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ROBERTO MATTA. LA CONCIENCIA ES UN ÁRBOL

Roberto Matta

Feb 3 – Mar 21

Galería RGR
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Galería RGR

Calle Gral. Antonio León 48, San Miguel Chapultepec I Secc, CDMX 11850

Mon-Thu 10:30am-6:30pm, Fri 10:30am-4:30pm, Sat 11am-4:30pm

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About

Roberto Matta (1911–2002) understood painting as a space of thought in motion: a territory where the visible and the invisible, the poetic and the political, the inner and the cosmic, continuously intersect. His work opened new visual languages to imagine consciousness as an expansive architecture, capable of transforming how we perceive the world. This exhibition brings together a selection of works across different moments of his trajectory and invites viewers into Matta's universe of mental landscapes, shifting forms, and structures that suggest realities not yet named. In Matta, painting does not simply represent; it activates. It becomes a tool for seeing, for opening possibilities, for creating futures. Matta's relationship with Mexico and Latin America was central to his thinking. In dialogue with figures such as Octavio Paz, his work articulated a vision of creation as a shared experience, where art becomes a way of being with others, with history, with matter, and with time. To return to Matta today is to return to a radical imagination: an invitation to unfold new worlds, to think through transformation, and to walk, as he proposed, by creating a path within his images.

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paintingoil on canvascontemporarysolo exhibitionLatin Americanabstractsurrealism
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