Matta-Duchamp
Illustrated catalog featuring full page color illustrations and rare documentary photographs. Published by Galerie Gmurzynska in June 2018 to accompany a special cabinet exhibition at Art Basel 2018. The book includes texts by Professor Dawn Adès and Norman Rosenthal. It coincides with a broader re-evaluation of the importance of Matta internationally as well as of the influence of Duchamp on the work of 20th century artists. Edited and introduced by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer. Essays by Dawn Adès and Norman Rosenthal. Historic interview excerpt by Robert Motherwell. 90 pages with 7 illustrations. Softcover. ISBN: 978-3-905792-09-6
Illustrated catalog featuring full page color illustrations and rare documentary photographs.
Published by Galerie Gmurzynska in June 2018 to accompany a special cabinet exhibition at Art Basel 2018. The book includes texts by Professor Dawn Adès and Norman Rosenthal. It coincides with a broader re-evaluation of the importance of Matta internationally as well as of the influence of Duchamp on the work of 20th century artists.
Edited and introduced by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer.
Essays by Dawn Adès and Norman Rosenthal.
Historic interview excerpt by Robert Motherwell.
90 pages with 7 illustrations.
Softcover.
ISBN:
978-3-905792-09-6
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Still regularly painted big pictures. Être avec, for example,<br />
(1945) is mural-like at fifteen feet wide. 63 The desire<br />
physically and actively to engage the spectator, to<br />
eliminate the static encounter between the viewer and<br />
a picture hanging on the wall, was carried through into<br />
installations, such as that at the ICA in London in 1951,<br />
where the twelve paintings were hung continuously like<br />
a long mural. <strong>Matta</strong> held to the belief, formulated in his<br />
essay on <strong>Duchamp</strong>, that the image is an act, not a thing.<br />
“Art is a verb, more than an absolute; to art at full<br />
voltage frightens most people, awareness of reality is for<br />
them as dangerous as a live-wire (Rrose Sélavy).” 64<br />
Dawn Adès<br />
63. In 1977 three giant canvases were exhibited at <strong>Matta</strong> Coïgitum at the<br />
Hayward Gallery in London: “rarely seen”, as Joanna Drew noted in her preface,<br />
because few art galleries “can provide the space in which to show them”.<br />
64. Conversation with Peter de Francia <strong>Matta</strong> Coïgitum, op cit. p. 4<br />
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