Roberto Matta

Born in Chile in 1911 and died in 2002, Roberto Matta was a Surrealist artist, considered one of its last representatives. An avid traveler, he left Chile following his studies in architecture, arriving in Paris in 1934, where he became a disciple of Le Corbusier and later of Breton. However, his exclusion from the Surrealist group between 1948 and 1959 and his political commitment dictated his work in the 1960s. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of Fine Arts (Spanish prize) in 1985, marking the beginning of an accepted recognition, underpinned by successive awards such as the Chilean National Art Prize in 1990 and the Praemium Imperiale (Japanese prize) in 1995.