Matta Echaurren, Roberto (1911-2002), chileno:A Vertigem de Eros (1944);
A Sombra do Momento (1966).
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta was born in Chile in 1911 to European parents. He graduated in Architecture from the Catholic University of Santiago and travelled to Europe in 1933, meeting the avant-garde architects, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto.
Roberto Matta´s first works were exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Paris. It was in Paris that he met Magritte, Picasso -who was exhibiting his "Guernica" at the time- and Miró, whose painting techniques he was greatly interested in. He later met André Breton through Dalí and Lorca in 1938, and came to form part of the Surrealist movement, in whose magazine, Minotaure, he published several articles. Ten years later, after a fruitful trip to New York and numerous exhibitions, he was expelled form the Surrealists. At the time of his expulsion he was involved in an important joint exhibition with Asger Jorn.
