract Expressionism— and his technical skills, innovative style, and charismatic personality earned him a prominent place within the Surrealist circle. Invited by André Breton to join the Surrealists in 1937, Matta’s vibrant, socially-charged adaptation of Surrealism would go on to influence artists such as Robert Motherwell, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Arshile Gorky, William Baziotes and Jackson Pollock, among others.
[Image: Matta "Untitled" (c.1949) oil on canvas 78.75 x 76 in.]
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Schedule
from January 30, 2009 to February 28, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-01-29 from 18:00 to 20:00