ROBERTO MATTA: THE SUN FOR WHOEVER KNOWS HOW TO GATHER TOGETHER

Abstract

Leo Lobos, Chilean writer and visual artist, begins this portrait of Roberto Matta, one of the main figures of Latin-American plastic arts in the 20th century, by quoting his answer to the question: "Do you paint your dreams?" He then continues this journey through the intense life of the architect and painter, who was born in Chile in 1911 and died in Italy in 2002, and was once part of the surrealist movement and related with Le Corbusier, Neruda, García Lorca, Dalí, Bretón, Gabriela Mistral, Gropius, Magritte, Duchamp, Tanguy, Miró, Mondrian and Max Ernst, among other celebrated names.