« I was born to release the brakes of the sky », wrote Matta (1911-2002). He was born in Chile and lived in France, the United States and Italy. His Basque origins destined him to wander and travel. He was a citizen of the world. He brilliantly represented the new generation of surrealist painters and opened new perspectives in automatism with psychological morphology. Matta was driven by unrelenting curiosity, and his encyclopedic knowledge spanned from literature to poetry, mythology to history, mathematics to astrophysics, ethnology to archeology and botany to oenology etc. His work embraced all mediums: architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture, engraving, lithography, etching, ceramics, furniture, design etc. He worked for a revolution of gaze. His explosive and volcanic creativity, his revolutionary commitment and his cosmic vision of the world based on change and the awareness of being in the world, place Matta in the pantheon of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
