New York Times
February 13, 2009 | | Karen Rosenberg | | "The Chilean-born painter Matta (real name: Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren), who died in 2002, was something of a late-blooming Surrealist. He hooked up with André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris during the waning years of the movement in Europe, and later helped to revive it in New York. His paintings influenced many artists of the New York School, but have not been the subject of a museum show here since a 1957 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
This selection of 15 paintings, from the collections of Matta’s daughter Federica and son Ramuntcho, is weighted toward his later work. Still, it shows how Matta helped Surrealist visions of the subconscious evolve to reflect cold-war nightmares. ..." |
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