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Matta: The Open Cube - New installation of the Permanent Collection
09 Sep, 2011 - 23 Oct, 2011
The new installation of the five large canvases of the series L鈥橦onni aveuglant (The blinding Exile) by Matta from the Museum鈥檚 Permanent Collection reflects the way that the artist hung it for its first presentation at the Alexandre Iolas Gallery in Paris in 1966.
The Chilean artist Matta presented this series using his 鈥渙pen cube鈥� system. The result was a type of modern polyptych that created a box which enveloped the viewer. Two of the canvases were displayed horizontally, suspended from the ceiling and closing the space created by the other three. Through this spectacular installation Matta submerged the viewer in his pictorial universe, which was hermetic, hallucinatory and filled with literary, spiritual and artistic references.
Forty-five years later and on the centenary of the artist鈥檚 birth, to be celebrated in 2011, the series can once again be seen in its original splendour.
The new installation of the five large canvases of the series L鈥橦onni aveuglant (The blinding Exile) by Matta from the Museum鈥檚 Permanent Collection reflects the way that the artist hung it for its first presentation at the Alexandre Iolas Gallery in Paris in 1966.
The Chilean artist Matta presented this series using his 鈥渙pen cube鈥� system. The result was a type of modern polyptych that created a box which enveloped the viewer. Two of the canvases were displayed horizontally, suspended from the ceiling and closing the space created by the other three. Through this spectacular installation Matta submerged the viewer in his pictorial universe, which was hermetic, hallucinatory and filled with literary, spiritual and artistic references.
Forty-five years later and on the centenary of the artist鈥檚 birth, to be celebrated in 2011, the series can once again be seen in its original splendour.
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