Matta in the reverse of the universe with his his friends behind the mirror

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Enrique de Santiago

Abstract

This essay about Roberto Matta explores the career (a short one) from a sensitive projection of the Chilean artist, architect, philosopher, and poet. Matta evokes the immersion from a project of the being to a cosmic and alchemic project where the relationship between alchemy and science concurs with irrevocable determination: Eliphas Lévi, Fulcanelli, and Albert Ein­stein; the text also deals with the com­munication means between artist Matta’s search and his very free commitment to the surrealistic movement (Breton) and to himself, en la medida en lo extrae y tra­duce ??? from such artistic movement and from his interventions and participation in movements of modern art and his own movement. According to Roberto Matta’s own words in 1965:  An artist’s role in our society involves be­ing that glaring and repudiated character (the child of Andersen’s short story) who is the only one that affirms that the king is nude. This denouncement of the scandal makes of him a minority member. For the artist, it is not a question of establishing a relationship between color blue and color green: these aesthetic scenarios belong in a certain way to those who contemplated them. On the contrary, I want to agitate so that the contemplating person becomes a minority member. I want the spectator to be possessed by the picture instead of possessing it; I want him to be bombarded from everywhere with a huge amount of consciousness. In this way, caught within an unbearable situation caused by the pic­ture, he is then forced to perform a poetic creation act to possess it: beset by the real world he feels defeated and then forced to reflect.

 In this way, this essay about Roberto Matta deals with the aesthetic furor. There is not aesthetics without science and evidence, as proposed and induced by Matta..

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de Santiago, E. (2015). Matta in the reverse of the universe with his his friends behind the mirror. Ciencias Sociales Y Educación, 3(5), 183-192. https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/Ciencias_Sociales/article/view/947

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Enrique de Santiago, Investigador independiente

Curador, artista visual y poeta surrealista. Ensayista e investigador independiente