Magritta Chair by Roberto Sebastian Matta
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Magritta Chair by Roberto Sebastian Matta
About the Item
- Creator:Roberto Matta (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 20.47 in (52 cm)Width: 40.16 in (102.01 cm)Depth: 34.25 in (87 cm)Seat Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1970
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor fading. fabric has got a hole in the black bowler rim; also there is a hole at the reverse of the chair. check images for details.
- Seller Location:Vienna, AT
- Reference Number:Seller: 011stDibs: LU9935890791
Roberto Matta
“The function of art,” the Surrealist Roberto Matta once stated, “is to unveil the enormous economic, cultural and emotional forces that materially interact in our lives and that constitute the real space in which we live.” In his paintings, Matta sought to expose those forces through the Surrealist practice of automatism, creating work in a free-associative state intended to conjure the unconscious.
After studying architecture in his native Chile, Matta, then 22, chose to pursue the field in Paris, where he mingled with stars of the avant-garde like Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dalí and Walter Gropius. In the late 1930s, he abandoned Paris, together with his job at Le Corbusier’s studio and (for a time) his career, for modern art’s new epicenter, New York City. There, he became a colleague of art legends like Marcel Duchamp and Arshile Gorky.
Although celebrated primarily for his work as a painter, Matta was an equally talented furniture designer. His furniture pieces, like his artworks, are the stuff of dreams. The back of his totem chair, for example, is composed of smiling, cartoonish creatures stacked on top of each other. In his MAgriTTA armchair, the top half of a plush green apple sticks out of large black bowler in homage to its namesake, the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte.
But perhaps the piece that most truly embodies his artistic philosophy is his 1966 Mallite modular system: a collection of spongy, undulating sofas and lounges that can be fitted together to form a puzzle-like room divider. The work, an original edition of which is in MoMA’s permanent collection, has in recent decades been a hard-to-find collectors’ item — until 2019, when Italian design brand Paradisoterrestre issued a reedition, available through Duplex.
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