Sebastian Matta Echaurren - Leo

In the history of art, a clear distinction can often be made between figurative and abstract stylistic movements. However, when an artist's goal is to represent an object that resonates with phenomenal reality but is also charged with hidden and symbolic meaning, this boundary can become blurred. Symbolism and Expressionism are emblematic stylistic movements in their conceptual interpretation of reality, with an iconic rendering of images and a symbolic interpretation in the use of color.

As we can see in this work, Sebastián Matta's sculpture undoubtedly harks back to a primitive, tribal type of expressionism. The artist's synthesis reduces the figure to a sort of fetish from some pre-Columbian civilization. Matta, however, introduces elements typical of a contemporary sensibility. He breaks down the figure according to multiple directives, following Cubist influences. He also generates the figure as if it were a mechanomorphic construction, directly referencing the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century.

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren was a Chilean artist born in Santiago, Chile, in 1911 and died in Civitavecchia, Italy, in 2002. In his artistic training, he embraced Surrealism, along with Dalí and Breton, developing a series of paintings on psychological morphologies. In the 1970s, he embraced the poetics of the object, constructing the "Autoapocalisse," a house made of car wrecks as a critique of consumerism. In the 1990s, he began the series of obelisks and totems called "Cosmo-now."

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