BOOKS
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MATTA | Morfologie verbali
Notebook N° 1, 1936-1944
Year of publication: 1987
Publisher: Sistan Limited
pp. 282
28,5 x 33,5 cm
ISBN: 9788885908000
MATTA NOTEBOOK N°1, edited and produced by Germana Ferrari Matta, recounts the early years of Matta's artistic experience through original texts, surprising inserts and numerous reproductions of canvases and drawings. An investigation into the evolution of Matta's work in order to grasp his metamorphoses. For the first time, Matta opens his notebooks: sketches, memories, aphorisms and poetry. Texts, often unpublished, by the main witnesses of a hidden period of Surrealism: Lionel Abel, André Breton, Nicolas Calas, Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Jean, Charles D'Amours and others Dreier, Marcel Jean, Charles Duits, Max Ernst, Robert Lebel, Gordon Onslow Ford, William Rubin... are mixed with the writings and conversations of Matta. This work allows us to experience the emergence of one of the key figures of Surrealism and the determining influence of surrealist artists in exile on the New York school during the Second World War.
Presented in a layout worthy of the great Surrealist magazines, this book is also a catalogue of paintings and drawings from this period.
"Vi do ciò che ho potuto strappargli dal suo passato inghiottito.
Matta non rilegge mai i propri scritti, non riguarda mai troppo i suoi quadri, appena terminati, li volge verso il muro, esce a passeggiare nella vita e si pone altre interrogazioni.
È una sorgente sempre nuova e non ci si può mai bagnare due volte nello stesso Matta".
G. Ferrari
Agosto, 1986