Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The State Hermitage Museum is delighted tio present „Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension“ which will take place in the White Hall of the General Staff Building in St. Petersburg from April 10 to June 30, 2019. This is the first time Russia will see the works of one of the last Surrealists, who is virtually unknown to the local audience.
Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren (1911 — 2002) was born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile. He was of mixed Spanish, Basque, and French origin. A cosmopolitan artist, Matta lived and worked in South America, France, Mexico, the US, Italy, Spain, and England. Urged by his parents who did not believe painting could be a serious enough occupation, Matta received a degree in Architecture at Catholic University in Santiago de Chile. While in the employ of Le Corbusier in Paris in the 1930s, he met the Surrealists and worked on his drawing. Andre Breton, who supported the young artist in his quest, wrote that „Matta had a unique way of showing the necessity to visually depict the four-dimensional universe. In his works, nothing is intentional anymore, everything comes from the desire to submerge into the area of the divine.“
The exhibition is co-curated by Dmitry Ozerkov, Ph.D., Head of the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum, and by Oksana Salamatina. The international logistics is organized with the assistance of Salamatina LLC, which is responsible for coordinating of the exhibition on behalf of the Hermitage in the USA.
Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren (1911 — 2002) was born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile. He was of mixed Spanish, Basque, and French origin. A cosmopolitan artist, Matta lived and worked in South America, France, Mexico, the US, Italy, Spain, and England. Urged by his parents who did not believe painting could be a serious enough occupation, Matta received a degree in Architecture at Catholic University in Santiago de Chile. While in the employ of Le Corbusier in Paris in the 1930s, he met the Surrealists and worked on his drawing. Andre Breton, who supported the young artist in his quest, wrote that „Matta had a unique way of showing the necessity to visually depict the four-dimensional universe. In his works, nothing is intentional anymore, everything comes from the desire to submerge into the area of the divine.“
The exhibition is co-curated by Dmitry Ozerkov, Ph.D., Head of the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum, and by Oksana Salamatina. The international logistics is organized with the assistance of Salamatina LLC, which is responsible for coordinating of the exhibition on behalf of the Hermitage in the USA.
Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The State Hermitage Museum is delighted tio present „Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension“ which will take place in the White Hall of the General Staff Building in St. Petersburg from April 10 to June 30, 2019. This is the first time Russia will see the works of one of the last Surrealists, who is virtually unknown to the local audience.
Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren (1911 — 2002) was born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile. He was of mixed Spanish, Basque, and French origin. A cosmopolitan artist, Matta lived and worked in South America, France, Mexico, the US, Italy, Spain, and England. Urged by his parents who did not believe painting could be a serious enough occupation, Matta received a degree in Architecture at Catholic University in Santiago de Chile. While in the employ of Le Corbusier in Paris in the 1930s, he met the Surrealists and worked on his drawing. Andre Breton, who supported the young artist in his quest, wrote that „Matta had a unique way of showing the necessity to visually depict the four-dimensional universe. In his works, nothing is intentional anymore, everything comes from the desire to submerge into the area of the divine.“
The exhibition is co-curated by Dmitry Ozerkov, Ph.D., Head of the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum, and by Oksana Salamatina. The international logistics is organized with the assistance of Salamatina LLC, which is responsible for coordinating of the exhibition on behalf of the Hermitage in the USA.
Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren (1911 — 2002) was born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile. He was of mixed Spanish, Basque, and French origin. A cosmopolitan artist, Matta lived and worked in South America, France, Mexico, the US, Italy, Spain, and England. Urged by his parents who did not believe painting could be a serious enough occupation, Matta received a degree in Architecture at Catholic University in Santiago de Chile. While in the employ of Le Corbusier in Paris in the 1930s, he met the Surrealists and worked on his drawing. Andre Breton, who supported the young artist in his quest, wrote that „Matta had a unique way of showing the necessity to visually depict the four-dimensional universe. In his works, nothing is intentional anymore, everything comes from the desire to submerge into the area of the divine.“
The exhibition is co-curated by Dmitry Ozerkov, Ph.D., Head of the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum, and by Oksana Salamatina. The international logistics is organized with the assistance of Salamatina LLC, which is responsible for coordinating of the exhibition on behalf of the Hermitage in the USA.
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