Roberto Sebastian Matta

Galleria Maggiore opens the new exhibition season in a striking and fitting manner: on the occasion of the centenary of Roberto Sebastian Matta’s birth, a true homage to an artist of great importance for the early-20th-century avant-gardes—and, above all, for the post-war generation—unfolds in the Bolognese space.
A “displaced one,” as he liked to call himself, shaken and stirred by a profound existential process in constant motion, brought to an end only by his death in 2002 in Italy.
The exhibition examines the artist’s entire expressive trajectory: paintings, sculptures, and mixed techniques in which the body, space (both physical and psychological), and their relationship gave rise to a remarkably consistent vision. We are fully immersed in gesture, in the scents and vital flavors that pulse through a transcendent nature (as the Surrealists desired), and in a progressive appearance/disappearance of “stains,” understood as revealing lenses of another world, another “will,” a heartbeat almost biological in its capacity to generate new, vibrant material entanglements that remain astonishingly alive today.